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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Boycott. Its the only solution. If you dont want to pay for proxy services..
it’s funny to see so many “Ban Imigration Greencard Outright Today” members in this thread which is supose to be caring and sharing.
Funnier still is to see so much of the net community being so narrow minded,hypocrytic and stereotyping ppl based on thier skin color/language/etc etc not to mention religion.Especially ppl that keep shouting thier 1st to 5th ammendment…s…
btw,do u guys realiz that everytime u finger-pointing some1,your index finger might point to others,but your middle,ring and little finger is actually pointing to ur self,not to mention ur thumb that point to God!
let’s not forget that usa is one of the country with biggest case of child sex abuse.they even go as far as importing vietnamese little girl/boy and keep them in the atic like a pet.and do i have to mention no.1 pop star?hehe.ocasionally we footage of americans in orange overall,being extradited to/from places like thailand/vietnam/philipines cos they couldnt afford russian/ukranian(white) victims.and recent case of merine that raped minor jap(which some of u called chinks) girls.ah…not to mention pedophile prists..bottom lines–it happen to every countries/race/ideology/etc etc.
funiest being the fact that technology had became sooo cheap that any asshole that *clearly* didnt go to school and cant differentiate between nationality and thier degradtory references.
the 1st one to post always has a tendency to b an asshole,but this one,has stunned me.i saw it as early as the 4th post,but then,he’s just so stupid that left me with nothing to mock. next time,please give me somting to work with….
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human traficking
it’s funny to see so many “Ban Imigration Greencard Outright Today” members in this thread which is supose to be caring and sharing.
Funnier still is to see so much of the net community being so narrow minded,hypocrytic and stereotyping ppl based on thier skin color/language/etc etc not to mention religion.Especially ppl that keep shouting thier 1st to 5th ammendment…s…
btw,do u guys realiz that everytime u finger-pointing some1,your index finger might point to others,but your middle,ring and little finger is actually pointing to ur self,not to mention ur thumb that point to God!
let’s not forget that usa is one of the country with biggest case of child s.x abuse.they even go as far as importing vietnamese little girl/boy and keep them in the atic like a pet.and do i have to mention no.1 pop star?hehe.ocasionally we footage of americans in orange overall,being extradited to/from places like thailand/vietnam/philipines cos they couldnt afford russian/ukranian(white) victims.and recent case of merine that raped minor jap(which some of u called chinks) girls.ah…not to mention pedophile prists..bottom lines–it happen to every countries/race/ideology/etc etc.
funiest being the fact that technology had became sooo cheap that any asshole that *clearly* didnt go to school and cant differentiate between nationality and thier degradtory references.
the 1st one to post always has a tendency to b an asshole,but this one,has stunned me.i saw it as early as the 4th post,but then,he’s just so stupid that left me with nothing to mock. next time,please give me somting to work with….
nice torrent for ur research:
deliver us from evil
human traficking
there is nothing anyone can do to stop the scene
Still can’t see how this can work. With the industries track record at getting it wrong, I can see the lawsuits coming as they disconnect the wrong user or a small business for something they didn’t do.
The internet is becoming a necessity now, not some luxury.
The media industry better be prepared to prove people’s so called copyright infringement in court.
so even if they ban internet users its still a major blow to them <_< though i cant say much but being also part of the file sharing people albeit in another country (philippines) it would still make a huge chain reaction to these people who are both major and minor affected by such a cause and its too also because no one can evade piracy its also a part of life that has started to rise ever since money became the only thing in life that makes the world go round i mean sure its also correct in a way for businesses to run but what about the common people who cant afford such things even how hard they work they wont still be able to enjoy the things they worked hard for … i mean if i could only afford their prices i wont stoop this low <_< and actually buy the real deal
sigh…I was afraid that would happen, the music/software/movie companies banding together. If the book *publishing houses* and the newspaper organizations jump on their bandwagon…they’ll have so much power nothing will stop them.
[quote comment="312325"]it’s funny to see so many “Ban Imigration Greencard Outright Today” members in this thread which is supose to be caring and sharing.
