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Japan rolls out stiff fines and jail times for illegal downloads
- Sophos - Naked Security
- — 2 Oct 2012, 4:29 p.m.
Japan has changed its copyright law to criminalize downloaders for the first time, raising what were previously civil penalties to criminal penalties of up to two years prison time or fines of up to 2 million yen. 