legion wrote:I'd love to see an audit of JASRAC's books.
I don't think it's that corrupt. I think it's about how the legal system here works. No 100% conviction, no charges. Here in Japan most home internet users can change ip address by simply powering down their router. That makes proving theft much harder. The police have to chase those too dumb to use out dated software that allows access to the entire hard drive of the offenders or figure out the mac address of the offenders. With the limited resources that the J-police have, both are nearly impossible. (never mind the horrid computer skills here) It's the same shit that happened in the US nearly 20 years ago, catch the kids too naive or dumb to know what they are doing to prove a point.
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