Japan Passes Digital Piracy Law
Japan’s House of Councillors formally approved a new copyright enforcement law on Wednesday that includes provisions criminalizing any circumvention of digital copy protection and adding penalties of up to two-years of imprisonment and two million yen in fines for knowingly downloading copyrighted material without authorization. The law will go into effect on October 1.
This new law criminalizes “ripping” personal copies of commercial DVDs and Blu-rays with copy protection, and outlaws the Japanese possession of “region free” DVD and Blu-ray players and software that bypasses media copy protection and region restrictions.
Source: Anime News Network
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Damn, will this effect American’s getting r2 DVDs and r1 blu-rays from Japan?
Is Japan going back to the stone-ages?
First Ishihara’s ridiculous law-passes (the guy himself wrote porno rape novels and their stilll being sold under his publisher.
Now region-free material(I assume DVDs and Games) is being banned. Is Japan determined to hurt their international trade by doing these types of things? Why make purchasing products for the consumer harder over-seas.
The companies usually determine if they want region-free products or not.