Winny copiers to be cut off from Internet
The nation's four Internet provider organizations have agreed to forcibly cut the Internet connection of users found to repeatedly use Winny and other file-sharing programs to illegally copy gaming software and music, it was learned Friday.
Resorting to cutting off the Internet connection of copyright violators has been considered before but never resorted to over fears the practice might involve violations of privacy rights and the freedom of use of telecommunications.
A brief six-hour survey by a copyright organization monitoring the Internet found about 3.55 million examples of illegally copied gaming software, worth about 9.5 billion yen at regular software prices, and 610,000 examples of illegally copied music files, worth 440 million yen, that could be freely downloaded into personal computers using such software, the sources said.
And what's will all those made up numbers? Would you have used each and every piece of software if you only could buy it? Probably not. But even pirates help a company by doing PR and creating a large user base. Just ask MS if it would disable every illegal Windows copy. They would not, because too many users would switch to Linux.
Would you have bought that DVD if you wouldn't have watched the movie online first? Probably not. So, think a little before presenting numbers.