{"id":28903,"date":"2012-06-21T12:13:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=28903"},"modified":"2012-06-21T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:52:00","slug":"japan-passes-digital-piracy-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/japan-passes-digital-piracy-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Passes Digital Piracy Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>This new law criminalizes &#8220;ripping&#8221; personal copies of commercial DVDs and Blu-rays with copy protection, and outlaws the Japanese possession of &#8220;region free&#8221; DVD and Blu-ray players and software that bypasses media copy protection and region restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2012-06-21\/law-penalizing-downloaders-criminalizing-ripping-passes-in-japan\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28912,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28903\/revisions\/28912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}