Japan’s anti-online piracy law has been expanded by way of the approval of a recent bill, causing the illegal download of manga, magazines, and academic texts to now be punishable and lead to criminal charges.
While the current law only forbids the download of music and videos, the revision seeks to include the aforementioned materials and will be implemented starting January 1st of next year.
There are some exceptions however, which were included after earlier iterations of the revision drew criticism from experts and mangaka who said such a revision could restrain Internet use and freedom of expression – repeat offenders can be sentenced to up to two years incarceration or fined ¥2 million (sometimes both).
The Cultural Affairs Agency provided examples of exemptions – “‘minor offenses’ and ‘special instances’ which do not impair the interests of copyright owners” – specifying that downloads “limited to one frame from a ten plus page manga” and “saving a post about a poster advertising an event that was put on a social networking site without permission” are acceptable.
It was stated that the download of fan fiction and taking screenshots of non-copyrighted images was considered fair game as well.
The government is planning to pass the bill during the “ongoing regular parliamentary session”, the same time where a rule that makes leech websites illegal will take place on October 1st – individuals managing a leech website can be imprisoned for 5 years and/or fined ¥5 million.
Copyright law should only punish people who benefit financially from material by other authors, not their distribution of their free material.
If people like their authors, the contribution to their work would be voluntary, otherwise, the author’s work would no longer be recognized and no one would know his work anymore.
Just to give you an idea 80% of the expenses of producing an anime come from advertising, and the circulation of free material on the internet increases blu-ray sales.
Just see the example of the microsoft windows operating system, which remains strong with piracy.
Pretty much. More people know about the product the more money would come their way, less people know about the product the less money would come their way.
It does, your forgetting they aren’t going for the person who downloads anime or manga from any old website, it’s those that profit from it from ad renvue in their websites.
there is nothing wrong with ad revenue from the site, i would see an issue if there is actual sale, now thats making fun of people that work and should be punished. Piracy in itself as much more benefits than demerits
Sounds like some old guys who have no idea how to turn on a computer making a laws for the internet.
Its like providers locking content behind a paywall complaining that people are watching illegally because they don’t want to pay. The solution is simple, offer a service for free with a catch(Be it ads or whatever) to get people watching the legal way.
I would say anyone who isn’t naive about the internet knows that there’s very little you can do to stop piracy. Even forcing providers to block websites is easily worked around with a proxy. Heavy handedness just doesn’t work because once something is out there it can easily be obtained.
We all know that ads don’t help because people just use adblock and/or the website overuses them (like Youtube).
You can force ads into a video, that and there are scripts which detect adblock and won’t let you use the website until you disable.
Like 99% of Jewmers these days.
Well, to be fair Jews are far worse than this. They up their own ass with their God Complex and trying so hard with their world domination Agenda 21.
Coronavirus, you know who your targets are now. Do your job.
Please note that our community drives this, if we are not allowed to document and appreciate this, then what good is it?additional note the government of abe is a puppet of the usual (globalist)
Chinese people?
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People trying to stop their products from being stolen? f♥♥k off
You f♥♥k off, faggot. I only ever bought things after getting to read manga online. Because some s♥♥t is too goddamn obscure to be found. In one piece case, I could get that as a complaint if I didn’t go out of my way to get one piece fucking merch that is more expensive. Boo fucking hoo, I don’t want to buy the manga but I buy all their other s♥♥t. Piss off.
stop being retarded, its free advertisment. Piracy never stopped anyone from being sucessful or rich for the matter, look at music industry, every single fcker that shows on tv or radio is pratically swimming in millions and millions more will dl their music, watch it on yt..use your brain dumb f♥♥k
selective perspective
piracy never hurted anyone. whoever is good/entertaining it will do well cause there will be people that want to support if they cant, thats all, also more benefits than demerits, facts speak louder than your pea sized brain you dumb f♥♥k
And who is paying for this you fucking parasite? Pro-copyright are entitled cunts who thinks the rest of the population owe them protection for free.
As opposed to the pro-piracy faction who thinks that artists and publishers owe them entertainment for free?
They do owe them entertainment for free, because they leech of “pro-piracy” faction taxes that are used to enforce copyright without ever asking pro-piracy faction if they agree on their money being spent that way. If you think you can just use goverment to point a gun at somebody and rob of their income just because you can get away with it then guess what – we can also get away with shitting on your copyright laws and not follow them, because they are almost impossible to enforce.
>stolen
*as if anybody could physically remove all copyrighted goods from sale to share for free*
Item you never lost possession of doesn’t qualify as “stolen”, to begin with. Digital products work that way. You may claim authorship of such an item, but not loss of possession of the item itself. Not to mention the virtually non-existant cost and limit of producing copies of the original.
but how am I going to know that I like it if I can’t take a sample?
A trailer is your sample. Downloading the whole fucking show and never paying for it later is not a sample, you dumbfuck!
A trailer of a manga… I’d like to see such samples. I’m not sure if that’s going to be enough. A lot of the mangas I checked out barely pass the first panel. When it does happen to pass the first panel, even fewer making it pass the first chapter. There’s just too many shitty mangas out there to waste your time on.
You are allowed to 1 frame for a 10+ pages work. Such a comprehensive sample!
A weapon to surpasses Metal-Gear…
Blanc’s cleveage.
Ugh! Too cute, too strong.
That’s why I clicked!