Against the backdrop of Comcast’s blocking of the popular peer-to-peer program BitTorrent, a Net neutrality bill in Congress and a Hollywood shout for World Wide Web service providers to stop illegal file-sharing, comes that news from Japan: Service providers are set to block Net service to heavy users of peer-to-peer software.

The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reports that Japan’s four major ISP organizations plan to mold a working group with copyright groups representing authors, composers, publishers and software developers to set up guidelines for disconnecting users who download from Winny and other popular P2P programs.

Under the agreement, copyright organizations would identify the IP addresses of users who are downloading their substance and supply the knowledge to the ISPs. The providers would soon after send a warning e-mail. whether the downloading continued, the ISP would disconnect the user temporarily, or even cancel the detail entirely.

No Privacy Concerns

It is a bold move that ISPs have been cautious about making thus far. Two

years ago, a Japanese ISP proposed cutting off users detected using Winny and other P2P software, but backed off after Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry regarded that as illegal World Wide Web snooping.

The current approach is different, says technology blogger George Ou, considering copyright holders merely need to download the P2P system, search for their subject matter and obtain a list of IP addresses serving the composition.

“This method doesn’t involve any of that politically dreaded DPI (deep-packet inspection),” Ou wrote. Indeed, it is now impossible for ISPs to examine the subject matter of P2P transfers, since the latest programs are “already fully encrypted at both the protocol and info level,” according to Ou, an outspoken opponent of Net-neutrality legislation.

Bandwidth Problem Solved

whether substance owners lurk as users on the systems, searching for and downloading their composition, they automatically get a list of IP addresses that provided the composition….

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