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is a Japanese textboard. In 2007, 2.5 million posts were made every day.〔Statistics for the current day, split out by channel, are at (stats.2ch.net )〕 Launched in 1999, it has gained significant influence in Japanese society, comparable to that of traditional mass media such as television, radio, and magazines.〔 During 2008 the site generated an annual revenue upwards of ¥100 million for its founder Hiroyuki Nishimura.〔 The website was previously operated under Packet Monster Inc., a company based in Telok Ayer, Singapore, between 2009 and 2014.〔 "Speculation abounds, however, that the move may be a legal trick to deflect further lawsuits filed against Nishimura for the site's frequently libelous content."〕 It has been described as "Japan’s most popular online community, with around ten million users accessing it each day." The name "2channel" is allegedly a reference to how RF modulators, commonly used for connecting earlier-generation game consoles to television sets, default to VHF channel 2 in Japan.〔2ch thread at (); probably dead at later than this time of writing.〕 ==History== 2ch was opened on 30 May 1999 in a college apartment in Conway, Arkansas on the campus of University of Central Arkansas〔 by Hiroyuki Nishimura, known simply as .〔Matsutani, Minoru, "(2channel's success rests on anonymity )", ''Japan Times'', 6 April 2010, p. 3.〕 At the time, 2channel served as the successor to an earlier anonymous textboard known as Ayashii World. Since 2channel's servers were located in the United States, the website enjoyed a greater degree of immunity to legal action from within Japan, in comparison to its predecessors. In 2004, the website was at risk of being shut down due to poorly coded serverside Perl code which caused the website to function sluggishly. Volunteer programmers from the UNIX board assisted in refactoring the website code, which reduced memory usage. In 2009, Hiroyuki transferred ownership of the website to Packet Monster Inc., a company based in Telok Ayer, Singapore, while remaining as an administrator. However, due to Japanese bystander laws which state that a website holds full responsibility for the regulation of its community in the event that it becomes accessory to a crime, Hiroyuki was charged with promoting the sale of narcotics on December 20, 2012. Later on August 24, 2013, the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau declared in a tax audit that Nishimura failed to declare 100 million yen worth of website revenue which is subject to income tax. In August 2013, an accidental leak placed the credit card details and personal details of thousands of 2channel users into the public domain,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Accidental leak IDs over 30,000 ‘anonymous’ 2channel users )〕 exposing the anonymous profiles of various high level personas such as politicians and writers, in addition to exposing users to identity theft. As a result, a series of lawsuits were filed against the website. Around the same time, a controversial community development known as the anti-matome movement occurred. are websites specialising in summarising 2channel threads, and initially began as volunteer efforts, however many of these sites eventually became more sensationalised over time so that they could gain higher viewcounts and advertising revenue. The controversy escalated when matome blogs began revealing real-world identities of 2channel posters, with some consisting of slanderous fabrications. As a result, the community became divided and polarised over the issue. On February 19, 2014, 2channel underwent a domain name repossession, with Jim Watkins, an ex-US Army officer and chairman of San Francisco-based N.T. Technologies taking full control over the website, relieving Nishimura of all power, and assuming the role of website administrator.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Who holds the deeds to gossip bulletin board 2channel? )〕 It was later revealed that 2channel was suffering from financial setbacks prior to the takeover. In response, Nishimura created his own clone of 2channel at 2ch.sc, scraping the contents of the entire 2channel website and costing the original 2channel website significant bandwidth costs. Currently 2ch.sc continues to scrape the contents of 2channel in real-time. In a Q&A session on 4chan shortly after becoming the site's owner, Nishimura claimed that control over 2channel was stolen by Watkins, and that he had filed a lawsuit against Watkins. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2channel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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