My Short Translation; --- Today, government parties got into shape the bill which imposes "two or less years of imprisonment", or a "2 million or less yen fine" to illegal download of the music or an image file. (...and Games,Movies of course.)
The Democratic Party will open an ordinary Diet next year to start this new law.
Nowadays, Illegal download of a music file etc. succeeded one another, and it has inflicted great damage on related business circles. Although illegal upload was conventionally made applicable to punishment by the Copyright Act, criminal punishment was not imposed on download. ---