Japanese ISPs Agree to Ban Pirates from the Internet
Written by enigmax on March 15, 2008Following a huge increase in complaints from the music, movie and software industries, the four major Japanese ISP organizations have agreed that they will work with copyright holders to track down copyright infringing file-sharers and disconnect them from the internet.
In 2006, a Japanese ISP decided to plan measures to stop their subscribers using file-sharing software, by tracking their activities and disconnecting them from the Internet. The plan didn’t come to fruition as the government stepped in and said that such monitoring might have privacy implications.
Now, under huge pressure from the movie, music and software industries, the four major ISP organizations in Japan are at it again, and have agreed to take drastic action against online pirates.
According to the report in Yomiuri Shimbun, the agreement would see copyright holders tracking down file-sharers on the Internet using “special detection software” and then notifying ISPs of alleged infringers. ISPs would first send out emailed warnings to those traced, then interrupt the Internet connection if action to cease the activity isn’t taken. For persistent breaches, the ISP would ultimately terminate the accounts of its subscribers.
These four major ISP organizations - which include Telecom Service Association and the Telecommunications Carriers Association - are made up of around 1,000 other ISPs, a large portion of the Japanese market. In collaboration with the copyright holders, the ISPs will set up a panel in April to decide exactly how the system should operate.
Right now, there is a lot discussion surrounding the suggestion that persistent file-sharers could be banned from the internet. So far there have been proposals in France, the UK and Australia.
During December last year we reported that the number of internet users file-sharing in Japan had increased by a 180% in a single year.
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[quote comment="312225"]Encrypt your torrents my Japanese friends.[/quote]
Encrypt your torrents my Japanese buddies!
Haha, I love the people posting about 10Mbit and 16Mbit connections …
ADSL at the moment is about 47Mbit, but most of us have pretty cheap fiber 100Mbit connections
They throttled torrents for a while now, but as anything online - there are ways around that :)
[quote comment="312152"]The entertainment and software industries are powerful and have lots of money. Face it. Most of the people who share files do not have money and that is why the are “sharing”. If it is copyrighted material that is shared, it is illegal. More individuals in these industries are demanding their share of the pie from electronic media. Expect more crackdowns as the companies try to maximize their profits. More web crawling software. More lawsuits. Lawyers REALLY like money too.[/quote]
You’re not the sharpest pencil in the box, are you, sweetie?
‘Ineffective’ is far too generous of a word to describe the industry’s “crackdown” on filesharing. The Pirate Bay and HttpShare experienced a record number of visitors after getting “blocked” from Danish and Isreali ISPs, the latter even being forced to upgrade their server to cope with all the traffic. The once ubiquitous anti-P2P juggernaut, MediaDefender, has been struck down deader than a can of spam for their ill-conceived war against filesharing. Even its *parent company* is circling the drain. Comcast is certifiably fux0r3d, simultaneously under investigation by the FCC for blocking BitTorrent usage and facing several class action lawsuits. Sandvine Inc., likewise, finds itself riding the train to Screwedville, with sales down 88%.
And, now what? Nothing but a stillborn agreement between Japan’s four major ISP organisations and the foolhardy dinosaurs of Old Media as they continue down their path to extinction.
Do the software, music, and movie industries of have a lot of money? They sure do, and they’re throwing it to the wind as fast as they possibly can. But, do they have *power*…?
No! God, no! Are you kidding me?
When it comes to fighting P2P - an unwinnable war if there ever was one - they’re about as powerful as an aenemic kitten.
You can try to build them up as big, scary boogeymen all you want. Really. Go right ahead.
But at the end of the day, the facts fly right in your face. The proverbial Emperor is wearing no clothes.
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This won’t hurt the ISP’s like you guys think it will. Only a fraction of the customers are in this hardcore. The casual uploaders/downloaders will probably stop, and everyone else (the majority) won’t be affected at all.
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Tell that to Tele2 and Eircom, two prominent ISPs that are fighting against being forced to block The Pirate Bay and filter P2P by the IFPI. Tell that to the ISP in Dubai that reversed their decision to block Mininova after customers complained and threatned to switch to another service provider. Most of all, you can tell that to my buttcheeks as you kiss my ass.
If putting the breaks on filesharing was as simple as sending out a few preliminary a cease & desist emails, than P2P would be a non-issue.
Wake up and smell the coffee, sleepyhead.
This is truly moronic, and a sad consequence to the livelihood of the Internet, but then I guess when nobody will make a stand against them, the outcome is inevitable.
This is just one of their propaganda tactics, to wear down through sheer volume of complaints. Why not just tell them to shut up and either ignore them or sue them for harassment.
