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June 24, 2012 03:10 pm PDT

Entertainment industry to Japanese ISPs: we'll hand you a secret list of copyrighted works, and you have to block them

As part of Japan's batshit new 10-years-in-jail-for-uploading copyright law, the Recording Industry Ass. of Japan is demanding that ISPs install network filters that spy on all user activity and attempt to detect copyright infringements by comparing every user upload to a massive, secret database of "fingerprints" of copyrighted music, created by Gracenote. Those uploads would [...]


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