Japan will block Internet access for illegal file sharers

I don't really see this taking off are these ISP's going to back this because of pressure & lose millions of dollars in business? I don't think they will & will shoot it down again.They should look for a happy medium & not over kill the issue they are facing.

although the states get out of hand at least are liberties aren't being suppressed, thats like saying you cant buy gun because 50% of gun owners will use it to commit a crime....i just can't explain it but it is a sad day for Japanese cyber rights...

IMO they bite more than they can chew,that is if they bother too enforce it...... it could be lie the USoen day they pass a stupid law thats not enforced 10 years later they enforce it and we become a authoritarian state!

Mecha sugoi ne? :-P

This is really scary for P2P users in Japan. I really hope that never happens here in Australia.

Note: I am being ultra picky here but... Quote: "A report by the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper"... Shimbun & Newspaper mean the same thing. :-P Hehe.

Ha BS...

Gotta suck for those guys...

Block me and I go to another ISP...simple as that?

America is soon to follow.

"God Bless Canada" ;)

im not sure exactly what USA will do but i dont thing we will lose youtube. they constantly take copyrighted stuff off daily.

Incription. They need to incript their butts.

yea that would be their best bet. alot of it is personal video tho.

uh oh! i can see it now! the goverment is pro DRM! its a conspiracy i tell you! conspiracy! what is this world coming too!!!!

lol...ahem.

yea i mean thats kinda scary. i think its a good thing tho. realize it or not. police investigations involving younger people usually get solved with pics on myspace, facebook and other social posting sites.

Ha Ha Ha Ha i find this funny.

Ok even if they are able to keep track of the individuals they will just use a ip address gender bender and change there ip address to a untraceable address.

This most likely would deal in riots as well. Because i have had exchange students from japan and the thing you need to understand is the main reason why people pirate in japan is because software is more expensive there then here in the u.s.a and video games that cost us 60.00 here in the u.s.a go for 80.00 to 90.00 in japan quite a price difference.

So i would like to see them try to stop piracy it won't happen unless japan shuts down bittorrent.

NOT FUNNY! I live in Japan. And I get most of my TV shows from the net. Damn Dirty APES!!!!

When ISPs start policing and monitoring what you can and cannot use the internet for then it's cause for alarm.

Would using a proxy help keep a user's IP annonymous from an ISP if they were to download via blogs and file hosting websites?

this continues to get more outrageous, how much farther do they think they can push people?

Originally posted by tripplite:

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although the states get out of hand at least are liberties aren't being suppressed, thats like saying you cant buy gun because 50% of gun owners will use it to commit a crime....i just can't explain it but it is a sad day for Japanese cyber rights...

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No, its like saying if you buy a gun and shoot someone, we'll warn you a few times. Once you've shot a total of 4 people, we'll ban you from buying guns.

If it passes, this will work. Its not only one ISP, but its a ruling on ALL ISPs in Japan. I don't those hyper nerds will be like, "fine, I'll just cancel my internet and finally step outside." LOL, yeah right. Once they go a week without a MMO they'll be back on the net.

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America is soon to follow.

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Not a movie tripplite but i know that quote also came from the Death-Note Anime Series.

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Not a movie tripplite but i know that quote also came from the Death-Note Anime Series.

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Haha. SO i was right

Someone's gonna figure out how to hide the file's identity from the snoopies. Where there's a will there's a way.

This can be so easily circumvented by changing your IP..

But nevertheless, this is a sad development for Japan, the world's fastest Internet Connections have just been rendered MOOT.

Originally posted by Amir89:

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This can be so easily circumvented by changing your IP..

But nevertheless, this is a sad development for Japan, the world's fastest Internet Connections have just been rendered MOOT.

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Just to offer an experience that relates to this article very much...

Not too long ago I recieved two e-mails from my ISP within close proximity of each other for illegal downloads. They were passed on from one of the media copyright protection bodies which I will not name to retain my animosity.

However, these e-mails basically requested that I not do this again "cease and desist" or further action will be taken. Now, naturally I was really concerned. I thought I was going to get locked up! LOL! For days I researched these type of e-mails on the net and started to discover a very common theme with these e-mails. No matter who they were from (MPAA, RIAA, ESA etc.) they all had a very similar template.

Upon further reflection and reading the e-mail more closely, I started to realise that my fears were unfounded... First of all, the "further action" they mentioned was simply cancelling my internet account. Exactly as this news article states. Is that a major problem? Not really! I would just find a new ISP and open a new account. Second of all, one of the e-mails stated a name of a media file that I know 100% that I didn't download as I already owned this piece of media... ?

