Japanese file sharers beware!

After an increase in complaints from the entertainment and software industries, four major Japanese ISPs have agreed to work with copyright holders to fight piracy.

Under the agreement, copyright holders will use "special detection software" to track down illegal file sharers, then alert ISPs, according to TorrentFreak.

ISPs will then send out warning emails, then interrupt file sharers' internet connection if the warning is not heeded. ISPs will terminate the accounts of repeat offenders.

In Japan, illegal file sharing jumped 180 percent in 2007.

Similar proposals have popped up in France, the UK and Australia.