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NEWS: Tokyo Man Found Guilty of Anime File-Sharing

Good to see you can still get away with murder in Japan but file-sharing'll get you murphed out.

Good to see you can still get away with murder in Japan but file-sharing'll get you murphed out.

Since these guys were arrested there has been almost no drop off in availability of raws of any shows that I can tell.

And I might remind people that _downloading_ shows is still LEGAL in Japan. (It's illegal in the US, but not in Japan, despite new laws pending that will change that). If they thought this action will end up deterring raws from being uploaded to the internet one bit they're fooling themselves.

samuelp wrote:

Since these guys were arrested there has been almost no drop off in availability of raws of any shows that I can tell. And I might remind people that _downloading_ shows is still LEGAL in Japan. (It's illegal in the US, but not in Japan, despite new laws pending that will change that). If they thought this action will end up deterring raws from being uploaded to the internet one bit they're fooling themselves.

As I scour the net looking for pixies lately, I see more & more sites that have scans/subs saying if they are asked to remove stuff, they're keeping it down. It is affecting some people out there. Don't act like it isn't. If they nail a few more people, we'll probably see more & more people discover being lawabiding. Until this guy actually pulled that sentance, no one thought he'd get 18 months for uploading. He did. If his co-defs get similar, you might see a few more people slow down on the uploading.
Of course it wouldn't affect downloading. That's not illegal in Japan. They aren't breaking any law. They just found the stolen money-there's no law requiring they turn it in so why should they worry? It fell off a truck. But if more & more people get nervous & stop uploading, one might actually find titles unavailable. Particularly considering this is all for glory, not cash. It might be thrilling to shoplift or use drugs, but when it costs you your job because you go to jail at some point you will get it thru your thick skull to stop. One of my guys said he'd been with us for 4 yrs & he'd had enough. No more bucking the system. He just wanted his grant over. I spoke with a gal last fall-same thing, but she'd been ours for 15 yrs. It just took her a lot longer to figure out she wasn't going to beat the system. I had another last year who had notes about being difficult, in fact, he was argumentative ewhen I saw him the firsdt time, but the 2nd time-totally different story. He wanted us out of his life--tell him what to do, he'd do it.
At some point rebelling just for the sake of rebelling wears thin. One learns to pick one's battles.

Perfect Dark will be cracked. Give it time. If someone can write it, somone else can figure out a hole.

Fact is, all that'll happen to cappers in Japan to completely immunize them is to have them send raws to someone overseas who is the person who distributes it. A lot of groups already do this. All the capper does is cap the show, encode, upload over secure sftp to a server he/she rents in Toga, and uses that server to upload the raw to the net. It'd be nearly impossible to prosecute that, even in Japan. In fact, I'm not sure it'd even be illegal under Japanese law if they couldn't show direct evidence of the initial transfer from Japan.

You know, I bet if you've never lived here you think that Japanese people respect the law because of the low crime rate, right?
But outside of any train station in tokyo, the places with the most number of bicycles crammed together is always right underneath a sign that says "No bicycle parking". And I see policeman sometimes going around ticketing them, too.

Wow, you mean Japan is JUST LIKE the US on that? Everyone speeding until the cop shows up on the freeway? Everyone turning on a red light when the sigh says otherwise, so the officer just sits there handing out ticket after ticket?

If anything I worry more about Japan because if one believes their movies it seems half the population is killed in car crashes & if you collapse on the sidewalk everyone will just step around you & let you die.
And no one seems to know CPR.

Tomibiki wrote:

Good to see you can still get away with murder in Japan but file-sharing'll get you murphed out.

Hm yes this is a very intelligent observation.

Good to see you can still get away with murder in Japan but file-sharing'll get you murphed out.

Tomibiki wrote:

Good to see you can still get away with murder in Japan but file-sharing'll get you murphed out.

It's called the sad reality in our capitalist society where profits means more than people.

that law isnt gonna work out for sure, people are still going to download and upload anime. they can't catch everyone. what, there going to put everyone in jail for uploading one episode. might as well put everyone in jail.