Japanese ISPs To Ban File Sharers

[webyugioh]

Japan has decided to beat France and the United Kingdom (both who have similar proposals) to become the first country to ban file sharers from the internet.

Oddly the agreement to do so has not come from the Japanese Government, but from Japan’s four internet service provider organizations after pressure (not surprisingly) from the record and movie industries. According to Torrent Freak, the agreement would see copyright holders tracking down file-sharers on the Internet using “special detection software” and then notifying ISPs of alleged infringers. File sharers will initially receive a warning for a first offense, then be disconnected for subsequent offenses, eventually be disconnected from the internet permanently (it wasn’t clear whether the agreement is a three strikes proposal).

The process will formally commence in April and will primarily target users of Winny, the most popular file sharing network in Japan.

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Following 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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[mb01]

People will just start using Megaupload/Rapidshare type sites alot more then. They will never stop people downloading movies/music etc.

 

[CockroachMan]

I don't understand.. what is being defined as a "file-sharer" here?

Only programs like eMule and BitTorrent? Or also websites like Megaupload?
Anyway.. there's always another way to distribute piracy.. IRC is not a file sharing software, but people still use it to send files.. worst case you can send stuff through email! Only way to stop it is by completely cutting off the Internet

 

[MystikEkoez]

With no one in Japan being able to share files, how am I gonna get my daily dose of Japanese content?!

 

[Twiffles]

They're trying to get rid of Winny and Share again! Bastards... D:

 

[whatsa]

I'm seeing a business opportunity here, if this goes through. A new, 'free' (libre, not gratis) ISP independant of the major players could do well under these circumstances, if they were to provide reliable, high speed services. It would take a lot of capital though, perhaps, because one wouldn't be able to just hire a pipe from the big ISPs.

 

[Deleted User]

This is terrible news worldwide. What it is saying is that movie, software and music companies (or anyone claiming to work for such companies) will have the right to scan your bandwidth and downloads without any fear of reprisal. I think ISP's will tell these companies to quietly fuck off and remind them that they (they the ISP's) are not enforcers of copyright law. I think the threat of financial loss that would be incourred by such activities will enough for the ISP's to say no to these companies.
It will be a great blow to your rights and privacy. The amount of power that would be handed over to companies would be too great and there would be some form of retaliation by internet users on these companies.
It's not as if nobodies going to movies. Just look at the ridiculous amount of money films make on release. In the billions.

The entertainment industry wants control of the internet obviously. Do your part to make it not happen.

 

[kikuchiyo]

Winny isn't even that popular anymore.

There's a lot of subtext that's not in the story - Winny actually had a hole or a virus that spread through it that would share non-shared files - which lead to a lot of high profile cases of confidential information (from police computers for example), naked pictures, and in the case of one of my favorite web comics, Afuganisu-tan, comics, out into the wild.

Thus there is a huge push to get Winny out. The internet cafe I visit directly bans it. And we had a police officer come to our culture hall and deliver a lecture about Internet security, and Winny was one of the topics he talked about before I fell asleep.

Anyway, I primarily use Bittorrent here - as far as I have seen it hasn't gotten much attention in Japan yet. People seem to mostly use limewire and that kind of thing. And I download a lot of stuff via BT, and have never had a problem with my ISP (asahi net).

As for getting content - I feel like most of the stuff people in Western countries download comes from ex-pats/foreigners in Japan, not Japanese people (J-Pop Suki is my prime example). Since BT isn't big here outside of them, those wells won't dry up. And I sincerely doubt I will get any trouble from my ISP for my BT use (though if I suddenly stop posting here, I guess you'll know what happened).

 

[gblock247]

Eh the world is going to hell in a handbasket, we all just need to pitch in and move to PirateBay lol, and Kiku I love your sig btw

 

[jesterscourt]

Wouldn't encrypting that data shield them? Anyhow, as long as there is software to detect stuff like this, there is always a workaround or masking technology.

 

[Dominator]

The main question Is does it affect the japanese rom sharing and ban rapidshare and file factory (and others) for French and UK users.... I don't understand' how its work in fact....



edit; I see winny, biut i don't use winny

 

[Regiiko]

RIAA: O snap, which country should we fuck over next, what with our $25,000/hour lawyers and shit? I know! Let's fuck over Japan, them fuckers got some fast internet so they download more faster than other people! Fuckin dangerous, these buggers! Hmm, now how shall we do this? I know, let's just offer the ISPs some sort of financial incentive, and if they don't take it, we'll just blackmail em anyway, seeing as that worked in Sweden or whatever that weird Scandinavian place was called.
Japan: Oh fuck ...

 

[Jaejae]

If they touch BitTorrent, Usenet or FTP, I'm going to be pissed.
They do that, and my fucking tagalong of a country is sure to follow.

 

[Mangofett]

Noooooo... Who's gonna seed me at 700kb/s on torrent now? ):

 

[Twiffles]

Noooooo... Who's gonna seed me at 700kb/s on torrent now? ):

Anon will.

 

[scubersteve]

where will i get my OSTs?!?!?!

 

[nando]

so is the RIAA planning to supplement money lost to ISPs for losing costumers?

ISPs signing on to this are stupid if they are willing to lose money in order for greedy organizations to make more money.

 

[Bob Evil]

Two words for you :

Data Havens

 

[Twiffles]

I can imagine "American ISPs to Ban File Sharers". >_>

 

[Bob Evil]

I can imagine "American ISPs to Ban File Sharers". >_>

More like "America to ban everything".