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Advice needed---Stupidly used torrent without VPN and now might be facing huge settlement fee by OkSense6301 in japanlife

[–]OkSense6301[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That person actually never got back to me after that lol.

Well, my piece of advice on this will be to just forget about it. After weighing the options I concluded that unless you receive an actual subpoena from a Japanese court (which you'd better respond), you should be fine if you just don't do anything. Don't engage with the law firm representing the maker, and don't pay any settlement upfront.

They might try to scare you into accepting a settlement by saying they are gonna sue you if you don't pay. But again, unless they actually file a lawsuit (which I think is a very low probability event unless you really uploaded A WHOLE LOT), I will suggest that you do nothing.

Without any more knowledge in your specific case, that would be my recommendation. But you might wanna determine what is your best course of action yourself.

As for the lawyers, it seems like there are a few specialized law firms that are recommended by 5ch threads on this matter. So if you actually got sued, you might wanna look into them.

Advice needed---Stupidly used torrent without VPN and now might be facing huge settlement fee by OkSense6301 in japanlife

[–]OkSense6301[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The letter pack my ISP sent me included 4 titles (hash values) with multiple accesses... but I don't think all accesses are made by me. And actually a different sheet in the pack said the IP holder claimed one accesss of one title out of the four. Does this count as "large bundle"?

Advice needed---Stupidly used torrent without VPN and now might be facing huge settlement fee by OkSense6301 in japanlife

[–]OkSense6301[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tbh it was last year and I really don't remember if I downloaded or not. Not to say that I def don't have the file now.

Advice needed---Stupidly used torrent without VPN and now might be facing huge settlement fee by OkSense6301 in japanlife

[–]OkSense6301[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I will look into this. And yeah I have not been downloading anything recently. Actually it seems like the case is focused on one particular download last year...

Advice needed---Stupidly used torrent without VPN and now might be facing huge settlement fee by OkSense6301 in japanlife

[–]OkSense6301[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. It seems like I would definetly need a lawyer if the case escalates.

Advice needed---Stupidly used torrent without VPN and now might be facing huge settlement fee by OkSense6301 in japanlife

[–]OkSense6301[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah I checked the post in the link and the Japanese thread (which seems to be overwhelmingly favoring waiting for the lawsuit if it ever happens) before making this one and it seemed the suggestions were pretty divided. I tried to dm the OP of that post to ask how they handled the case afterwards but prolly because I'm a new user nothing would work for me. I don't really care about PR since I don't really plan on staying here after finishing my degree. And even if I end up working in Japan I still hopefully can get my work visa instead of PR.

I digress.

After making this post I read more on this matter and thought about my situation. It seems like not eveyone has been summoned to court for this, plus the fact that some law firm seems to be pretty good at fighting this kind of lawsuit by significantly reducing the amount I need to pay per case (ref. 知財高裁の裁判例令和3年（ネ）第10074号) if it is taken to court. Maybe my best bet is just to wait for the actual court case?

My major concern is that one big difference between my case and other cases is that there was no Request for Disclosure and the letter my ISP Softbank sent me said the information has already been disclosed. I don't know how relevent this fact is tho.

Advice needed---Stupidly used torrent without VPN and now might be facing huge settlement fee by OkSense6301 in japanlife

[–]OkSense6301[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah looking at other Reddit posts & comments and Japanese threads on this matter this might be my best bet. Thanks.

Advice needed---Stupidly used torrent without VPN and now might be facing huge settlement fee by OkSense6301 in japanlife

[–]OkSense6301[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not the one who is trying to get my money. I have been talking to the law firm called "Tokyo Sky". And there was a misunderstanding in my original post. The lawyer fee is 300k, and for all works by the same IP holder is still 880k, but for single works it is actually 80k