Funnier still is to see so much of the net community being so narrow minded,hypocrytic and stereotyping ppl based on thier skin color/language/etc etc not to mention religion.Especially ppl that keep shouting thier 1st to 5th ammendment…s…
btw,do u guys realiz that everytime u finger-pointing some1,your index finger might point to others,but your middle,ring and little finger is actually pointing to ur self,not to mention ur thumb that point to God!
let’s not forget that usa is one of the country with biggest case of child s.x abuse.they even go as far as importing vietnamese little girl/boy and keep them in the atic like a pet.and do i have to mention no.1 pop star?hehe.ocasionally we footage of americans in orange overall,being extradited to/from places like thailand/vietnam/philipines cos they couldnt afford russian/ukranian(white) victims.and recent case of merine that raped minor jap(which some of u called chinks) girls.ah…not to mention pedophile prists..bottom lines–it happen to every countries/race/ideology/etc etc.
funiest being the fact that technology had became sooo cheap that any asshole that *clearly* didnt go to school and cant differentiate between nationality and thier degradtory references.
the 1st one to post always has a tendency to b an asshole,but this one,has stunned me.i saw it as early as the 4th post,but then,he’s just so stupid that left me with nothing to mock. next time,please give me somting to work with….
nice torrent for ur research:
deliver us from evil
human traficking[/quote]
nice rant
whenever I think of Japanese, I would immediately think of JEJA, Maria Ozawa, Yua Aida and all that 20 straight sex and kiddie porn.
How bad is it when ISP’s start banning their customers.
Anyone know which four ISPs they are talking about. Im sure NTT and YahooBB are two of the four, just dont know the other two.
[quote comment="312350"]Anyone know which four ISPs they are talking about. Im sure NTT and YahooBB are two of the four, just dont know the other two.[/quote]
Probably ImyorBitcha and paydToSarki
[quote comment="312011"]What a truly moronic strategy. ISPs should sell higher priced high volume subscriptions to filesharers, not turn them over on a silver plate to the competition.[/quote]
True; but the dumbasses think the money they are being paid off with from the mafIAA cartels is MORE than the money they are making from the subscribers who are persistently willing to pirate; hell, they may be, I don’t know.
But it is a horrible attack on all digital freedoms, and although I try to respect all people, they have dropped several notches in my esteem.
Incidently, Japan has the single fastest (/par with Sweden,Romania,and South Korea) internet on the planet; if they kick out those who transfer (large,movie&album size) files illegally, then what do they plan on using their infrastructure for?
I mean, their entire excuse for that sick robotics infatuation is that almost everybody in the country is old and about to die, drastically decreasing the population and necessitating an increase of robotics in the workforce;
So here they sit, with the fastest internet in the world, and soon to be their (significantly) lowest population in a half-century, thus currently sitting at and on the verge of enhancing the single best bandwidth/person on the planet, and they attack the single biggest bandwidth usage in the country.
Are these companies suicidal?
Do they like watching FiOs rot?
Are their thumbs stuck so far up their nose, they figure it would be funnier to reject the payments for high bandwidth from an entire country, so they can suck on some mini-care-package from thumbsucking record companies?
Honest to God, what are they gaining here? Even the IFPI was only making a fraction of a billion dollars a year; yet there are several rockstars etc. worth over a billion dollars. How does this make sense?
I am disgusted, angered, and disappointed.
You know in Japan you can buy used panties to smell from a vending machine. Don’t go downloading songs though!
Might come as a shock to some people this but the small percentage of subscribers who transfer large amounts of data often make ISPs no money at all. In fact, it’s often the case that it’s the average light use subscribers subsidising the few heavy users. ISPs are often only too happy to ditch the worst cases, after all, if they can skim the top 5% consumers they could probably support another 50% of your average light users with the same resources.
To those talking about encryption being the answer, you need to do some learning. The article suggests it’ll be the media companies running their “special detection software” (lol) performing the task of identifying acts of infringement, so they’ll just be sat at the other end of your transaction whilst your file-sharing client indiscriminatly fires out data to any client requesting it. There’s as good as nothing preventing the people you exchange data with working on behalf of the media industry, that is unless you’re content with forming miniscule groups of only a few people you implicitly trust. Encryption won’t do jack shit as all it does is prevent the ‘man in the middle’ (anyone/system on-route between you and your remote peer) decyphering your data.
[quote comment="312382"]You know in Japan you can buy used panties to smell from a vending machine. Don’t go downloading songs though![/quote]
That’s insane…
Here’s the dynamic:
Instead of buying a single CD for $20 (of which the artist may get 25 cents), I download fucking EVERYTHING.
Then, I LISTEN to it all.
Then, when I find the GOOD STUFF, I go to their show.
I buy their t-shirt, a button, whatever- because they make more from merchandise than they do from recording contracts and…
THEREIN LIES THE INDICTMENT.
they can use the anonymous
http://offsystem.sf.net
it is not trackable by traffic analysis and content analysis
just anonymous
The “banning law” was rejected in Sweden, for now.
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consumers, not fat dicks in suits, should make the laws.
im talkin about politicians.
did anybodys country let , i say ‘let’ the people have a vote on the cannabis laws?
no?
anyone?
now is the time.
im talkin ddos attacks, and letter bombs.
fuck ‘em.let them know roger aint gettin oppressed no more…….
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