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- choppergirl, on 03/15/2008, -2/+120That sucks because most of the bandwidth you get during torrent downloads comes from some Japanese guy logging in, who have ungodly amounts of bandwidth. You'll be poking along downloading a torrent at 20K, and then some Japanese guy logs in, and boom, just from him alone you'lll star getting 150K. I schedule my torrent downloads for when the Japanese are most likely to come online. It just shows how incredibly sucky US cable modem upload speeds are.
- lordno, on 03/15/2008, -8/+94Japan=Comcast
- akkibaba, on 03/15/2008, -7/+84***** the RIA.....J?
- secleinteer, on 03/15/2008, -1/+77Actually, that's correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAJ
- dtele, on 03/15/2008, -1/+60That is going to be a huge job monitoring peoples usage.
- Pokho, on 03/15/2008, -12/+70and one step closer to 1984
- ...---..., on 03/15/2008, -1/+59And - what will they do if they find that they are cutting off a large chunk of their own revenue by doing so...
- struck87, on 03/15/2008, -3/+45wait does that include tentacle porn
- pauliusuza, on 03/15/2008, -2/+38P2P = bad
Whaling = good - chromerium, on 03/15/2008, -1/+29What a joke. The Japanese are some of the most prolific downloaders there are, they might cut off a few thousand people but there will still be millions. They'll never make a dent in it :)
- Cutter20, on 03/15/2008, -2/+30They will take away Japanese people's Internet, and give it to the Chinese. Downloads for everyone!
- smacksaw, on 03/15/2008, -4/+31Yet another law that Japan won't enforce. It sounds drastic, but the fact is that it would be extremely disrespectful for certain groups to ignore the pleas of other groups. The whole thing works not because of harmony, simply the appearance of harmony. They will act concerned, but end up doing nothing about it.
- mGARANDEUR1, on 03/15/2008, -2/+20Well that would suck for the internet providers. Since so many people are downloading illegal content, they will have no business in a couple of years. By denying coverage to your customers, they will eventually terminate their own business.
- Zephkiel, on 03/15/2008, -4/+19Making a copy of something isn't stealing, it's copyright infringement.
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -7/+22[This comment is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Church of Scientology Japan]
- lordmetroid, on 03/15/2008, -2/+16If the entertainment industry can not see that their screwed property rights are illegitmate and goes on like this. Why should I ever buy another products from them again?
- GreyICE, on 03/15/2008, -2/+15Linux distros, free programs, gpl software, free license music/videos, promotional trailers, etc.?
- mahsah, on 03/15/2008, -2/+14As a person who regularly uses Japanese p2p, I can confirm that this will do ***** to stop illegal downloading. Japanese p2p has been encrypted for YEARS now. When Winny's security was broken, they wrote Share, since Share's has been broken they moved onto a new program called Perfect Dark.
These use encrypted node addresses and distributed sharing ala Freenet, which makes it impossible to tell who really orginally uploaded a file.
Here is a good article on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_%28P2P%29 - gothicform, on 03/15/2008, -2/+14The stupid thing is this law, like the others proposed applies to home users only so that commercial web outfit that constantly illegally rips off other people's work to make cheapo websites for clients stays up. Why can't we cut off ALL copyright infringers this way rather than just non commercial ones sitting at home? Oh yeah... everything is geared against the little man.
- jcani, on 03/15/2008, -1/+10b-but it's "research"
...for their tastebuds - EXreaction, on 03/15/2008, -2/+10This has nothing to do withe the country, just some of the ISP's (I do not know how many ISP choices they have in Japan, so I can't guess the scale).
- Professr, on 03/15/2008, -1/+9There are no women of the internet, only guys and FBI agents.
- n3tfury, on 03/15/2008, -3/+11"Is neiltc13 being offensive?"
no, just a fag. - enri, on 03/15/2008, -1/+9How do they plan to differentiate the legal downloads from the illegal ones?
