
Japan’s controversial new law criminalising mod chips and DVD ripping has been applied for the first time, resulting in the arrest of a man for modding several Nintendo Wiis.
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Doujin fans are quaking at the wrath of Disney, which has just shut down a free doujin game for daring to include a likeness of Mickey Mouse, demanding ¥6,000,000 in compensation for good measure.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 24, 2012 09:36 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Endings, Internet, Law, Police, Politics, Sites, USA

Such major file hosting services as Filesonic and Fileserve have begun shutting down or crippling their services out of fear that they may end up following Megaupload’s management in being extradited to the US to face charges of facilitating copyright infringement on a grand scale.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 20, 2012 08:38 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Hong Kong, Internet, Law, New Zealand, Police, Sites, USA

The US government has shut down top file hosting service Megaupload and had its founder arrested on suspicion of causing $500 million in lost revenue to content sellers.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Dec 10, 2011 11:22 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comparison, Copyright, Crime, Food, Internet, Law, Mangaka, Plagiarism, Shueisha

Grand Jump serialised gourmet manga “Dashi Master” is the latest manga to fall victim to the temptations of Google Images, with the publishers suspending its publication after its author was accused of tracing a significant number of images.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 3, 2011 13:34 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Courts, Crime, Internet, Mental Illness, Schoolgirls, USA, Video Gallery, YouTube

A judge who was recorded viciously belting his disabled daughter for her illicit downloads has caused outrage online, not least because he specialises in presiding over domestic disputes.
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2ch’s plagiarism police have been sharing some of their favourite examples of how not to go about blatant manga plagiarism, although at times it seems their zealous pursuit of these goals has got the better of them.
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Anime fans are aghast at the news that the Guangxi government has given its highest award for cultural excellence to a Chinese moral indoctrination anime widely derided as a complete rip-off of 5cm Per Second.
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The “Chinese edition” of Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru has lately been attracting attention for any number of reasons – mostly relating to its rather spectacularly suspect cover…
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Urban explorers have descended upon the abandoned ruins of Nara Dreamland, revealing in some detail the spectacle of a celebrated amusement park descending into ruin.
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The launch of China’s first aircraft carrier has been marred by accusations that it has pirated much of technology used in the ship, with Russia in particular said to be livid at the shameless copying of its aircraft designs.
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A major accident on China’s much trumpeted new high speed rail system has prompted the inevitable “China quality” denunciations online.
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