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If you were to share a bunch of copyrighted material in the States, the MPAA/RIAA et. al. would come and threaten you with a law suit (and you'd settle out of c
by hkmurakami 10y ago
If you were to share a bunch of copyrighted material in the States, the MPAA/RIAA et. al. would come and threaten you with a law suit (and you'd settle out of court). In Japan, if you do the exact same thing, you will be arrested [1]. It's a difference in "what is normal".
[1] http://aramajapan.com/news/music/40-people-arrested-for-illegal-uploads-of-anime-and-dramas-this-past-week/16790/ http://aramajapan.com/news/music/40-people-arrested-for-ille...
- mikekchar 10y agoUnless it has changed recently (which is very possible) I believe Japan still only has criminal charges for "commercial" copyright infringement. In other words you need to make money off if it. I'm not familiar with the incident you linked to, so take my comment with a grain of salt. Edit: I am indeed wrong. The criminal penalties are spelled out here: http://www.cric.or.jp/english/csj/csj5.html http://www.cric.or.jp/english/csj/csj5.html I don't have time to see when it changed, but this is a pretty big modification from the last time I looked. Sigh...
- hkmurakami 10y agoI definitely recall 3 people being arrested back in 2012'ish for sharing a very large number of Nintendo 3DS ROMs on one of the Winny/Share/Perfect Dark platforms, so the change must have preceded this.
- mikekchar 10y agoYeah. Now that I think about it, I probably haven't paid attention to this since about 2007-2008. I'm getting old... I was thinking it was just the other day ;-)
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