If you follow piracy news much, you’ll be aware of the crackdown that Odex has been performing in Singapore. Today I stumbled across this blogpost from the cousin of someone who had been contacted by Odex. The post links to this letter, which is an example of what a letter from Odex looks like. The names have been cut out, but the IP addies and the files downloaded are left - almost entirely Bleach, with some InuYasha and Tsubasa Chronicle thrown in.
I’m sure there’s something fascinating in there (like at least one grammatical error in the English - it’s “copyrighted” titles, Odex, not “copyright titles!”), but if nothing else I thought it was interesting to see what a letter like this would look like - at least as a cautionary tale. Those of us not in Singapore wouldn’t deal with Odex and AVPAS (the Anti Video Piracy Association - Singapore), but there are plenty of organizations here who would be happy to get anime downloaders in trouble.
So stay out of trouble, kids - this letter says that the recipient can receive fines of up to $10k per article, and if each item in Appendix C counts as an “article,” that’s 48 x 10k - $480,000. And that’s assuming that the list ends on that second page.
August 12th, 2007 at 7:20 am
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