How popular music, game software, comics can be downloaded on an illegal site, its reality is revealed

The revised copyright law came into force on January 1 this year and also against the exchange of contents using file sharing software such as "Winny" and "Share"Introduction of "monitoring system"Although severe crackdowns are now being done, there are no signs that there are no signs that there are no sites that upload content illegally even in such circumstances.

Then, a survey was conducted on how much content such as popular music, game software, comics etc can be downloaded from an illegal site.

Details are as below.
(PDF file)Investigation of website relating to copyright infringement

According to this report, cross warp which handles contents security business etc. seems to be investigating the actual situation that it is possible for ordinary users to easily obtain copyrighted works distributed without permission to the copyright owner is.

As for the survey method, as of August 10, 2010, the book name includes "download", the price is 1500 yen or less, and in the sales top ranking publication published after October 2009, "magazines dealing with illegal sites" It checks how much content such as music, game software, comics etc can actually be downloaded from the total of 61 sites posted.

Four magazines targeted. By the way, the magazine itself can be purchased with "Amazon.co.jp", it is easy for ordinary people to obtain.


First of all, the result of investigation as to whether the top 20 songs of Oricon single ranking of week 1 to week 3 of September 2010 can be downloaded. 38 titles out of 39 titles including popular J-POP and animation songs are available for download.


Next, the check result as to whether it is possible to download the title which ranked 30th ranking number of sale from 20th September to 26th September 2010 announced by Enterbrain. Of the 30 titles, 23 titles have been downloaded.


And finally in the survey targeting the comic which is in the top ten ranking ranking of comic sales from August 1 - August 31, 2010 which Nippon Publishing Sales announced, 8 titles could be downloaded .


Domain information on illegal sites. Most of you know that you are using a server in the USA.


"Megaupload" occupies 22% of the location of the file, but there are also illegal sites using multiple services in combination.


By the way, the magazines that were referred to in 2009 were all published in October 2009(PDF file)In October 2009 domestic multiple copyright interest groups called for publishers to refrainAs a result, it seems that such magazine release is reduced, but despite being a magazine launched last year, being able to download content at a high rate is a major source of download from overseas sites And it seems that the situation that the storage service is used as a file placement tendency does not change from last year.

In addition, under the revised Copyright Law, it is illegal to download while knowing that it is a file uploaded without rights to the right holder.