- icepick314, on 03/15/2008, -1/+9how will this apply to non-Japanese citizen who uses Japanese ISP? especially US military and government workers living over there?
many people probably use NTT's fiber optic DSL but that's gonna be wasted on just internet surfing and email... - CCB0x45, on 03/15/2008, -1/+9Good, bring on the encryption. Cant stop that Japan! This is pointless, its just saying, go ahead and create a torrent like method that we cant stop.
- thetechkid, on 03/15/2008, -2/+10Don't worry it will all be rerouted to fanfics of gay male anime characters.
- maexus, on 03/15/2008, -1/+9You schedule your torrent downloads? I would imagine leaving it running 24/7 would be more efficient as you will always be ready for japanese super uploaders.
- carpespasm, on 03/15/2008, -0/+7not to mention it gives them something to easily trump up charges for if they ever want to go after you for a real crime.
- theaceoffire, on 03/15/2008, -0/+7Streaming video? I know I watch all my tv online now, from Hulu, youtube, Mega video, veoh, etc. That can't be good for their servers.
- CraigCarlyle, on 03/15/2008, -3/+9Constant monitoring = 1984
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -1/+7were going to see some revolutionary things in p2p in these next few years
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -1/+7Have you seen Japan. Its no joke. Japanese are all kind of freaky. For such a small nation they are both the biggest consumer and producer of Porn.
- apochcrypha, on 03/15/2008, -1/+7And people see Japan as the most perfect society? I would like to see what Anime nerds have to say about their favourite culture now.
The Japanese discriminate against their Korean minority. They do not allow immigration of anyone foreign, one can only work there temporarily.
Just because they have better tech than Americans and better cellular phones doesn't make them a perfect society! They're far from it! Monitoring Internet usage is only the beginning - magus_melchior, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5It'll be hard (if not impossible) to distinguish legitimate P2P transmissions from copyright infringement. IMO the Japanese media companies are complaining even more loudly for a technological solution that doesn't exist.
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5hehehehehe
- Shady77, on 03/15/2008, -2/+7In other news, the percentage of Bittorrent clients requiring transport encryption has suddenly shot up to 99% on Japanese ip's.
- dualityim, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5Seriously? You don't see how this is different?
Do you know how people are sent to prison? There's this thing called the legal process, where the prosecution must gather evidence in legal ways (no illegal searches and seizures) to convict the individual of theft.
What happens when governments and private enterprises work together to gather illegal, privacy-encroaching evidence in order to take away some of the individual's rights? Are we to allow governments to listen to our internet traffic and seize damning evidence from it without any warrants and probable cause? Is this the same thing as the government collecting legal evidence to send someone to prison? - palehorse864, on 03/15/2008, -2/+7Wrong, it actually reminds me more of senkyuhyaku hachijushi.
- techresearcher, on 03/15/2008, -1/+6What?
- bjornski, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5Because he doesn't have to figure anything out. Just open his wallet.
- techresearcher, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5You are not a digger.
- eFiniTi, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5Because google's services are voluntary while the government's services are not.
- Zephkiel, on 03/15/2008, -0/+4At what point in my previous statement did I suggest it was legally acceptable to pirate? I was just pointing out that piracy isn't stealing.
- lovestospooge, on 03/15/2008, -2/+6Deep Packet Inspection
- graemee, on 03/15/2008, -1/+5Damn you, shhh
- dustinadamsmith, on 03/15/2008, -1/+5HA HA! Yeah right. Good luck with that fellas. If they actually did that stupid *****, about half to 2/3 of all the internet traffic in the whole ***** country will instantly cease. The only reason why most people pay for their ridiculously overpriced broadband in the first place, is so they can download *****. To me, it's like an oil company selling me gas and then telling me that if I put it in a engine of any kind, they will quit selling me gas. What the ***** else do I need it for!!! ***** stupid.
- DarkDx, on 03/15/2008, -0/+4IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.
- DocCochran, on 03/15/2008, -2/+6Hm, get my internet taken away or pay $3,500 per illegally downloaded song. I know which one I'd pick. The RIAA is ridiculous. ***** them.
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