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We got some huge news, on Japan's internet copyright fight, or anti-piracy fight, has
taken effect this October right now which makes uploading or downloading infringing
material illegal and may result in a jail sentence, right off the bat.
That including streaming materials, especially on YouTube.
This law simply means that streaming YouTube videos is illegal.
They could block the site if they wanted to. This is from TorrentFreak, not sure if you
heard about this site. TorrentFreak reports on Internet copyright
issues, piracy and electronic police state tactics on the web.
This is all thanks to the copyright owners, the Recording Industry Association of Japan
and their entertainment industry. They're saying they are in trouble, and got
the statistics on this, so they know all about it, and want to see these stats change.
So this legislation that was proposed months ago, that has taken effect today, is draconian.
Like Big Brother 1984, that's what this is right here.
So you get a two-year jail sentence, simply for uploading and downloading questionable
materials, and streaming them as well - just playing
them on your computer is incredible. You don't get three strikes or six strikes,
or chances to learn from all this, you get convicted and that's it.
Again, that is just incredible. For the folks in Japan, you need to fight
this. Because with this legislation on hand, which
has taken effect today, could allow your Internet provider to track what you do - what you upload,
download and streaming on your computer, which is incredible.
China's doing that, and Iran's doing that with its proposed National Intranet.
Let's continue, this is what ISPs in the country are planning to do.
"But to do this, they will be able to spy on Internet users' connections, and compare
data being transferred with digital fingerprints held in an external database."
Folks, that's Big Brother 1984, tracking everything you do.
Now, Japan is not one of the most repressive regimes in the world, such as China, North
Korea, Iran and Syria. Japan is a great country, and we respect the
people there. But there are certain things that we do not
like that they do, is to be able to track you over the Internet
Also, this is something that the U.S. has proposed doing in tracking terrorists, or
cybercrime, which is incredible. "That can only be achieve with the Internet
service providers who will be asked to integrate the system deeply into their networks."
So they are going to use an algorithm to compare what you're uploading and downloading to a
database. In this case, copyright owners give copies
of their works to these ISPs or anti-piracy providers
and when you upload or download something, it either gets blocked or tracked.
My prediction that this is going to be beginning, and this may get expanded outside Japan, and
onto the Internet I don't know about you, but I sense a Viacom-style
crackdown on YouTube right now. And when they flag stuff on YouTube for infringement,
they don't take the U.S. law into account, but Japan's own copyright law.
It's a possibility, but we need to be prepared for this.
And to the people of Japan: you need to protest this, because this is draconian.
This is not just the ISPs, but the Japanese regime's ability to spy on you, for the purpose
on fighting piracy on the Internet. Your Internet freedoms are bring sacrificed
for this, just like your freedoms are sacrificed to fight the Yakuza
that are causing problems in your country. This is just incredible.
So we definitely need to fight this, and get our Internet freedoms back.