Odex's first salvo: May 2007
Odex director Stephen Sing. --ST File Picture
MAY 2007 Local anime distributor Odex gets court order requiring Internet service provider (ISP) SingNet to release account information of users whose accounts are linked to illegal downloads of anime distributed by the company.
It sends letters to them, and also hires US company to track illegal downloads and trace users. Downloaders each made to pay $3,000 to $5,000 in reimbursement to the company.
AUG 2007 StarHub asked to disclose names of illegal downloaders. Incident creates uproar among netizens, who call it privacy infringement.
Soon after, Odex director Stephen Sing is flamed online and threatened. Anti-Odex online campaigns follow.
SEP 2007 Mr Sing announces that Odex will not send any more letters to Internet users with a recent history of illegal downloading, provided they stop at once.
JAN 2008 High Court orders ISP PacNet to give up names of users who illegally downloaded anime to be sent to six Japanese anime studios.
Odex director Stephen Sing. --ST File Picture
MAY 2007 Local anime distributor Odex gets court order requiring Internet service provider (ISP) SingNet to release account information of users whose accounts are linked to illegal downloads of anime distributed by the company.
It sends letters to them, and also hires US company to track illegal downloads and trace users. Downloaders each made to pay $3,000 to $5,000 in reimbursement to the company.
AUG 2007 StarHub asked to disclose names of illegal downloaders. Incident creates uproar among netizens, who call it privacy infringement.
Soon after, Odex director Stephen Sing is flamed online and threatened. Anti-Odex online campaigns follow.
SEP 2007 Mr Sing announces that Odex will not send any more letters to Internet users with a recent history of illegal downloading, provided they stop at once.
JAN 2008 High Court orders ISP PacNet to give up names of users who illegally downloaded anime to be sent to six Japanese anime studios.
