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October 7, 2008 4:57 PM - comments (3)

Ikeda-san reports two bits of very good news from Japan:

On Sep. 18, the Council of Culture gave up the extension of copyright from 50 years after the death of the author to 70 years. Two years ago, the Council proposed the extension to follow the "global standard", but many people on the Web objected against the legislation.

Last week the Council of Information and Communication decided to scrap the B-CAS, the notorious conditional access system for free broadcasting. Due to this change, "Dubbing Ten", which forbids copying the programs of digital broadcasting more than ten times, would be abolished, because it is enforced by the encryption of B-CAS.

Read more on his blog.

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October 7, 2008 7:46 PM العاب شمس الدين:

This an excellent post , I'm grateful to you , thanks a lot .

October 9, 2008 7:34 PM TheSun:

Fuck the Council of Culture! More Joi Ito Shit. With a capital "S". Japan is either with it, or it's not. Be Hip! Go Sun! :) Was Over at Yahoo!, yesterday...Left Them a little note: Get A Sun Black Box! To replace that grey garbage they have in the parking lot. Think they'll listen? :) If not, someone should send over a salesman to whack them in the head. Come on, Jerry! Get with it, already! You friggin' Yahoo! :) P.S. I don't run any LINsUX! "Distros"....Sun, I fucking hate that term! Almost as much as "Open Source"... :) Fuck The Niggars! :)

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