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story category Illegal File Sharing May Be Banned in Japan
ISPs crack down under pressure from entertainment industry
10:22AM Sunday Mar 16 2008 by KathrynV
tags: Fileswapping · business · privacy · world
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There are four major ISP organizations in Japan made up of 1000+ ISPs and they have all come to an agreement that they aren’t going to stand for any piracy in their country. They are banning all illegal file sharing by committing to shut down anyone caught using file sharing to infringe on copyrights.
"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."
There is some possibility that the ISPs will be unable to follow through with this method of cracking down on computer crime because of the privacy violations that the tracking software might cause. A panel will be put in place next month to better outline the details of the plan.

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texans20
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Won't catch me

Unless ISPs are allowed to assume that a few gigabytes of encrypted nntp packets = piracy.
james1

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Re: Won't catch me

Or unless Texas magically becomes part of Japan.

Rexter
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March 16th, @12:16PM

Re: Won't catch me

Why not, it's already part of Mexico.
james1

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Re: Won't catch me

No it isnt! You guys stole it fair and square.

Rexter
YeeHaw

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Re: Won't catch me

Yea, but we've given it back in the last 50 years or so, along with California, and Arizona. If you don't believe me, just look at the collapsing schools, hospitals, and economies. Oh, yea, you can look at the census too.
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Rexter
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Good luck

This is great! We're about to see a new age of encryption, and P2P strength. It's gonna be great, and best of all here in the US, we'll benefit from this new robustness without any interruption to my file sharing.

Sweet!!!!

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TK Junk Mail
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Re: Good luck

said by Rexter See Profile :

This is great! We're about to see a new age of encryption, and P2P strength. It's gonna be great, and best of all here in the US, we'll benefit from this new robustness without any interruption to my file sharing.

Sweet!!!!

Keep living in your dream world. Encryption won't prevent detection of P2P use. And WHERE your data is going to & coming from will allow detection as easily as WHAT is being transmitted. So, if laws are passed allowing ISPs to boot you, like they have in France and will soon in the UK & Sweden. Or if ISPs voluntarily agree due to political pressures like in Japan, even in the absence of laws, they will eventually throttle copyright infringing activities.
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YeeHaw

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Re: Good luck

People have been talking like you for over 10 years. Eventually this..... Eventually that...... bla bla bla.....Who is living in a dream?
jc100

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Junk mail offers JUNK ADVICE again. Japan is the top technological nation with home 100mbit and gigabits being common place. Do you for one minute believe the ISPS will be able to stop piracy here? Unless users are capped, it's a pipe dream to think someone with this throughput doesn't have any other means that p2p itself.

surfinusa
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Eventually they will make a fix to the hole in the system I am sure of it. But when? That is the question. Until then I don't see pirates stop downloading and sharing illegal ( according to local laws) and I don't see them stop developing new ways to circumvent the new anti-piracy measures ISP's and RIAA will start implementing.

It's a never ending battle and as long as people Pirate they won't stop trying to beat the system.

I think we all know this by now.

Mashiki
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said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

Keep living in your dream world. Encryption won't prevent detection of P2P use. And WHERE your data is going to & coming from will allow detection as easily as WHAT is being transmitted. So, if laws are passed allowing ISPs to boot you, like they have in France and will soon in the UK & Sweden. Or if ISPs voluntarily agree due to political pressures like in Japan, even in the absence of laws, they will eventually throttle copyright infringing activities.
Encrypted networks are in use all over Japan now, Universities and business being the main source at the moment. It doesn't matter if you know where a packet is going to or from or what it looks like. Since p2p is used in business in Japan too to transfer well nearly everything as well. I expect this to expand all-be-it slowly.

While people rollover generally for corporations in Japan, weird things can happen if you start tinkering with their technology.
jjeffeory

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March 16th, @02:10PM

And your point is??? P2P is not illegal. Finding out where your data goes and comes from will not allow detection of pirated material. It will only tell you where that computer connected. Any more information would be circumstantial and if you go down that line of reasoning you're begging the question and likely commiting several other logical fallacies... Basically, you're making way too many leaps. Witch hunt much?

swhx7
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said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

Encryption won't prevent detection of P2P use.

Correct. But not all p2p is copyright infringement.

said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

And WHERE your data is going to & coming from will allow detection as easily as WHAT is being transmitted.