My point is that I think (I can not guarantee this) that these e-mails are automatically generated somehow (maybe some kind of trojan attached to the torrent) and sent to your host internet provider, quoting your "IP address" as that is all they can get from you. From there your Internet Provider passes on the e-mail to you as that is all that they can really do, thanks to a law called the "privacy act". I am not sure how far these copyright agencies need to go to actually obtain your personal details but I can only imagine it wouldn't be easy as our basic rights would be violated. It would be a costly exercise for them to do this as they would need to go down all the legal channels to obtain your details lawfully. If they ever did do this, it would be to prove a point and most certainly not to recover costs.

Sony has had a great year and it only just begun! They were able to kill HD DVD and now bribed the politicials of Japan to preserve the Japanese way.

ringwar& Ryu77, in the US, Comcast and Cox are policing their users now. I heard from a friend who still does some P2P and has Comcast. He uses a torrent then drasticlly reduces his upload and download speeds as well as fully encrypts his uploads and downloads. He also uses TOR to browse the torrent sites. I would at least cut the volume down and encrypt ASAP. They can most easily find you by your traffic load and torrent protocals. I think once you have been identified as a supernormal traffic user you are put on a list. Your traffic is randomly checked for P2P protocals. This happens robotically but they can tell you what you downloaded last week because the isp can read the P2P protocals. Once you are on the watch list, your days are numbered. Your IPSs will be collecting data for the watch list before they start doing anything else.

What about sending a Tor IP address to the tracker? What does that do? Just curious.

Originally posted by Ryu77:

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Just to offer an experience that relates to this article very much...

Not too long ago I recieved two e-mails from my ISP within close proximity of each other for illegal downloads. They were passed on from one of the media copyright protection bodies which I will not name to retain my animosity.

However, these e-mails basically requested that I not do this again "cease and desist" or further action will be taken. Now, naturally I was really concerned. I thought I was going to get locked up! LOL! For days I researched these type of e-mails on the net and started to discover a very common theme with these e-mails. No matter who they were from (MPAA, RIAA, ESA etc.) they all had a very similar template.

Upon further reflection and reading the e-mail more closely, I started to realise that my fears were unfounded... First of all, the "further action" they mentioned was simply cancelling my internet account. Exactly as this news article states. Is that a major problem? Not really! I would just find a new ISP and open a new account. Second of all, one of the e-mails stated a name of a media file that I know 100% that I didn't download as I already owned this piece of media... ?

My point is that I think (I can not guarantee this) that these e-mails are automatically generated somehow (maybe some kind of trojan attached to the torrent) and sent to your host internet provider, quoting your "IP address" as that is all they can get from you. From there your Internet Provider passes on the e-mail to you as that is all that they can really do, thanks to a law called the "privacy act". I am not sure how far these copyright agencies need to go to actually obtain your personal details but I can only imagine it wouldn't be easy as our basic rights would be violated. It would be a costly exercise for them to do this as they would need to go down all the legal channels to obtain your details lawfully. If they ever did do this, it would be to prove a point and most certainly not to recover costs.

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BS! I just received a letter from my internet provider with an attached letter from the ESA sayin i downloaded halo... then knew the timestamp and everything. Optimum says if it happens repeatedly they will shut down my internet......
gay!

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BS! I just received a letter from my internet provider with an attached letter from the ESA sayin i downloaded halo... then knew the timestamp and everything. Optimum says if it happens repeatedly they will shut down my internet......
gay!

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craftyzan, You could DL the torrent with TOR but TOR is way too slow to DL anything of any size and that would really be abusing TOR. If you like, you could set your torrent for 2 KB DL and 1 KB upload. That would be much faster than TOR and would slip below the cyber radar.

jordo947, I assume you have COX. You can try not DLing for a month or so and then start back up with full encryption. I would suggets Bit Comet. There are 3 settings for encryption off, ready and forced. You want the forced or on all the time setting. You will only send and accept encrypted packets. You might want to greatly reduce your UP and DL speeds. It is your volume that gets their attention. If you can greatly reduce your speeds they will bother someone else. If everything you do is encrypted they will not know what they are doing. I would also DL some legal stuff as well. Linux is particularly 'prickily' about ISPs interfearing with their business. If you get a second letter I would complain to them first before you complain to your ISP. By encrypting your flows, they can't tell what you are doing. That puts your ISP in a bind. It is illegal for ISPs to interfear with random torrent activity.

Did'nt the Japanese government learn anything from WWII and totalitarianism ?

they will never police it and its quite rich really! coming from a nation that have copied evreything. a political statement by the looks of it..