Japan: Outlawing Illegal Downloads · Global Voices
Chris Salzberg

id:seshiapple picks up [ja] comments from a thread on Japanese bulletin board 2-Channel in which IT journalist Daisuke Tsuda asks 2-channelers: “The outlawing of [illegal] downloads is almost finalized, do you have any questions?” As reported in an IT media article [ja] from Oct. 20th, Tsuda was the only member of a committee on the outlawing decision to oppose the idea, although many others, such as economist and blogger Nobuo Ikeda, have voiced similar concerns in the past. An early comment explains that the move would make downloading copyrighted files through services such as BitTorrent illegal.