Japan has decided to beat France and the United Kingdom (both who have similar proposals) to become the first country to ban file sharers from the internet. Oddly the agreement to do so has not come from the Japanese Government, but from Japan’s four internet service provider organizations after pressure (not surprisingly) from the record and movie industries. According to Torrent Freak, the agree
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