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NEWS: 3 Arrested in Japan for Spreading Anime via Share Program

If they crack Share, I'd surmise that would devastate the fansubber's ability to fansub. Still, millions of people, both in and out of the country probably use it, it'd be hard to pinpoint exactly who's uploading what.

Well,well,well... this is a new development,isn't it? Yea boys and girls,the day is fast approaching when Japanese p2p networks will no longer exist and fansub raws' will resort to the primitive days of relying on some video release as a raw source. So,you'll ultimately start to see them released at a much slower rate and subbing groups will begin dropping like flies during neighborhood pesticide season. And,maybe,just MAYBE... fans will actually buy Anime and support the domestic industry. But all i can tell youu is... You'd better start learning Japanese quick!!!

504NOSON wrote:

Well,well,well... this is a new development,isn't it? Yea boys and girls,the day is fast approaching when Japanese p2p networks will no longer exist and fansub raws' will resort to the primitive days of relying on some video release as a raw source. So,you'll ultimately start to see them released at a much slower rate and subbing groups will begin dropping like flies during neighborhood pesticide season. And,maybe,just MAYBE... fans will actually buy Anime and support the domestic industry. But all i can tell youu is... You'd better start learning Japanese quick!!!

Unfortunately over the past few months new devices such as the friio have appeared on the grey market, which allows for direct copying of the digital television transport streams... Already most of the biggest fansub groups have switched to using this as a source of raws instead of the slower (and lower quality) p2p networks.

So all this would end up doing is stopping the smaller groups from fansubbing and less popular shows would go unsubbed.

Also, although the story didn't mention it explicitly, remember that DOWNLOADING is still legal in Japan, and although share uses a cache system like all p2p networks, there is no precedent in Japan for prosecuting only based on files being shared after you downloaded them. The people arrested here (and the people previously arrested for winny) were all identified as the ORIGINAL sources for files, i.e. the original uploader/cappers.

And, actually, to be brutally honest, all this will do is push the development and user-base of "perfect dark"... and there's no way they're cracking that one any time soon, it's built like fort knox.

And, actually, to be brutally honest, all this will do is push the development and user-base of "perfect dark"... and there's no way they're cracking that one any time soon, it's built like fort knox.

Good, now they are cracking down on illegal downloading there, too.

If P2P's are giving them so much trouble why don't they just torrent?