Source: Daily Yomiuri Online

The nation’s four Internet provider organizations have agreed to forcibly cut the Internet connection of users found to repeatedly use Winny and other file-sharing programs to illegally copy gaming software and music, it was learned Friday.

There goes winny, seems like they are really enforcing it right down the users’ throats but I am wondering what the public’s reaction might be. As quoted again from the same source,

Two years ago, a major Internet provider tried to introduce a measure to disconnect users from the Internet whenever the company detected the use of Winny or other file-sharing software.

However, the provider abandoned the idea after receiving a warning from the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry that such an approach was regarded as Internet snooping and might violate the right to privacy in communications.

Users will receive a letter who have been tracked by a “special detection software” if they use winny or file sharing software to download illegal copies of copyright infringing material.

The providers would then send warning e-mails to the users based on the IP addresses of the computers used to connect to the Internet. 

Sounds familar, isn’t it ? Sounds so much like..x3d0