It seems that backuping your discs is forbidden and talking about it will get you in jail

Jul 23, 2012 12:21 GMT  ·  By

Media companies are in an all-out war with people buying their merchandise. Not only do the companies don’t want you to share your music or movies with your friends in your own house, but they also don’t seem to like when people backup their discs.

After promising that they would hide most of ACTA legislation in other international agreements and impose the same Orwellian fascism proposed initially, media companies have now registered a victory against free speech in Japan.

Police officers have arrested four Japanese journalists that had published a magazine a year ago in which they were telling people how to backup DVDs.

The four journalists reportedly work at Sansai Books and they were arrested for selling online copies of the old magazine.

Japan's Unfair Competition Prevention Law which specifically states that it is illegal to sell and distribute any DRM circumvention device or software.

The thing is that they were not in fact distributing any software, and if the thousands of magazines sold with free shareware DVDs inside have ever contained a disc backup software, most of those journalists should be arrested along with any press distribution company.

The Japanese public reaction was almost non-existent.