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EFF criticises Japan’s website-blocking proposals

2018/07/20

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has described the Japanese government’s proposals to introduce website-blocking as “cutting off your hand to deal with a paper cut”, in a?statement?released on Friday, July 13.
As reported by the?Japan Times,?earlier this year the Cabinet Office’s IP Strategy Headquarters?called for “emergency measures” to be implemented to address high levels of copyright infringement.
The government asked internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict access to piracy websites including Mangamura, Anitube and Miomio, in order to protect the country’s creative industries. The three sites reportedly attracted a total of 938 million visitors between September 2017 and February 2018.
The government’s call to ISPs was a temporary measure to address piracy until an appropriate copyright law could be established. Currently, Japanese copyright law bans the uploading of illicit content, but many site owners do not upload the content themselves or even store it on their computer servers.
Japan is now considering a proposal which would make certain websites inaccessible in Japan. However, the EFF said this is a “terrible solution” to address copyright violations.
Source: WIPR

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