Schoolboy Arrested for Leaking Shonen Jump on YouTube

i didn't, i bought a volume, got home, and went to sleep, forgot about the manga for a day or two, went over to read it and the ink melted and stuck t pages together.

Why do you think so, out of habit? I never liked books. I liked the stories. But reading was always kind of annoying. You got the book, which you had to hold and than you need to sit or lay down, but you just can't relax, because you need to turn the pages. It really is quite bothersome if you compare it with scanlations. People prefering books seem to me like people prefering candles over light bulbs, because of strange reasons I can't comprehend.

If you can rationally think about what makes reading stuff electronically a convenience, I think it's not hard to deduce its inconvenience at times.

First of all, books are portable and cheap compare to portable electronic devices. Books don't break as easily as portable electronic devices. Books don't need an internal power source to present its content. There are places that portable electronic devices are forbid, such as in Japanese schools, etc. Last but not least, to some people reading book is a less tiring to the eyes than reading a screen.

You'd think so, but actually reading the volume itself is pretty damn satisfying, compared with scanslation sites.

can you link an e-ink reader thats good? last time i tried that was on a friends kindel and the quality was atrocious.

also, if you have a great manga reader, reading online is a pain in the ass. granted the pain parts are minor, but they add up

They are too lazy to quit their current page with a single button click.

That's the reality of the technological progress.

I only download. Online copies are usually recompressed and watermarked so the quality is shit. Also I don't want to start into a manga only to resume where I left off and find the site is gone - when you download the whole volumes, you could pause for 50 years and come back to it.

I like loading them onto an e-ink reader too though, and that's impossible with a website or Youtube stream.

actually, the guy who sued did it because the coffee was 180 degrees, that is hot enough to give third degree burns in seconds

hot coffee anywhere i go is got, but not scalding hot, or 3rd degree burns in seconds hot.

when i first heard of this i thought it was retarded to, but the circumstances behind it, and the dact there were 200 or 2000 coffee related injuries, i forget which, that were serious enough to warrant medical attention, i at the very least understand.

and the fact the guy sued for little more than medical bills didn't hurt either.

news made him look like a shitfucker, but he wasn't.

Hot coffee is hot! Bawwww!

but seriously - have you guys been tracking the predatory lawsuits that are going on in the US? Uwe Boll - Far Cry? Hurt Locker? every download is a lost sale in their eyes and they are demanding $1500 to $2500 as a settlement. Best business scam so far. the movies will make more than in theatres. the US has ruled that the maximum settlement a movie can get is $150,000. Since the movie companies equate downloading to theft, shouldn't pirating a movie be given the same fines as stealing a movie DVD from a shop is?

what gives?

If that's true fine, but I see your logic, and I raise you one "mother sues fast food chain because the food made her son fat" card.

Your move.

there were 2 people, 2 women, they sued because the food was addictive, and that they ate to much and got fat, and that nutrients were hard if not impossible for them to find.

it went to court for a while, but after they made a law or something, i don't know what the term is, that you cant sue over eating and getting fat anymore.

them not showing nutriments on an addictive food is a legitimate claim, however they do tell you online and very hidden, so i don't know what the outcome of this trial was, possibly an out of court settlement.

i at least know this was true in America. not sure internationally if its ok to sue over fat still.

It's a trap (card)

Artefact:
Are you sure they can arrest 14 year old boy in Japan?

I thought it's impossible in civilized countries.

Theft is theft. There's county/state jail for the grown ups, and there's juvi for the youngs. Apparently you know nothing about civilized countries.

He deserved the arrest for his stupidity. Don't share illegal things on youtube. Share it on Peer-to-Peer networks!

dude that's her other foot

With all of the talk about piracy and shonen jump, did anyone notice that her leg on the picture is drawn completely wrong. Her foot is not even attached to her leg!! lolz!

He's time-traveling Jesus. That's the only explanation.

Note: he should be used for releasing something yet to be released. Its like someone else saying "I MADE IT FIRST" when he actually copied it.

The company should question first how he got it rather than sue him on multiple accounts.

1) They knew someone was releasing prior to the sell date.

2) Despite him being caught multiple times, he continued to be able to release it prior to the official release.

3) They are not seeking alternative ways of release to help prevent such an event from occurring.

4) They are people stuck in their ways and want to send lawyers at everything rather than think of how to overcome the problem.

sadly i wish, but I never will. The cost of buying it too much, the shonen jump comes with a bunch of manga i don't even want to read, and the time it takes for them to be translated to english is ages.

It's actually easy.

See, in Japan, most shops wait until the release date to put magazines for sale. Some do first, but it's rare.

However, the companies ship to China and other places with shops importing Japanese magazines ahead of time. They think the shops there will wait too. But they don't.

So Japanese magazines are always available days earlier in China and some other places.

People there scan it immediately and put it on the internet. People in Japan then spread the scans or photos, depending on what they could get.

This boy was probably just doing this, or maybe getting the magazine himself from some of the few Japanese shops that do sell earlier than the official date.