Rabid monkeys should be put down, not encouraged.
Good, time for the pirates to face the fact they are committing crimes.
Shut down all P2P networks that allow people to share copyrighted material.
Oh yes, because they can’t eventually find a way around it.
We ALWAYS find ways around crap. This is just making life more complicated for everyone.
They are not fighting file sharing because of losing profits. They do it out of malicious hearts to wield their power, gain control, cause misery and suffering, and make tidy profits at the same time (bottom line).
They would have nothing at all if not for many years of criminal theft, unmitigated greed, and racketeering. Why would anyone pander to this quasi-legal subhuman entity? I certainly wouldn’t. I tell you why. Bribery, threat and fear.
It would be awesome if someone could compile a list of good ISPs in Tokyo/Japan.
I live in Tokyo and don’t feel like being “banned” from the Internet for downloading a TV show I can’t watch here.
Japan is so weak in resisting corporate pressure. People are so complacent here and take whatever the companies demand. Hence, people work 50-60 hours a week, 6 days a week, with few vacations, for the same pay people make working 40 hours a week elsewhere.
[quote comment="312248"]Good, time for the pirates to face the fact they are committing crimes.
Shut down all P2P networks that allow people to share copyrighted material.[/quote]
Thieves who call others thieves lack credibility
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Shut down all P2P networks that allow people to share copyrighted material.[/quote]
Do you advocate shutting down the Internet, sweetums? Because that’s what shutting down P2P networks would entail.
Or, owing to your apparent nature of being dumber than a thumbtack, did you fail to think your comment through?
Dear Tokyo-ite. Greetings from Australia. We appreciate all your hard work, and I understand your concern.
I’m sure some of the smart people in Japan will find ways around any such problem. I just hope you don’t have contracts with such ISPs. If so, and people actually get banned, I hope they refuse to pay out their contracts.
Hmm, “special detection software” eh. Sure sounds impressive. :-D
I don’t really see how the proposed actions of these ISPs are really going to be any different than policies many ISPs have had running for years? Maybe if they go all-out and start kicking tons of subscribers off it might make a small dent, though I’d be surprised if it ever amounted to much more than that.
Calm, calm, friends
The ISPs are not stupid, it could be naming manoeuvre of distraction… and yes, for sure some naive will be sacrificed to the altar of the pagan(copyright holders) gods.
For some reason, I am beginning to see a big smile from an internet entrepeneur somewhere in the world: A way to tunnel the connection without the ISPs finding out your filesharing experience.
For now, we have proxies, and other similar techie features. I can only imagine what is in store for web 3.0, web 4.0 and beyond. The sky is the limit, if there is such thing in the internet era.
[quote comment="312105"]> Filesharing is under attack in every
> place around the world. We file
> sharers need unity - not prejudice
>- in these times.
Wen need to organize since our enemy is organized. We need to quickly identify providers that try to censor out private information exchange. We need to leave them in thousands and hurt their MI friendly businesses. On the other side, we need to support providers that take our side and join them in thousands.
Any provider pigs that actively conduct MI friendly censorship need to go bankrupt. Quickly. To set a mark for other providers not to fuck with their customers and censor their communication. They live off our fees and have to serve us as we dictate. If they think that the MI is a better client than filesharers, they should try doing business without filesharers and with filesharers informing their friends and families of the censorship going on.
The moves the industry made in the last few years seem rather suicidal. Now obviously the providers decided to join the suicide train with no obvious goal. Like tha nazis who already 1942 knew they will lose the war, but kept killing and fighting for no obvious reason.[/quote]
I AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get those Japs away from their PC games and back into the workforce. That’s the strategy!
Egalitarian
Naturally
Conforming
Radicals
Yearning
Prophetically
Troubled
Endlessly
Denying
It goes something like this.
Write an encryption enabled P2P software. release for use. while the fool are working on it, another one is being written. they crack it, we release the next one. the cycle continues
I’m about to move to cable internet. yes, it’s becos this DSL is too damn slow. and no, I do not need the extra bandwidth to check emails or watch youtube videos
This is relevant to my interests.
Switch ISP’s immediately. If there is no alternative downgrade your package to the lowest speed you can live with. If you can be satified or put up with it for a while, go back to dial up. I guarantee if everyone did that - things would change very quickly. ISP’s might just have a change of heart.
Many ISPs had to submit to media pressure. Look at UK for instance…still 512k upload speeds and no sign of getting faster. Or what about Australia?
This fact however doesn’t mean the ISPs are activly going to enforce it.
Calling Japanese “Japs” or making rude comments about child porn does not bring anything productive to the discussion. Why not supporting their cause?
Share and Winny already exists ^_^.
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