Anti-Downloading Law Hits Japan, Up To 2 Years in Prison
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sverek
son of a ...
scatman839
I have seen many places, as well as locals telling me, that they won't be paying attention to streaming of videos though.
PCElite
lol and they laugh at China
Mikedogg
Clamp down as much as you like, it ain't gonna stop it; barely slow it for that matter.
I'll just leave this here. :flip:
kanej2007
Poor old sverek. 🙁
XBEAST
Hopefully this laws hits US and EU as well.
Zboe
So let make pirating a crime and fill our already over full jails with even more non violent offenders.
Prohibition in the U.S. failed, the war on drugs has been a failure for 40 years now. What makes you think the Government could fight pirates any better? I mean really...When are people like you going to realize that criminalizing BS like this does absolutely nothing and runs up more worthless Government spending in the process. You aren't solving a damn thing with legislation like this, instead your ripping families apart and putting more burden on taxpayers that cannot afford it.
Mikedogg
^Spot on. Someone had to say it.
Brasky
/sarcasm?
zaeb
how shell i put this. complitely retarded action that cant be more retarded. there r more presing concernes then catching ppl how r downloading pirated stuff like hunger. how many hunger ppl and children r in the world. might focus on that instead of getting the rich richer. ppl need to rise.
GeniusPr0
Hahaha, Canada makes a tax instead and protects its people 🙂.
bobdude
cool and when it does YOU can pay ALL the taxes when there serving time
perosmct
when it will come to eu, with money i escaped from paying terabytes of data, movies, music and games, i will build an armory in my house and then come to arrest me, i'll not be back like terminator, i will be there to kick your @$$... 😉
AbjectBlitz
Dude, WTF is wrong with you?
BLEH!
This.
As a musician, as I understand the business currently:
There's no money in traditional record sales any more really, at least not through major labels. Things like Bandcamp are the way forward, as that way, the artist gets 90% of the profits rather than 5% from a record deal. Touring makes artists far more money than record sales, with merch sales being more important than ever.
Japan is definitely going in the wrong direction with this.
sverek
In Japan, a 14 year old boy got into jail for creating an "exploit" (shutting down pc over local network) and putting on website. Another 15 year old got in jail by putting copyright material on his blog.
I wonder if police or government in Japan have any idea if they putting "right" people in jail.
There people who seeds terabytes of data via torrent and p2p anonymously in Japan, there people who posting exploits, and they doing fine so far as they do it behind encrypted connection.
Its always those poor people, that got caught with obvious proof. However maximum damage they did is no more than 100 downloads.
I just hope this will fail as it did in USA. Getting 1000000+ people into jail cause they downloaded stupid track from youtube... its just stupid and painful to see.
Not to mention its their own tax money being used against them to hunt them down.
Extraordinary
Get off the internet right now
StewieTech
Stupid law!
WindtalkerCS
I don't think it is even a new development. I'd argue that it's been like that for a long long time. Shows have always been the moneymakers.
IcE
Well something has to be done. There are economic consequences from copyright theft. Nobody can really quantify exactly how large they are, but they're still there. Jail is a silly punishment though.
