The war against illegal downloaders will soon come in Japanese homes due to growing grumbling from music, movie and video game industries. It seems a tougher stance is needed since early measures to curb this problem were futile.

A news article reports that Internet service providers in Japan will issue a warning via email to all users notorious for illegally downloading files. Failure to stop this addiction would result to termination of connection.

Currently, there are about 1.75 million Japanese who are using file-sharing services and most are sharing pirated copies. If mininova, TorrentSpy and The Pirate Bay are the top sites in the US, Winny is the most popular in Japan.

Next month, Japanese ISPs will meet with different groups concerned with copyright infringement to flesh out the details and implementation of this plan.

Photo via The Age

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