ISPs gang up on pirates in Japan
Offenders to have Internet connections cut off
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According to the unsourced report, the Telecom Service Assn., Telecommunications Carriers Assn. and two other orgs will join with their nearly 1,000 members to deny service to users who copy music and games with Winny and other popular file-sharing software. The organizations will work with copyright orgs to identify the worst of the pirates and cut off their Internet connections.
The four organizations will set up an advisory panel as early as next month to establish guidelines for the campaign, together with Jasrac (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers), ACCS (Assn. of Copyright for Computer Software) and other copyright orgs.
A similar attempt two years ago to rein in Internet piracy was stymied by telco officials due to privacy and freedom-of-information concerns.
To allays these concerns, the orgs plan to use detection software to ID pirates and send their IP addresses to their service providers. The providers will then notify the pirates to cease and desist.
If the pirates ignore the warning, the providers will cut off their Internet connection or cancel their service contracts.
Nearly 1.75 million Japanese use file-sharing software, many for downloading illegal copies of games and music.
