A schoolboy who uploaded manga to YouTube in advance of its release has been arrested for copyright infringement.
Police from Japan’s national high tech crimes unit in Kyoto allege that the 14-year-old boy, a resident of Nagoya, used a digital camera to take photographs of pre-release manga which he would then compile into short movies, each page onscreen a few seconds, and these he would upload to YouTube.
The manga uploaded covered key shonen titles, such as Naruto and One Piece, from top shonen rags Jump and Sunday, most being 4-5 days ahead of their release dates, although over the New Year’s holidays he managed a 9 day lead.
In total, over a 3 month period of activity he is said to have uploaded 118 chapters from 30 titles, amassing a total of 8 million views.
He also further galled publishers by using Twitter and his own “spoiler information office” blog to publicise his releases.
YouTube rapidly deleted all his uploads, and he was repeatedly forced to create new accounts, but still he continued.
Police are still clueless as to how he acquired the manga ahead of official release. He freely admits the crimes.
The arrests come not long after top publishers vowed they would be cracking down on illicit scans in Japan, and then expanded their war to cover scanlation overseas.
The usual remarks about publisher shortsightedness in overlooking a market desperate enough to resort to YouTube distributed manga seem to apply here.
YouTube in particular offers advertising revenue sharing for content owners who allow their works to be distributed there, making publisher refusal to adopt any form of inexpensive distribution other than the telephone-directory thick wodges of toilet paper quality paper they seem so attached to all the more pigheaded.
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"toilet paper quality" - that was good :)
Using Youtube really is a silly way of reading manga :/
Srsly, I still can't understand why someone upload manga to youtube. I think youtube is the most inconvinient way to read manga.
The second most inconvenient way. The most inconvenient way is to read actual books. All the more if you have only one hand. (Other one is busy or not there in the first place.)
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.
It's better now though. In the old layout it was fucking atrociously small pictures in terribad quality.
There's still thick black borders and terrible emo music but at least the size and quality have increased.
Why the fuck people won't spend 30 seconds downloading a 10mb chapter I have no idea.
Downloading them is inconvenient. Reading online, with AutoPager, is the way to go. You just load about 100 pages ahead and scroll your way down while reading. If you are bored, you switch tabs.
They are too lazy to quit their current page with a single button click.
That's the reality of the technological progress.
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
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.
Not using any kind of a bookformat to read manga is silly.
Indeed.
My thoughts exactly. Why would you want to read manga on youtube?
Because you already finished watching your favorite anime... on youtube...
Seriously, poor quality and lag. And it's... Youtube.
a war they can never win
It's not really a war. More like kids throwing a tantrum.
arr arr pirates will never die...never
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Putting manga scans (or photos in this case) into movie files is stupid...
I'm pissed I didn't hear about this till now; I mean I'm RIGHT FUCKING THERE, taking the train into Nagoya every day.
if they confiscate the laptop,psp,ds and all of it belong to him all im gonna say he got owned bad.
"You are arrested for copyright infringement, and so is your gaming gadgets! Bwahahaha!!!"
It seems most of them were being used for piracy - I think you can even see his R4 in the picture.
Pirating a manga bout pirates.
Why do they have a problem with it, it's just a tribute... :)
Wait, they ACTUALLY arrest people for this? I've never heard anyone get arrested.
uh yeah, from a long time ago.
I guess the Japanese legal system is a bigger failure then US one which is really saying something.
This is not even worth pissing away tax dollars on and it should be a civil case vs a criminal case.
Copyright infringement is a crime in Japan.
why read manga on stupid you tube screen :p
Watching Manga is weird...I only read manga...
and read anime too?
Youtube is a big sign says, Hi I'm here come find me. Either its legal or illegal material. Somehow someway copyright stuff stays on youtube (THANK GOD).
But this guy is wanting attention anyways because youtube cut him off multiple times. Its not like he's trying to dodge the bullet.
Manga off the print is CRAP. Thanks to all internet scanlations THEY ARE A JOY TO READ. I think people would buy it if its HQ like scanlations, timely releases, online distribution, and no BS Filler volumes (Naruto anime cough cough...)
Youtube only cares if they get bitched at for it, otherwise they look the other way. Thats why we have alot of the non-licensed (not NA licensed) stuff on youtube.
I can say this kid deserved it. It may not have been this bad if he was adding them after the release...but before? cmon. Uploading them to youtube is like painting a giant bullseye on your ass.
Anyway, why would you watch manga? On youtube? Are people really that lazy that they can't click the next button anymore on the mangabook sites?
This child deserves it, to be also stupid to using youtube for that, childreen these day -.-'
Yeah...That's what torrents are for, stupid kid...
Good job arresting a 14 year old...
And great job, already got one, there are a few more millions.
LOL reading manga on youtube is silly IMO.
Normally I'd salute such distro, but YouTube? Twitter?? Ugh. And calling attention to himself, whoring out was asking for it.
Mangas`(not even scanned but photographed) on YouTube... how low can people sink? And I thought videos that explained how to illegally download games were already low (but not as low as the people who actually need those videos).
ah great lawsuits lawsuits lawsuits!
is it nothin but?
More drama ! /popcorn
On the side note, I like how we do things in Russia. People just resort they're conflicts on their own, sometimes (pretty often actually) resorting to physical violence, but it rarely goes to the court
Well its kinda the only word people know these days, pirate shonen jump? sue your ass, the coffee is too hot, lawsuit, i trip on this pebble, i'll freaking sue you!
Sue sue, yes Im gonna sue. Sue sue, I might even sue you!
Ill sue ya, Ill take all your money. Ill sue ya if you even look at me funny.
Weird Al speaks truth. :P
To be fair, the coffee in the mcdonalds lawsuit was about 180 degrees. seriously, coffee doesn't need to be that hot. either way, coffee IS supposed to be hot, so...
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)
It's pathetic. These courts actually think they have the right to control our daily lives.
When someone can sue you for causing embarassment, you know that shit's gone way too far.
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!
It's illegal in Japan - these are criminal charges, not civil litigation.
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!
yeah, and damn rightly so. Fuck pirates. A show or novel may not be released in your country but that doesnt give anyone the right to freely distribute someones work. The people that make these are underpaid as is and stealing from them is only going to make their situations worse, and at length pull down their company. If you want to watch or read something do it the legit way.
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.