Whoa! Hold on a minute there. You've already detected that the customer is using p2p, but not whether it is illegal. Now you're saying that by additionally considering the traffic destination, you can tell whether it's copyright infringement or not?

How?

The destination of traffic doesn't confirm copyright infringement unless you've proved that everything at that destination is infringing.

supergirl

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»www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/15/ja···sharers/

Japanese ISPs To Ban File Sharers

Actually, users sharing illegal files get a warning, maybe a second warning, then a ban from Internet use.

It is aimed at users of "Winny", the most popular file sharing program in Japan. It WILL start in April according to the article.

Japan is not banning file sharing just people illegally file sharing that get caught multiple times.

I'm sure the Japanese will get around encryption.
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C0deZer0
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Re: Good luck

said by supergirl See Profile :

I'm sure the Japanese will get around encryption.
Considering all the shit they invented in the last twenty to thirty years, beating encryption would be nothing to them.

factchecker

@cox.net

said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

Encryption won't prevent detection of P2P use. And WHERE your data is going to & coming from will allow detection as easily as WHAT is being transmitted.
You are HALF correct... Encryption will not hide traffic flows. Even encrypted P2P traffic looks like unencrypted P2P traffic. Anyone with access to something like Cisco's NetFlow tools can easily spot P2P traffic.

You are incorrect in asserting that seeing the traffic flow will allow you to know "WHAT is being transmitted." Unless the encryption is crap and easily cracked, you won't be able to examine the contents of the packets and won't be able to know what is being shared.

TK Junk Mail
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Re: Good luck

said by factchecker :

said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

Encryption won't prevent detection of P2P use. And WHERE your data is going to & coming from will allow detection as easily as WHAT is being transmitted.
You are HALF correct... Encryption will not hide traffic flows. Even encrypted P2P traffic looks like unencrypted P2P traffic. Anyone with access to something like Cisco's NetFlow tools can easily spot P2P traffic.

You are incorrect in asserting that seeing the traffic flow will allow you to know "WHAT is being transmitted." Unless the encryption is crap and easily cracked, you won't be able to examine the contents of the packets and won't be able to know what is being shared.
You misread my statement. I didn't say they would see WHAT was being transmitted - just WHERE. Implied is that WHAT was being transmitted was seen when unencrypted.
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factchecker

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Re: Good luck

said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

You misread my statement. I didn't say they would see WHAT was being transmitted - just WHERE. Implied is that WHAT was being transmitted was seen when unencrypted.
Thanks for the clarification. In that case you are correct.
BF69

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said by Rexter See Profile :

This is great! We're about to see a new age of encryption, and P2P strength. It's gonna be great, and best of all here in the US, we'll benefit from this new robustness without any interruption to my file sharing.

Sweet!!!!

So you admit to being a theif? nice. Great morals you have. Any reason why you can't pay for your content? Even at minimum wage it's possible to do so.

Rexter
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March 16th, @12:12PM

Re: Good luck

Thanks for the assumption. You can go now.
BF69

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Re: Good luck

said by Rexter See Profile :

Thanks for the assumption. You can go now.
well if you're not stealing then there is no need to brag that one can get around any filters. Since the filters are there to ctach the thieves, why should it worry you to get around them if you are not doing anything illegal? Hmmmmmm.

Sorry but if someone brags about being able to get around a drug test then I am going to assume they are doing drugs.

Rexter
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Re: Good luck

Well you know what they say about ASSumptions, which I think applies well here. You are mixing issues. Stealing, and illegal are not the same thing. Refusing to comply with a set of rules that are designed by, and tilted in someone else's self-perceived favor is not stealing. Here is why I say this. Lets take two situations. #1 I download a movie, and watch it. #2 I Tivo a movie from Network TV, and watch it. Neither scenario places in, or takes money out of the studios pocket. Frankly they hate the idea of either one of these two scenarios. If they had they're way, I have to pay for it if I even thought of watching the movie. But the fact is that one of these methods happens to fit under the current rule of Copyright law, and the other doesn't. Frankly I don't give a rats ass, and have no moral issue, because neither of these actions are stealing.
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said by BF69 See Profile :

said by Rexter See Profile :

This is great! We're about to see a new age of encryption, and P2P strength. It's gonna be great, and best of all here in the US, we'll benefit from this new robustness without any interruption to my file sharing.

Sweet!!!!

So you admit to being a theif? nice. Great morals you have. Any reason why you can't pay for your content? Even at minimum wage it's possible to do so.
I'd like to live where you are if your minimum wage allows you to put aside money for entertainment.

