The technology will change once again to get around the legalese. Also of note, Japan has very strong anti-wiretapping laws[0] that prohibit carriers and other providers from port blocking, tapping or redirecting packets -- the only presumable legal way for these associations to check on downloaders would be to hold illegal content themselves and wait for a Japanese IP address to connect.
Can they connect to a public torrent tracker and have them send a list of peers? That seems about as close to wiretapping as reading a public message board.
PS: That page is not in English, so I don't think it's vary useful for the average HN reader.
Does anyone know if the rightsholder honeypot method holds up in court? It seems that one could argue that the rightsholder implicitly authorized distribution by knowingly assisting in said distribution as a seed or peer, even if the intent was simply to harvest IP addresses.
IANAL and this is probably a stupid question, but it seems clever to me. ;)
The technology will change once again to get around the legalese. Also of note, Japan has very strong anti-wiretapping laws[0] that prohibit carriers and other providers from port blocking, tapping or redirecting packets -- the only presumable legal way for these associations to check on downloaders would be to hold illegal content themselves and wait for a Japanese IP address to connect.
[0] http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%80%9A%E4%BF%A1%E3%81%AE%E7%...