Forum Settings
Forums

Nationwide Roundup of Illegal Uploaders In Japan

New
Nov 30, 2009 5:38 AM
#1

Offline
Feb 2008
4384
According to NHK, Japanese Police conducted a wholesale arrest of the internet users who uploaded illegal files through a software called "Share". Ten people ranging from 23 to 57 years old were arrested and one is under investigation the last one was arrested (Dec 1st) by Kyoto Police. There is no interaction among them and the police charged the eleven individually. This is the first time Japanese Police made a nationwide act against the illegal file sharing.

List of the anime-related suspects:
57 year old jobless man, arrested for sharing "Hikaru no Go"
44 year old system engineer, arrested for sharing movies and anime (unspecified)
40 year old jobless man, arrested for sharing "Dragon Ball Kai"
37 year old prefectural employee, arrested for sharing "Mobile Suit Gundam 00"
30 year old arcade clerk, arrested for TV anime (unspecified)
23 year old postal clerk, arrested for sharing "Lucky ☆ Star"
23 year old jobless man, arrested for sharing "Ranma ½" and Dragon Quest 9

Sources: NHK, CTV, Chunichi, Sankei, TBS
dtshykNov 30, 2009 8:47 PM
This topic has been locked and is no longer available for discussion.
Pages (3) [1] 2 3 »
Nov 30, 2009 5:44 AM
#2

Offline
Jul 2008
242
Oh snapz, this could be the beginning of some bad news for torrentz and what not....or it could just be nothing, IDK.
Nov 30, 2009 5:45 AM
#3
Offline
Jan 2009
47
Yes, the police was right - illegal files are illegal.

Yes, I [and 'some' of us] download the stuff that those heros upload.

*mindscrew*
Nov 30, 2009 5:47 AM
#4

Offline
Jan 2008
4847
Too much internet bullshit going on this year. Pirate Bay down, UK internet laws getting more fucked up, Japanese police actually arresting people for once, lots of fucked up shit and I dont like it, I DONT LIKE IT ONE BIT.
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol
Nov 30, 2009 5:54 AM
#5
Offline
Jan 2009
47
Beatnik said:
Too much internet bullshit going on this year. Pirate Bay down, UK internet laws getting more fucked up, Japanese police actually arresting people for once, lots of fucked up shit and I dont like it, I DONT LIKE IT ONE BIT.


Don't forget that French law - one year ban of Internet if downloaded illegal files.
Nov 30, 2009 5:56 AM
#6

Offline
Oct 2008
4667
this makes me ANNOY
Nov 30, 2009 6:08 AM
#7

Offline
Feb 2007
2910
qwerty_ said:
Beatnik said:
Too much internet bullshit going on this year. Pirate Bay down, UK internet laws getting more fucked up, Japanese police actually arresting people for once, lots of fucked up shit and I dont like it, I DONT LIKE IT ONE BIT.


Don't forget that French law - one year ban of Internet if downloaded illegal files.


And Mininova has been forced to delete pretty much all of their torrents a few days ago.

I think one of my blogger friends gets his RAWS from the program Share, so this piece of news might be bad for him. So yeah...

BigSimo said:
this makes me ANNOY
BlueYoshiNov 30, 2009 6:13 AM
Nov 30, 2009 6:16 AM
#8

Offline
Jan 2008
4847
Dudes, the UK are trying to ban you off the net FOR LIFE. Cant get more fucked up than that.
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol
Nov 30, 2009 6:22 AM
#9
Offline
Dec 2008
118
"30 year old arcade clerk, arrested for unknown TV anime"

I want to know what that is now! I'll be thinking about it all day. How could they not know?
Nov 30, 2009 6:22 AM
Offline
Nov 2008
514
This is bad. No more anime. :(
Nov 30, 2009 6:24 AM
Offline
Oct 2009
2123
i think something like this was bound to happen sooner or later to be honest
Nov 30, 2009 6:27 AM

Offline
Mar 2008
127
dvp89 said:
This is bad. No more anime. :(


let's just see how this goes? good chance this is just another one-shot

Nov 30, 2009 6:47 AM

Offline
Jan 2009
162
57 year old..still owns anime huh?
u should give it to your grandchild..

Nov 30, 2009 6:47 AM

Offline
Oct 2007
2300
Beatnik said:
Dudes, the UK are trying to ban you off the net FOR LIFE. Cant get more fucked up than that.

Yeah that's true and there's also the new Internet tax that the douches in Parliament are trying to implement. There's a bloody tax for everything in the UK (>_<)!
Signature removed. Please follow the signature rules, as defined in the Site & Forum Guidelines.
Nov 30, 2009 7:00 AM

Offline
Oct 2008
168
all this legally thing on Internet is getting scary... without our japanese "heroes" uploading things we (the non-japanese otaku) wil die D:

OK,no, we won't, but things can get hard D:
Nov 30, 2009 7:04 AM

Offline
Sep 2008
4039
kokoku said:
57 year old..still owns anime huh?
u should give it to your grandchild..