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Re: Good luck

said by Sean See Profile :

said by BF69 See Profile :

said by Rexter See Profile :

This is great! We're about to see a new age of encryption, and P2P strength. It's gonna be great, and best of all here in the US, we'll benefit from this new robustness without any interruption to my file sharing.

Sweet!!!!

So you admit to being a theif? nice. Great morals you have. Any reason why you can't pay for your content? Even at minimum wage it's possible to do so.
I'd like to live where you are if your minimum wage allows you to put aside money for entertainment.
X2

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jester121

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Re: Good luck

If you're having trouble getting by on $50-60 per hour, you either need to work more hours or seriously re-evaluate your lifestyle.

Siko

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Illegal File Sharing May Be Banned in Japan

Illegal File Sharing May Be Banned in Japan

Rexter
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Re: Illegal File Sharing May Be Banned in Japan

Well I'm rooting for "WILL."

Red Dragon
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Cat and mouse ala blue box/ phone hackers

There goes the whole fan translation business. I wonder how exactly the technology will work. Also will some one have to actually look through the petabytes of data that stream through P2P? Then they have to prove that such data is illegal through a court before any action or strike can be put against a single person. I am quite sure that the first person to get nailed on one of these laws will have a few top rated layers flock to the case for both sides much like wiki leaks situation(even though they are completely different).

Its just going to turn into a cat and mouse game since before anyone gets the plug pulled they still have to prove the data is pirated and not the latest version of your preferred flavor of linux.
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swhx7
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Re: Cat and mouse ala blue box/ phone hackers

You may be assuming too much about how this kind of law may be implemented in Japan.

But you're onto the right issue: what are the standards or proof, and what protections will there be from harm based on false accusations?

The original article ( »www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20···1305.htm ) says that the accusations will come from copyright holders, and that the ISPs will form a group to decide how to implement the proposal. But the last paragraph calls into doubt whether proof of infringement will be required at all - it reads as if a mere accusation by the big coyright holder groups will cause the citizen to be denied internet access.

IHATEBELL2

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The end of ISP's in Japan

Very simple

BT=High Bandwith=Big money
Regular interner use=Low bandwith=Low money

That means that most people will go from their 16mb profile at $50-$60 to a regular 1mb profile at $5 a month, multilply that by the thousand for each ISP's and they all either gonna fold or embrace P2P technology.

THEY CAN'T AVOID FILESHARING they have to live with it.

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Re: The end of ISP's in Japan

said by IHATEBELL2 See Profile :

Very simple

BT=High Bandwith=Big money
Regular interner use=Low bandwith=Low money

That means that most people will go from their 16mb profile at $50-$60 to a regular 1mb profile at $5 a month, multilply that by the thousand for each ISP's and they all either gonna fold or embrace P2P technology.

THEY CAN'T AVOID FILESHARING they have to live with it.

True, its the demand that makes the ISP's offer higher tiers of service due to P2P and Pictures and MP3, DVD, You Tube.

Without the demand most users can live with a 1.5mbs connect.

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BF69

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said by IHATEBELL2 See Profile :

Very simple

BT=High Bandwith=Big money
Regular interner use=Low bandwith=Low money

That means that most people will go from their 16mb profile at $50-$60 to a regular 1mb profile at $5 a month, multilply that by the thousand for each ISP's and they all either gonna fold or embrace P2P technology.

THEY CAN'T AVOID FILESHARING they have to live with it.

You are so ingorant on things work it isn't even funny. ISPs don't make money by their subscibers using MORE bandwidth. Thye make money by them using LESS. Show me an ISP who average user uses 5 GB a month and another one whose average user uses 100 GB a month and I can tell you that the first one make TONS more money.
Dan888

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Won't work there

Unlike here, they have Share, and the more recent Perfect Dark networks. Both of these use full encryption.

