"Instead of blocking pirated sites, rights holders will launch DoS attacks directly on pirated sites" - at the Study Group on Piracy Measures on the Internet held by the Government's Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters on August 10 , The topic was that the Japan IT Federation Federation (Chairman: Mr. Kentaro Kawabe, president of Yahoo!) that made up of IT related organizations made this proposal.The proposal materials have been released (
PDF ) on the government's Web site recently, and are discussing on the Internet.
In the material, as a technical countermeasure for pirated sites, we propose that "access concentration method" will be an alternative to blocking. It is a proposal of a "DoS attack on a pirate site by a right holder," so to speak, that the right holder himself concentrates the access to the illegal site and it is difficult to connect to the site.
Regarding this "access concentration method", in the document, "Compared with blocking where there are not a lot of people getting sacrificed at the expense of 100 million people, only the operator of the pirate site is affected, and cost is required to take avoidance measures It is superior that it is structurally superior "" If it is a policy that right holders can adopt by themselves even now without overcoming cooperation such as ISP ", we emphasize merit.
Denial of service caused by DoS attack is a crime, but there is a concept that "in view of the idea that even if it interferes with the management of a drug sales site does not fall under the false charge interruption crime, it does not correspond to a business obstruction crime at all" Although judgment is based on the court, it is also possible to organize that it is to defeat illegality as a legitimate defense against illegal act of infringement, "he said, mentioning the possibility not to be illegal.
In addition, the Federation is "an organization that represents the largest domestic engineers in the country with 5,000 participating companies and 4 million employees, and has various expertise, so implementing more effective access concentration measures We can also provide technical assistance ".
Looking at the response of the net to this proposal, although some evaluation such as "It is interesting as a thought experiment" and "Mashi rather than blocking" are some, it is "criminal act", "if it does not become legitimate defense" "Using the same server There are many critical opinions such as "There are other sites affected.
As a countermeasure against piracy at the study meeting on October 10, the legal issues of blocking, strengthening of filtering, possibility of litigation against CDN operators, etc. are organized, and the respective
documents are released .Discussions were also made based on materials, but the minutes are unpublished as of 15th.