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  4. Posted

    Source:

    http://kotaku.com/5920140/come-october-dont-use-youtube-in-japan

    While the Japanese public watched a cult terrorist get arrested, its leaders in government quietly made a move that could make watching YouTube illegal in Japan…

    SOPA and PIPA are still rather fresh in people's memories. For those of you who don't know what SOPA and PIPA are, and yet are tech savvy enough to check our site, you've obviously been hiding under a rock the better half of last year (and can easily use the Google or some other search engine to research and get yourself up to date on how close the US got to a very terrible thing), or you're just browsing the internet for porn and stumbled on here by accident. Either way, you're either smart enough to already know (or if not, look up by yourself) pretty much all you need to know, or you're hopelessly clueless, in which case I really don't think I can help you in the limited space I have...

    Anyways, SOPA and its evil twin PIPA were shelved indefinitely back in January thanks to the heroic level of protest by the public in the US. Sadly, other countries are not faring so well. Japan has recently passed a stricter revision to its copyright laws making, among other things, the download of illegally uploaded materials punishable by a prison sentence of less than 2 years and/or a fine of up to ¥2,000,000 (US$25,106).

    While some could argue that this is a step in the right direction for Japan, which for the longest time had been fairly lax in the area of illegal downloading, some finer points of the revision are raising eyebrows. For one, while the Japanese media was churning over the capture of the last Aum cult member, (in fact almost the moment the story broke) the House of Representatives quietly passed the revision with virtually no coverage and almost no public announcement, leaving some to question the coincidental timing. Second, the revision was rushed through and passed without council or discussion. Members of the Ministry of Education who could potentially place a vote against the revision have been switched out so there is no opposition in place. Of the public, the only major group of people who are aware of what is going on are the 2-channel using sub-culturalites, a group often spoken of by the mass media as social outcasts and potential criminals and as such does not have much political swaying power in the public eye.

    As to the actual effects of the revision, attorney at law, Toshimitsu Dan recently spoke on what Japan can look for in the future.

    The Effects:

    1. Ripping and copying of copy-protected and encoded materials like DVDs and games is no longer considered "for personal use" and is punishable.

    2. The sale of software and hardware that circumvents copy protection and access protections is forbidden.

    3. The intentional download of illegally uploaded materials is now punishable.

    Basically, according to Toshimitsu Dan, video sites like YouTube and Nico Nico Douga that download temporary data to your computer will potentially be targets for regulation in Japan. That, and/or anybody who uses those sites could face prison time. Not only that, but thanks to the arbitrary wording of the revision that leaves it wide open for abuse by the authorities, the law can even affect Japanese citizens outside the borders of Japan. Even a Japanese citizen in America who watches a video on YouTube could potentially be a target for criminal proceedings.

    While not nearly as destructive or far-reaching as SOPA could potentially have been, the new copyright law revisions were born of the same mindset of a recording industry attempting to throw out the baby with the bathwater because they can't figure out the intricacies and complexity of modern day plumbing. Sadly, the Japanese public is not as well-informed or vocal as in the US. Come October 1st when the revision will come into effect, we can probably expect a string of arrests. *sigh*

    This is madness. Why is every country jumping on the "ban everything" bandwagon?

  8. Posted

    How did you do the second picture, MIND BLOWING.

    The power of multiple mirrors 8D we have a medicine cabinet that has a mirror on it, so I pulled the door out a bit so it reflected the main mirror as well.

    The jacket cost me an arm and a leg )= but well worth it 8D the inside is silky smooth~

  12. Posted

    You guys may be right, only I've never ran into the issue of a font going "bad" when I've had this issue come up with myself. I should rephrase my sentence above to "Since you can see Japanese characters in chrome, I don't think it's an issue with the font(s)." :o

    Programs can use different fonts if they choose, but the majority of them will use the system default, which is determined by the system locale.

    But, after some research, I came across this:

    Restore default font in windows 7

    Because your activity at your computer, like installed many program or softwares and new fonts or cause anothers activity, your windows now not use default fonts again. This situation become of you not familiar with display fonts in windows. If you want to restore default font in windows 7, you can follow this tricks below :

    1. Open the control panel and then select Appearance and Personalization

    2. At Fonts point, select Fonts setting

    3. Click at Restore default font settings

    4. Now, your windows will be use default font again

    Maybe give this a shot?

  13. Posted

    Where's your boy-microsoft-man-friend!?

    As far as the Windows issue goes, it's a system locale problem. I would try going to Control Panel, under Region and Language, click the Administrative tab and change the system locale to Japanese (Japan).

    Since you can see Japanese characters in chrome, it's not I don't think it's an issue with the font(s).

    As far as everyone's problem with seeing squares and jumbled up chinese and half-width katakana on some pages in your browsers, that's actually due to poor web coding standards. In the header of every page web developers are supposed to set which encoding the page should be displayed in (which should be UTF-8), but a lot of older Japanese websites still set their encoding to Shift-JIS (or your browser simply auto-detects it wrong because it was never stated in the first place). To fix this, you can manually set the encoding to be used. In chrome, click on the wrench (settings) -> Tools -> Encoding -> and select Unicode (UTF-8), which should be at the top. In firefox, I believe the same thing is found under the Views menu.

    Let me know if any of this helped!

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    Some of my favorite bands are the GazettE and Buck-Tick (mostly their older stuff, some of which reminds me of The Cure), though I'm open to listen to just about anything. I also enjoy listening to Kagrra.

    Cupcake points from me.

    And welcome to the forum~

  16. Posted

    Use the method I mentioned above. It doesn't have eMail notifications, but it lets you find uploads by your favourite poster with one click.

    I did look around and couldn't find a mod that would add this particular feature, so I guess the workaround I described is the next best thing for now.

    I also looked and found nothing. Only way this would happen is if I coded it, and I just don't have the time for that at the moment ;-;

  25. Posted

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    This has ALWAYS been the case with PSCompany. You guys are just realizing this? They, Avex, and Kisaki's shit have always been uptight asshole's about their artists' "content". And throw bitchfits over anything that's posted on the internet.

    This was a reason (though not THE reason) why Miyavi left them.

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