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_(P2P)
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Dark_(P2P)
Dan888

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Re: Won't work there

with links, it did not extend the link to the end ) so copy and paste links
DSL Oberst

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*SHRUG*

Not my country, not my problem.
Now, if we conquer them again like we did in WW2 and make them into a satrapy, sure, I'll care.
But otherwise, meh. Not news.
jjeffeory

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Re: *SHRUG*

Heaven forbid we care about something that's going on in the WORLD. You know, being aware of something that could come bite you in the a**... Kind of like, WWII... And I'm sure WE didn't do anything in WW2 unless you're approaching 100...
DSL Oberst

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Re: *SHRUG*

said by jjeffeory See Profile :

Heaven forbid we care about something that's going on in the WORLD. You know, being aware of something that could come bite you in the a**... Kind of like, WWII... And I'm sure WE didn't do anything in WW2 unless you're approaching 100...
Historically, WW2 only affected us because Japan decided to go for Pearl Harbor. That's it. We were happy to do economic deals with the Nazis and the Italian Fascists - read up on FDR's admiration for Mussolini sometime. They weren't doing anything in what we consider our backyard - the Americas. Nor were we interested in what the Japanese were doing before they decided our Pacific territories were tasty. So long as we were left alone, Japan and their allies could do whatever the hell they wanted.

Why should it be any different now? Defend the Americas and let all else go hang; so long as they don't come looking for a fight, I don't see why we should go picking one.
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Their product is overpriced garbage

When will the RIAA just wake up and realize they have garbage for a product, the price is over rated and sales are down for one reason. No one wants to buy the garbage? I love all these quotes how much they are losing when they can't even put a finger on the exact amount being downloaded.

C0deZer0
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Re: Their product is overpriced garbage

said by rid0617 See Profile :

When will the RIAA just wake up and realize they have garbage for a product, the price is over rated and sales are down for one reason. No one wants to buy the garbage? I love all these quotes how much they are losing when they can't even put a finger on the exact amount being downloaded.
Just look at the significant ramp-up in the number of one-hit wonders that RIAA labels have now compared to even five years ago, much less ten or more years ago.

Much like Hollywood, RIAA is shit scared of trying anything actually brand new, so what do they do? Take someone that looks mildly attractive and wrote a few words together on a cocktail napkin, airbrush the hell out of their photos and resample the hell out of their voice samples to prefabricated loops, and you have something your 12-year-old spoiled brats go positively nuts for, driving their parents insane until they purchase them that $25 music CD that's rootkitted to hell and back.

Then once the hit's over, the "artist" in this case now realizes that the contract was for about half a dozen of these. If they're smart (and few are), they then choose to put out remixes of their work that are an attempt to sound like original, new works, and thus a new album. Repeat ad nauseum.

BabyBear
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quote:
on the Internet using “special detection software”
A.K.A. Random number generator.

ZeroZ

@comcast.net

Virtual Network Technology

People can always use software to set up VLANs(Virtual Local Area Network) over the internet. People aren't directly connected(physically) but that are considered to be connected. It bypasses firewalls and other protection software on both sides. So it doesn't matter if you physically block people because they can virtually connect and still transfer.

anon420

@dc-uoit.net

Re: Virtual Network Technology

Your thinking of vpn's. (Virtual private networks)

Vlans are used for segmenting multiple lans on a switch.
Shoreline

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Santa Clara, CA

agreement?

The only question I have for this agreement is "how much did it cost?".

Anyways, as others mentioned in regards to encryption, it works just fine in Japan. I also know I can rely on the same two or three pundits to spew pro-**AA garbage, and it's like watching a cheerleader. At least put on the dress and take out the pom-poms so I can either look up your dress or point and laugh.

dvd536
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,jp XDCC bots

I wonder if this will cause those ultra fast XDCC bots on gigabit links to dry up
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elios

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Re: ,jp XDCC bots

nope just start using SSLed XDCC

classicmovie

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hey

Godzilla coming!

packetscan
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This is how it starts

Scare people in to not using something they are paying for with FUD. out standing! Now you have users whom don't know right from wrong and would rather not deal with it at all and walk away from that carrier or hell even the computer..
What's the use of searching the net if something you can do over the link could get you jail time.

This is only the start of Censoring on the Internet.

Soon we'll only be allowed to visit sites approved by the government.

WEEEEEeeeee
/sarcasm
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LeeRich

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Interesting Start

It's an interesting idea and the way ISPs plan on doing it allows them to steer clear of any allegations that they are "spying" on customers. All that happens is that content makers tell the ISPs who are downloading pirated content (information they get from looking at download queues for copyrighted material) and then ISPs take action. I mean it's a good way to go about it. P2P does take a toll on networks, especially small ISPs and ISPs that provide service to rural areas. Here are some slides that Brett Glass, owner if Lariat, an ISP serving Laramie, WY and what he had to say about P2P.

»www.brettglass.com/ITIF/
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