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3:08 pm - 06/21/2012

Law Penalizing Downloaders, Criminalizing Ripping Passes in Japan

On Wednesday, Japan's House of Councillors passed a bill into law that covers a variety of issues regarding the usage of documents and digital content. 233 of the Diet's 242 members cast votes on the law: 221 for and 12 against. As the bill had already passed the Diet's House of Representatives last Friday, the law will go into force on October 1.

The law includes sections outlawing the "ripping" of content, for personal use, that involves the bypassing of digital copy protection such as the CSS system on DVDs.

The law also includes a section added in committee that imposes a penalty to the already illegal act of knowingly downloading copyrighted material without permission, and those charged with illegal downloading will now face up to two years of prison or fines of up to 2 million yen (about US$25,400). The law also obligates national and local governments to educate minors on illegal download prevention.

Source: ANN
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ryandtw 21st-Jun-2012 01:37 pm (UTC)
Quite a sad day here.

But I've heard that there is at least one notable person who is against it - Daisuke Tsuda (@tsuda on twitter) (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fm20120621a3.html)...
chokingday 21st-Jun-2012 01:38 pm (UTC)
For all the other things I could say about this,
The law also obligates national and local governments to educate minors on illegal download prevention.
The phrase 'closing the gate after the horse has bolted' springs to mind.
janinebr 21st-Jun-2012 01:41 pm (UTC)
shit news ...
iceuck 21st-Jun-2012 01:46 pm (UTC)
outlawing the "ripping" of content, for personal use

even for personal use?? this might just kill CDs. if i can't rip a CD i bought then i'd just settle for digital downloads.
katzsong 21st-Jun-2012 01:52 pm (UTC)
yeah, I would rip my own cd/dvd in order to make copy for my personal use and keep the original cd/dvd pristine. And how would they know if I rip it? Would they make a random search or such?
So, they want us to buy physical AND digital copy??!....why so desperate?

Edited at 2012-06-21 01:53 pm (UTC)
katzsong 21st-Jun-2012 01:49 pm (UTC)
will this really affect us or our dear friends in Japan who provide the healthy dose of entertaining variety/music shows for us to see? and by us I mean the people who don't live in Japan and like to see Japan's tv show or such.
Coz if it's about dvd, there's a lot of foreign fans who live in foreign countries and being "generous" in sharing :3
fallblau_129 23rd-Jun-2012 11:21 am (UTC)
i'm curious about that, too... where will we get the shows that we can't really watch since were not living in japan>.
blovesit 21st-Jun-2012 01:51 pm (UTC)
this is insane
squallina 21st-Jun-2012 02:06 pm (UTC)
221 people in the Diet are obviously still carrying around one or both of these:





I say someone goes and pinches their entire physical music library.
rim1789 21st-Jun-2012 04:16 pm (UTC)
MET
bea_chan22 21st-Jun-2012 02:32 pm (UTC)
Seriously, it's like they're trying to isolate themselves (in this case, their music) to the world. Again. This is just sad. :(
lenra 21st-Jun-2012 02:41 pm (UTC)
Does Japanese dramas/varieties shows have licensed sites like dramafever or viki? 'cause i think after this it will be difficult to find Japanese tv shows out there.
eyeslikefirefly 21st-Jun-2012 04:33 pm (UTC)
There are a few jdramas (maybe 4?) on cruchyroll, but that's the only licensed site I've found that has them. :\
moka_n_waffles 21st-Jun-2012 02:54 pm (UTC)
So this actually means iPods are now illegal in Japan? How can they check if your entire library has been legally purchased from iTunes? And if you own the CD already, why purchasing the digital version too?!

And what about artists who aren't available in iTunes yet, for example? And what about old songs? Are people supposed to walk around with a discman and stacks of CDs? :/

