Interestingly enough, apparently ignorance of the law has been a big enough argument that this amendment is adding a section basically saying "if you know that it's illegal then you have no excuse", to which Japanese game developers are now adding of FBI warning-esque messages like those seen in American videorecordings:
http://kotaku.com/5705055/this-new-warning-screen-means-hand...
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Interestingly enough, apparently ignorance of the law has been a big enough argument that this amendment is adding a section basically saying "if you know that it's illegal then you have no excuse", to which Japanese game developers are now adding of FBI warning-esque messages like those seen in American videorecordings: http://kotaku.com/5705055/this-new-warning-screen-means-hand...
Won't the warez community just get rid of that warning?
Also, I think it's funny that they are aiming the message at a demographic that can't read kanji but can decipher complex legalese.
The linked article only talks about DRM however, as far as I can see. It says "data protected by encryption" is the target of the new law.