modemac writes “Four major Japanese telecom organizations, which represent ‘about 1,000 major and smaller’ domestic ISPs, have concurred to forcibly cut the World wide web connection of filesharers. They’re specifically targeting users of the ‘Winny’ program, trading copied gaming software and music. The article says that a new set of ISP guidelines will be drawn up on how to cut off users who ‘leak illegally copied material onto the Net.’”
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