Approving such a law is like going back 30 years on time, seriously...
takarai_karin 21st-Jun-2012 03:05 pm (UTC)
Is this why JapanCH is locking all their recent updated shows to mainland China only? It can be viewed with Chrome + Unblock Youku, but I can't fucking download them. Sad times indeed.
niwiwin 21st-Jun-2012 05:27 pm (UTC)
haven't gone to JapanCH in a while, for real?!! >__<
oh noooeessssss
hyde_my_dreams 21st-Jun-2012 03:06 pm (UTC)
Isn't there a difference between "ripping" a cd and simply "importing" a cd, though? I'm really against this bill, but I think people are also misunderstanding the conditions. It sounds like it will be illegal to rip a cd/dvd so that there is a shareable file on your computer, but it should still be fine to import a cd (I don't know anything about importing dvds) into your itunes or whichever music library that you use. When I import cds into my itunes from a cd, I don't think I can actually share the file that is in the library.
soundczech 21st-Jun-2012 03:28 pm (UTC)
ripping and importing are the same thing. you should be able to share songs you imported using iTunes, you just can't do it directly through iTunes, you have to find the mp3/m4a in your file browser and send it from the source.

you can't, however, share music that you purchased through iTunes.
k0dama 21st-Jun-2012 03:37 pm (UTC)
Allow people who've bought the CD or DVD to also download a digital copy. Crying over.
tomoeicemaiden 21st-Jun-2012 07:34 pm (UTC)
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izabera 21st-Jun-2012 04:35 pm (UTC)
//two years of prison or fines of up to 2 million yen//
Seriously? even if it's for your own personal use and you make absolutely no profit from reselling or copying it?
This is ridiculously harsh.

The dinosaurs who pass these laws have no understanding of the benefits of illegal downloads for the entertainment industry. If it wasn't for illegal downloads, I wouldn't have bought three quarters of the CDs and DVDs I own.
rima_no_yume 21st-Jun-2012 04:42 pm (UTC)
I never ever thought I'd say this, not in a million years ..
but THANK GOD I DON'T LIVE IN JAPAN!!!!
snow_meow 21st-Jun-2012 05:42 pm (UTC)
The way I see it, it only makes Japanese entertainment only be available in Japan.
They are never going to be able to go into the global market at the rate the Korean entertainment is going.

I don't understand how they plan to expand market share when their fanbase will be shrinking.
inachan89 21st-Jun-2012 05:45 pm (UTC)
oh man.....
fahrenheitjiro 21st-Jun-2012 05:49 pm (UTC)
Japan you used to be cool. :(
psychtiger 21st-Jun-2012 06:01 pm (UTC)
The first thing I thought of was how this could affect tourism in the future. A large portion of Japan's tourism comes from entertainment fans. Without anything new to interest a future foreign audience, the tourism industry will likely decline.
sadistic_dance 21st-Jun-2012 06:26 pm (UTC)
The law includes sections outlawing the "ripping" of content, for personal use
Stop.
very_pinku 21st-Jun-2012 07:18 pm (UTC)
Seriously, I wish they realize that due to their strict policies on videos already, it's shrinking the Japanese entertainment fan base fast,
while S. Korea's entertainment is starting to grow due to the accessibility.

I feel they need to improve ways to improve sales (I think people could learn a few things from how AKB48 sells their singles and such) instead of just shutting off everything all together.

I feel like we are going back to the days where Japan isolates themselves for hundreds of years lol.
matchafrapucino 21st-Jun-2012 08:02 pm (UTC)
I think the part about not being able to import cds you've bought is really, really dumb. I mean, some people still like to buy and have the discs even if they primarily listen to the tracks on their computer or an ipod.
As for actual piracy, well, in my humble opinion it is kind of like stealing, so no tears there from me. I do wish that someone would start making legal music and film downloads easily attainable to foreign fans, though.
nekobot01 21st-Jun-2012 08:28 pm (UTC)
And lo, the multinational media corporations hadeth a collective orgasm.

You KNOW all the big media companies want restrictions like this EVERYWHERE because they think that they can just legislate us back into the 1960s when you had to watch television when it aired and purchase your music on big expensive discs.

WHY DO MEDIA COMPANIES WANT TO MAKE CRIMINALS OF THEIR ENTIRE CUSTOMER BASE? IT MAKES NO SENSE!

Good luck with that, Japan.
raatkerani 22nd-Jun-2012 12:44 am (UTC)
probably because selling the albums and singles in 5-7 different version method failed to boost their record sales back to the CD glory days era.

asaphira_sachi 21st-Jun-2012 08:36 pm (UTC)
Why Japan? When the country isn't even the one with issues of massive illegal downloads? It should not even be on your priority list of crimes to convict.
fukkthedumbshyt This is me right now — 21st-Jun-2012 09:14 pm (UTC)
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I like how they are just so on the ball about copyright material but dragging their damn feet about child porn.
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