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NEWS: Japanese Government Aims to Impose Penalties for Downloading Illegal Books




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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:38 pm Reply with quote
OK, prosecuting people for on-line piracy as difficult that pirate can find legal loopholes or use different account names. That said, say we do start prosecuting more people. For those that pull the false copyright cards, will Japan implement the same penalties had the accused actually pirated a work?
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Asaaaasd



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 10:08 pm Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
For those that pull the false copyright cards, will Japan implement the same penalties had the accused actually pirated a work?

Obviously not. Piracy is seen as theft to most governments, and you a false accuser isn't punished as severely as a thief.
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Japan's Agency of Cultural Affairs revealed on Friday that it plans to instate a penalty for anyone who pays to download

Um, so this doesn't apply as long as you're not paying to download it? Or does paying for an internet connection which is then used to download illegal stuff constitute as paying to download?
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Just Passing Through



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:05 am Reply with quote
Japanese prisons must have a real undercrowding problem...
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:24 am Reply with quote
crosswithyou wrote:
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Japan's Agency of Cultural Affairs revealed on Friday that it plans to instate a penalty for anyone who pays to download

Um, so this doesn't apply as long as you're not paying to download it? Or does paying for an internet connection which is then used to download illegal stuff constitute as paying to download?


this is what i understood it as.

payign for internet is for using net. it wouldnt be applied to WHAT you download.

so any F2R (free to read) would effectively slip through cracks of law.
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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 2:00 am Reply with quote
Asaaaasd wrote:
Kadmos1 wrote:
For those that pull the false copyright cards, will Japan implement the same penalties had the accused actually pirated a work?

Obviously not. Piracy is seen as theft to most governments, and you a false accuser isn't punished as severely as a thief.

Be it a violent crime or piracy, I think a false accuser of said crime should get the same sentence as someone who committed the crime.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 7:31 pm Reply with quote
Hi guys, just wanted to point out that there's been a correction to the article. The bit about paying to download was a translation error. It's more like "downloading things you should pay for." Article is updated.
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