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Re:Japan to criminalize DVD ripping and breaking DRM even fo... by jbermudes on Saturday December 04, 2010 @01:14AM (#1968678)
Interestingly enough, apparently ignorance of the law has been a big enough argument that this amendment is adding a section basically saying "if you know that it's illegal then you have no excuse", to which Japanese game developers are now adding of FBI warning-esque messages like those seen in American videorecordings: http://kotaku.com/5705055/this-new-warning-screen-means-hand...
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Re:Japan to criminalize DVD ripping and breaking DRM even fo... by jrockway on Saturday December 04, 2010 @02:52AM (#1968831)
Won't the warez community just get rid of that warning?

Also, I think it's funny that they are aiming the message at a demographic that can't read kanji but can decipher complex legalese.

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Re:Japan to criminalize DVD ripping and breaking DRM even fo... by ramchip on Saturday December 04, 2010 @10:11AM (#1969335)
The linked article only talks about DRM however, as far as I can see. It says "data protected by encryption" is the target of the new law.
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