Free Isamu Kaneko! His arrest is injustice (17)

1 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-13 15:58 [Del]


Free Isamu Kaneko! The fact that he was arrested for creating Winny is INJUST and ARBITRARY. The idea that anyone could be arrested for "conspiracy to commit copyright crimes" by creating software is ridiculous. Kaneko's intentions should be irrelevant to the debate, for it matters not what he wanted to do, it only matters whether he broke the law or not. And he certainly DID NOT. Winny has many uses other than copyright infringement, and it doesn't matter if this is what Kaneko made it for, because it is technology all the same, which has many good uses.

And besides, creating viruses is not against the law in Japan.

(Note: also, copyright law is crazy as it is. Non-commercial file-sharing of copyrighted material should be made legal IMMEDIATELY.)

2 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-13 17:48 [Del]

Why don't they just use torrents?

3 Name: MODD : 2008-08-13 18:36 [Del]

Goodwork international MODD committee. We have successfully saved SAoVQ once again. Please proceed in this thread.

4 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-13 20:25 [Del]

>>2
Because then filthy gaijin could easily use and repost them.

5 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-13 22:44 [Del]

>>2
Too easy. P2P in Japan has to be UNDERGROUND and HARD TO USE, otherwise baka gaijin would just steal from the glorious nation of Nippon.

You need a superior Japanese IQ to figure Share or Perfect Dark out.

6 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-14 02:54 [Del]

>>4 >>5
I'm not gonna accept this easy answer. They could perfectly use a torrent client that won't send anything to IPs outside of Japan, if that's their objective. And they don't have to run their own trackers if that's hard in Japan, trackerless torrents work.
I understand that they'd rather have stronger anonymity than torrents, but once again it makes no sense not to build upon existing networks and protocols.

All the Japanese internets feel like it's 1994 all over again, with their aversion to buying domains, their sites designed with vintage versions of stuff like IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder, and optimized for phones and dial-up rather than their 60Mb internet pipes, and as I said all the amateurish software reimplementing in incompatible ways stuff already done better in the rest of the world.
It makes no sense that a big player in hi-tech approaches computers just like some tiny African country would. There has to be a reason.

7 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-14 03:43 [Del]

>>6
What sites are you talking about? Most Japanese websites I have seen seem like personal websites, which they probably are.

8 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-14 06:51 [Del]

I'm not just talking about personal sites. Professional sites for big companies aren't much better.

9 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-14 09:16 [Del]

>>6
Japan's Internet is stuck in 1998.

NETSCAPE COMPOSER BACKGROUNDS, FREE COUNTERS, FREE HOSTING, FRAMES.

They just don't use torrents because they're rather rely on Share / Perfect Dark's security through obscurity. But even that is bullshit, Share can be broken, PD will be broken. They're just fooling themselves.

Though on the other hand, not all Elevens think like that. Just try to get any recent raw off Tokyotosho. Half of the IPs are Japanese.

10 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-14 12:15 [Del]

>>9
Modern Western website design is really cluttered and ugly tbh. I find Japanese sites to be a breath of fresh air.

11 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-14 14:29 [Del]

>>10
I have to agree with this. Look at the site we're on right now. Extremely simple layout, easy to look at, unique. Whenever I see a web 2.0 site I want to vomit; they all look the exact same.

12 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-14 15:52 [Del]

>>11
Thanks guys, you reminded me of Newgrounds and its fugly 2.0 layout. (´Д`)

I love the 1.0 feel. Mainly because it's faster (usually) and doesn't look like it's trying to appeal to the kids OTI when they should be DOING THEIR SCHOOLWORK AHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Thank god the new .css' on 4chan are optional. I'd go crazy if I had to stare at that shiny shit 24/7.

All in all 2/5 would def not buy again.

Also, thread de-railed.

13 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-22 15:30 [Del]

>>12
No, the thread is not derailed!
Oh, by the way, people outside of Japan can also use Winny, you know.

14 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-24 10:55 [Del]

Japan's webdesign is horrible, and so are their sharing methods.

The west is far superior when it comes to web design. Maybe not that WEB 2.0 shit but when you have a simple page design like http://www.firewolf.com.au/ this or whatever, you feel some quality in your heart.

15 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-24 11:54 [Del]

>>14 all I see in this website are rounded corners that do not match one another for size.

16 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-24 17:33 [Del]

>>14
Not enough web 1.0
I rate this websight ⊂ out of ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二⊃.

17 Name: VIPPER : 2008-08-25 11:36 [Del]

仔猫ですか。

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