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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