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NEWS: 11 Arrested in Japan for Uploading via Share Program

... we really can't feel sorry for these guys. Though I am sure some will anyway, in their own self righteous smug nasally na-na sort of way.

And doucebag fanboys/girls should stop crying foul when people get caught and prosecuted in the process.

Now how much in fines will they have to pay in fines is what I wanna know and how much jail time are they looking at. I guess we'll see sometime down in the future.

A crime is a crime is a crime. Should the rule of law only be applied to those the self-proclaimed lords of the interweb deem worthy? Yeah, good luck with that.

Since security researchers also found flaws in Share in 2006, other successor applications are being developed.

The alternative is that this bill could hurt their economy further in the sense that people will be less willing to buy stuff they've never heard of or let alone know about. Many people in Japan are collectors....collectors want to know specifically what they are buying before they buy it. Banning downloads results in not knowing what they're getting, and so sales may decline.

Ah, I wonder how the odd notion of 'Intellectual Property' has managed to survive 100 years. It may be on it's last legs, but it's death throes sure are inconvenient.

That's why it's lasted 100 years. The law will have to adjust for electronic distribution, of course, but that doesn't mean it's a stupid idea. I would tell you it's a brilliant one.

Said people are usually the same ones who have never come up with anything intellectual that anyone would want to buy and therefore have no idea what they are talking about.

Imagine if all the animators and writers and directors were just doing this for free as a hobby in between salaryman jobs.

The reason intellectual property law exists is to keep them fully employed doing what they do best.

vashfanatic wrote:

That's why it's lasted 100 years. The law will have to adjust for electronic distribution, of course, but that doesn't mean it's a stupid idea. I would tell you it's a brilliant one.

Creating art, music, books, etc has occured for thousands of years. Only in the last hundred has there been an organised cartel to regulate (and worryingly, legislate) distribution.

This is the odd thing. The notion that simply having a good idea is grounds of long periods of payment for that idea. To make a slightly shaky physical object analogy: it is akin to walking up to a car, washing the window, and then demanding payment. The very notion of rendering a service, then legislating a change for it, seems utterly absurd. Unfortunately, it's been this way as long as anyone alive can remember, and very few even consider that it can be otherwise.

We'd get more beautiful works like Voices of a Distant Star? More work created out of love of creation rather than the intent and expectation to reap a profit? A few excellent shows rather than scads of mediocre ones is definitely a preferable state of affairs.

Interesting that few animators own their own IP (inmost cases studios get a small cut of proceeds from the production comittee, if anything). Or that, as the music industry has demonstrated, that IP law benefits defunct distributors but not the artists themselves.

Creating art, music, books, etc has occured for thousands of years. Only in the last hundred has there been an organised cartel to regulate (and worryingly, legislate) distribution.