57 is way too early to have grandchildren. Many people have their own little kids at that age.
Also, why are you watching anime then? You're not a kid anymore. Being 23 years old, you should be much closer mentally to 57 than to, say, 12.
Nov 30, 2009 7:11 AM

Offline
Aug 2008
714
dtshyk said:
... police charged the eleven individually.


I'd assume I'm the only one who finds this funny.
脱ぎません!_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

Nov 30, 2009 7:12 AM

Offline
Oct 2009
94
This sounds scary..sounds like it'll be harder to see anime now nd seems like the gov't is trying to control the internet..those fuck face
Nov 30, 2009 7:25 AM

Offline
Jan 2008
4847
JadeMatrix said:
dtshyk said:
... police charged the eleven individually.


I'd assume I'm the only one who finds this funny.


I thought of that too, but it would be funnier if they were busted for downloadiing that anime specifically.

LOL, that would be hilarious.
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol
Nov 30, 2009 7:36 AM
Offline
Apr 2008
588
piracy will still go on
Nov 30, 2009 7:38 AM

Offline
Nov 2007
1073
10 people..out of how many that upload?

Deathnosis said:
piracy will still go on
Nov 30, 2009 7:44 AM

Offline
Oct 2008
642
DX damn... =O


Nov 30, 2009 7:52 AM

Offline
Mar 2007
4616
As long as TokyoTosho doesn't get shut down, who cares.

And even if it does, there's always Nyaa, or datorrents, etc. Stuff like this is unfortunate for those caught, but ultimately pointless.
You've come a long way, baby.
Nov 30, 2009 7:56 AM

Offline
Apr 2009
1530
The end of torrents is near! In the days to come you will have to buy your anime from local distributors!

This is a serious post. You're not allowed to delete it.
Nov 30, 2009 8:01 AM

Offline
Apr 2008
77
IMO they're purely trying to make an example out of those ten, like in the US with those few people that get charged hundreds of thousands of dollars for downloading a handful of tracks. I doubt that this will actually change anything at all.
Nov 30, 2009 8:04 AM

Offline
Oct 2008
642
Death-Summoner said:
They can try to hunt it down but piracy will prevail!
*salutes the arrested uploaders *
lol try Phil.. piracy here is booming XO


Nov 30, 2009 8:11 AM
Offline
Dec 2008
80
Poor guys. I hope they won't get punished very badly.
Nov 30, 2009 8:12 AM

Offline
Feb 2008
5383
Deathnosis said:
piracy will still go on


the somali's manage to do the "other" kind of piracy just fine too....successfully it seems.

well, 10 people do not seem to be a whole lot, they probably will use them as examples and as deterrents. anything short of authoritarian control of information, technology, and the internet will not fix or even put a dent on piracy.
Nov 30, 2009 8:18 AM

Offline
Oct 2008
642
true. seeing this made me wish i haven't viewed this =\


Nov 30, 2009 8:36 AM

Offline
Mar 2009
57
My god, they took down 10 of our heroes!!!! And well, it's pretty hard to stop our heroes to upload by the way, internet cafes is their friends (if you know what i mean :P )
(>-.-)> d(>.<)b <(-.-<)
Nov 30, 2009 8:53 AM

Offline
Mar 2008
195
People! Download anime while you can x'D
We need to prepare to battle, get all munition and be ready! xD
[right][right]
Nov 30, 2009 8:56 AM
Offline
Jul 2009
3
Well if it was easier to get a hold of anime legally on streaming websites and download/renting websites, piracy wouldn't be such a big problem...

The only reason I download anime is because it's near impossible to get it here...unless I import a £50 DVD that I don't even understand :(
Nov 30, 2009 9:16 AM

Offline
Feb 2008
143
dtshyk said:
23 year old postal clerk, arrested for sharing "Lucky ☆ Star"

This guy deserved it, IMO.

But I'm not worried, has long has China and Russia don't chicken out, we will always have enough anime to go around.
Every time you make a typo, somebody in Zeta gets slapped.
Nov 30, 2009 9:25 AM

Offline
Apr 2009
4374
watching them online is the alternative
Nov 30, 2009 9:52 AM

Offline
Jan 2008
191
kokoku said:
57 year old..still owns anime huh?
u should give it to your grandchild..


i was amazed by this guy.. now i have one more excuse for my parents to stop bugging me about anime lol..

still this sounds bad for people who only can get their anime from internet..


Nov 30, 2009 9:55 AM

Offline
Mar 2008
195
smokes said:
watching them online is the alternative


I'm afraid to tell you that a lot of anime are being removed from the "video sharing websites", Veoh for example is deleting all the anime with subs, Myspace do the same when they found. The last option is Megavideo, but the limit is a pain for everybody xD

The last way is pay for memberships like Crunchyroll.
KhristinaNov 30, 2009 9:59 AM
[right][right]
Nov 30, 2009 10:01 AM

Offline
Mar 2007
1669
seishi-sama said:
kokoku said:
57 year old..still owns anime huh?
u should give it to your grandchild..

57 is way too early to have grandchildren. Many people have their own little kids at that age.
Also, why are you watching anime then? You're not a kid anymore. Being 23 years old, you should be much closer mentally to 57 than to, say, 12.


