Oh no, now people are gonna have to put their mp3s into zip files before they upload them somewhere. You did it japan, music piracy is over

Post edited on 24th Jun 2012, 11:12pm

>>15584
Actually after researching it a little it turns out uploading copyrighted content has carried a 10 year prison sentence there for a while, and it's not like that's stopped anything.

its a neat solution. but dont we already have the laws and technology to prosecute people for copyright infringement?

>>15591
>its a neat solution.
Are you serious dude?

Considering the heavy consumer culture its not that surprising.

That said I don't think it'll do shit all

>>15592
if he's the same guy from that other thread then trying to talk to him is pointless, don't even try

Copyright laws in Japan rarely do anything. I wouldn't worry.

>>15595
it's not even a new law, it's just them adding a punishment to something they declared illegal long ago. also yeah japanese media companies don't care about pursuing copyright infringement for the most part so whatever.

Japan enforces copyright laws at all?

>>15609

Most of the time they don't really care but I guess their record industries do since this is entirely their doing

http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/13/new-japanese-copyright-law-doesnt-seem-to-make-any-sense/

I guess it's not unheard of for pirates to have their homes raided by police in Japan.

>>15862
I saw that earlier today, it's pretty shocking, isn't it?

I believe most laws are simply an excuse for the authorities to arrest you when they want to. You're always breaking a law of some kind or another, and the authorities will find it and jail you for it.

>>15864
This is true.
There are tens of thousands of laws in the united stats, they can change from state to state or even by the city or county. and it's impossible for the average citizen to know them all.

Some of the 4chan anon as well as think some 2channers were involved in fighting those people. theres videos in english and japanese about that

>Next, the Agency for Cultural Affairs gives us a rather inspired ruling of “illegal download”: it claims that TV shows which have been broadcast and are not yet available on DVD or Blu-Ray may be downloaded freely, because they were broadcast for free! However, you can still be sued for piracy as a civil offense. Furthermore, there are existing criminal charges for people who upload such videos.

this kind of sounds like a good idea to me

>>15864
all laws really are to benefit one group of people (usually the wealthy, the powerful, the haves) at the expense of the others, the powerless majority
we are the have-nots

>>15931
Many, probably. But not all. I think laws against such things as killing people are probably best for everyone.

>>15941
No, they only benefit the people who do not wish to kill people.

>>15954
and people who do not wish to be killed

>>15931
many are created for the soul purpose of giving lawyers a reason to exist.

>>15923
one of the commenters suggested the law was crafted to accomodate the anime industry & not to piss off the doujin/comiket scene - out of respect for its' necesity and also out of not wanting to piss off such a beehive

>>15956
nice pun

http://blog.wired.it/otakunews/2012/07/20/japan-police-arrest-anti-drm-journalists.html

So apparently /journalists/ are being arrested for publishing how to back up and rip DVDs, because in doing so you're circumventing digital rights management software (DRM).