Trans-Pacific internet cables
A map showing high speed internet cables under construction in Asia, via Technology Review/Foreign Policy:
Categories: Technology
2-Channeler Arrested For Bomb Threat Against Soka Gakkai
A 43-year-old librarian has been arrested for posting bomb threats on 2-channel:
“Soka Gakkai members kept on trying to get me to vote for their favored election candidates,” he was quoted as telling investigators. “I wanted to get back at them.”
At around 10:25 p.m. on April 2, Kamikawauchi posted a message on the Ni-Channeru (2-Channel) bulletin board saying, “I’m going to blow up the Soka Gakkai’s Sakai-Ikeda Auditorium in Osaka on April 4,” Tokyo police said.
His bomb threat forced Soka Gakkai employees to go on alert, thereby obstructing business, according to investigators.
Investigators suspect that he also put up a message on the Internet threatening to blow up Zenkoji Temple in Nagano after the Olympic torch relay organizing committing scrapped its plan to use the temple as the starting point for the relay at its request.
Categories: General Japan
Australia-Japan Cable Upgraded
Better international internet cable to make us all happy:
Australia-Japan Cable has completed its capacity upgrade announced in May 2007, taking total capacity on its system to 240Gbps.
The system was built with an initial capacity of 80Gbps but is upgradeable to 1Tbps. When AJC announced plans for the upgrade it said at the time that the upgrade would cost between $US20m and $US30m. An initial 80Gbps of the additional capacity became available in December.
The AJC network extends from Sydney to Japan via Guam and connects with more than a dozen other international networks in Guam and Japan. CEO, Robin Russell, said the upgrade had included “installation of 10Gbps wavelength equipment plus the latest generation SDH transmission equipment at each of the AJC cable stations as well as improved network management capabilities.” He added that the upgrade had not required any change to submarine elements such as the cable or repeaters.”
Categories: Technology
Crackdown On File-Sharing In Japan
It is being reported that Japanese internet service providers are cutting off the net connections of users found to be engaging in illegal file-sharing:
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.
The move aims to deal with the rise in illegal copying of music, gaming software and images that has resulted in huge infringements on the rights of copyright holders.
Resorting to cutting off the Internet connection of copyright violators has been considered before but never resorted to over fears the practice might involve violations of privacy rights and the freedom of use of telecommunications.
The Internet provider organizations have, however, judged it possible to disconnect specific users from the Internet or cancel provider contracts with them if they are identified as particularly flagrant transgressors in cooperation with copyright-related organizations, according to sources.
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[hat tip to reader James]
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