Which decade are you living in? 57 is far from being way too early to have grandchildren.
Nov 30, 2009 10:08 AM

Offline
Aug 2008
714
Khristina said:
The last option is Megavideo, but the limit is a pain for everybody xD
Illimitux.

But then, even Megavideo deletes stuff, so... Well, there'll always be an option somewhere out there.
脱ぎません!_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

Nov 30, 2009 10:19 AM

Offline
Mar 2008
195
JadeMatrix said:
Khristina said:
The last option is Megavideo, but the limit is a pain for everybody xD
Illimitux.

But then, even Megavideo deletes stuff, so... Well, there'll always be an option somewhere out there.


Yeah I use that, but its still bad for the blocked countries.
We hope so.
[right][right]
Nov 30, 2009 10:27 AM

Offline
May 2007
2130
I'm having trouble feeling sorry for these people, it is pretty common knowledge that uploading copyrighted videos to the internet is illegal, and they know what could happen.

And calling them heroes is an insult to real ones, like Superman, or the Flash.
My anime list
Nov 30, 2009 10:36 AM
Offline
Jun 2007
274
All hail these fallen heroes...

... who did nothing wrong morally. All research (that was not funded by IP-lobbyists) shows that if anything, pirated downloads help the authors of the pirated works rather than harming them.
Nov 30, 2009 10:42 AM
Offline
Nov 2009
3
Heh, the post says "arrested for sharing". Sharing is not illegal, it should have been for the massive diffusion of the anime. But what about non-japanese people? We download fansubs, not the original version. That should be legal somehow... and if it's not, they should make subbed editions for it's distribution outside japan.
Nov 30, 2009 10:57 AM

Offline
Nov 2008
39
THIS JUST CANT BE HAPPENING!!!!!!
Nov 30, 2009 11:08 AM

Offline
Apr 2008
619
Khristina said:
The last way is pay for memberships like Crunchyroll.


Or you have those pathetic groups that proclaim to be fansubs when they just mux CR scripts with a different raw and call it their own.
Nov 30, 2009 11:10 AM

Offline
Oct 2007
3811
This makes my day
Nov 30, 2009 11:13 AM

Offline
May 2008
255
CDRW said:
The end of torrents is near! In the days to come you will have to buy your anime from local distributors!

LOL
You know I really would, but how should I buy if there's no anime I would like, nor distributor for it??
Nov 30, 2009 11:33 AM

Offline
Apr 2008
1245
Am I the only one who has moral objections to locking 'good' people like that?

Only in Japan my friends. Only in Japan amoral bastards run the country and convince a judge who hardly knows how to use e-mail to convict them... :(
"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise"
Nov 30, 2009 11:37 AM

Offline
Apr 2009
1530
Remus_Lupa said:
Am I the only one who has moral objections to locking 'good' people like that?

Only in Japan my friends. Only in Japan amoral bastards run the country and convince a judge who hardly knows how to use e-mail to convict them... :(
Only...in...Japan?

Good? I can see "not guilty of significant crime" but "good"?

3rr0R said:
CDRW said:
The end of torrents is near! In the days to come you will have to buy your anime from local distributors!

LOL
You know I really would, but how should I buy if there's no anime I would like, nor distributor for it??
Hmm, it's difficult for you. My only suggestion would have to be e-bay, region 1, power adaptors.
This is a serious post. You're not allowed to delete it.
Nov 30, 2009 11:45 AM

Offline
Dec 2007
1472
mitamaking said:
And calling them heroes is an insult to real ones, like Superman, or the Flash.


I hope I'm not the only one who thought that calling Superman or The Flash "real" heroes seemed kinda...odd. Replace them with firefighters or doctors, maybe.

Anyways, these uploaders should be arrested for breaking the law. They were stupid enough to get caught, after all.
Signature removed. Please follow the signature rules, as defined in the Site & Forum Guidelines.
Nov 30, 2009 11:56 AM

Offline
Jul 2007
168
kokoku said:
57 year old..still owns anime huh?
u should give it to your grandchild..


ageism sucks
This topic has been locked and is no longer available for discussion.
Pages (3) [1] 2 3 »

More topics from this board

» 'Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi' Reveals Main Cast, 2025 Premiere

DatRandomDude - 37 minutes ago

0 by DatRandomDude »»
37 minutes ago

» Manga 'Toumei Otoko to Ningen Onna: Sonouchi Fuufu ni Naru Futari' Gets TV Anime in 2025

Nioxys - Yesterday

6 by Curiouswanderer »»
1 hour ago

» 'Class no Daikirai na Joshi to Kekkon suru Koto ni Natta.' Reveals Additional Staff, Second Promo

DatRandomDude - Yesterday

1 by Yumi_Sakigami »»
2 hours ago

» 'Nihon e Youkoso Elf-san.' Unveils Additional Staff, Main Promo

DatRandomDude - 3 hours ago

0 by DatRandomDude »»
3 hours ago

» Manga 'Uchuujin Muumuu' Receives TV Anime for 2025

DatRandomDude - 8 hours ago

1 by RobertBobert »»
6 hours ago
It’s time to ditch the text file.
Keep track of your anime easily by creating your own list.
Sign Up Login