Japan took a step forward for illegal downloads

          Some political parties in Japan are trying it hard to accomplish the law of punishing illegal downloaders. If this law gets passed then anyone who downloads any music of videos without the copyright owner's permission then he/she may be sued & may be jailed for not less than 2years or may be fined with 200million yen (Rs. 12crore approx). But this will only happen if the copyright holder files a suit. Upon approval of the govt. the law will be enforced w.e.f. October 1, 2012.
          Till date there is no well made copyright enforcement law in Japan. The maximum punishment for the illegal downloader was decided by the provisions of the music industry. Now 3 political parties of Japan are trying to introduce this law & if it is done & the law is passed then illegal download in Japan will face a massive drop. But be sure that Japan govt. also take control of the proxies or bypasses to evade the enforcement. Cause we already witnessed in America that post Megaupload shutdown & ThePiratebay hunt down, most of the downloaders & uploaders are using VPN, Proxies and many other tools to hide themselves. But people of Kolkata not to worry, copyright owners here are too much reluctant to do these things & they are almost neglecting all these illegal downloads (:| . But it is always safe to be safe.