http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/07/did-thi...erve-this/

Apparently a guy was arrested in Japan for downloading an episode of Kamen Rider.

Not downloading, uploading. And to a streaming site in California. That's how the police found him, apparently, a few months after the fact.

Here's the original article in Japanese, which is much more informative than the kotaku article:

http://www.rbbtoday.com/article/2011/07/27/79349.html

Omg, Japan is crazy about this 著作権法 :/

Everyone here pirates music like mad and isn't even aware it's piracy though.

Gf was shocked when I told her the mp3s she downloaded from a blog are illegal.

Es2Kay Wrote:Omg, Japan is crazy about this 著作権法 :/

So it seems. In my country, we are allowed to download whatever we want to, movies, media, mp3, software ... And we can even give away free copies to friends of self-burned CDs or DVDs. The only thing we are not allowed is to upload any copyright protected material or make profit by selling it. One who does it and is caught could face a 5 year internment, a payback of losses to media copyright holders, and the loss of all computers and media in possession in case of conviction.

Nagareboshi, guess were I have my proxy lol

Jarvik7 Wrote:Everyone here pirates music like mad and isn't even aware it's piracy though.

Reminds me of that PSA they show at movie theaters, where a girl in the audience snitches on the bootlegger/interpretative dancer, and then gets caught illegally downloading music.

JimmySeal Wrote:

Jarvik7 Wrote:Everyone here pirates music like mad and isn't even aware it's piracy though.

Reminds me of that PSA they show at movie theaters, where a girl in the audience snitches on the bootlegger/interpretative dancer, and then gets caught illegally downloading music.

Could you possibly mean NO MORE 映画泥棒？ I always enjoyed watching them before a film
Version 1
Version 2

Jarvik7 Wrote:Gf was shocked when I told her the mp3s she downloaded from a blog are illegal.

This is the problem. My mum phoned me up the other day telling me her sister told her she could watch the new Harry Potter film if she used something called Bit Torrent. It took me about 10 minutes to convince her that it's illegal. A lot of people, especially older generations, have only started becoming regular Internet users recently, and just aren't clued up.

Rights holders shouldn't be allowed to touch the public until there are some major changes in policy and education surrounding the matter. I imagine US citizens would echo this sentiment even more strongly, considering there are currently over 200,000 cases at various stages of the legal process. Apparently they're hoping for an average settlement of $2500. Nice to know what's valued in today's society.

Tori-kun Wrote:Nagareboshi, guess were I have my proxy lol

But isn't downloading only also allowed in Germany? I thought they had the same policies as we have. They could have changed it in recent years, though. Glad that the EU laws don't apply. I read some books about it, and Copyright / IP laws in general, Film Copyright in the European Union, Copyright and Multimedia Products - A Comparative Analysis, The Internationalisation of Copyright Law, Intellectual Property Strategies for a Dynamic World, all from Cambridge Press.