

Despite being intended for learners of Japanese, videos of busty YouTube inhabitant “Hannah Minx” have lately been proving popular amongst the Japanese themselves, though for reasons unrelated to any conventional form of education…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 3, 2011 20:19 JST
- Tags: Business, Copyright, DVD Extras, Internet, Marketing, P2P, Politics, Statistics, YouTube

Japan’s prestigious Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), a government-affiliated economics think-tank, has published detailed research suggesting anime piracy can boost disc sales.
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Houkago no Pleiades, an unusual mahou shoujo ONA (“Original Net Animation”) project made by Gainax and sponsored by metal box maker Subaru, has received much praise for exuding the overwhelming cuteness expected of a mahou shoujo anime.
Those wishing to see just how cute it is, or indeed to watch the full episodes, can do so below.
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Not satisfied with the kerfuffle he caused with his J-Comi launch remarks, mangaka Ken Akamatsu is now picking a fight with NicoNico Douga, accusing them of profiting by stealing the works of others without giving them proper compensation.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Aug 14, 2010 01:40 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Google, K-ON!, Moe, Music, PSP, Sega, TBS, TV, YouTube

K-ON! TV broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System has deleted videos of Sega’s upcoming K-ON! game on the grounds of copyright infringement.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jun 15, 2010 02:23 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Internet, Nagoya, Naruto, One Piece, Schoolboys, Shonen, YouTube

A schoolboy who uploaded manga to YouTube in advance of its release has been arrested for copyright infringement.
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K-On’s infectious ending theme “Don’t Say Lazy” has been remixed and combined with one of the more popular internet memes of late, Bollywood star Daler Mehndi’s famous Punjabi song “Tunak Tunak Tun” in this entertaining MAD: Read the rest of this entry »

Megumi Nakajima, the young seiyuu-singer that made her debut last year as Macross F’s moeful Ranka Lee, has had her own Youtube Channel open yesterday, simultaneously with her 20th birthday.
Given her youth and rookie status (she has only Ranka and Basquash!’s Citron to her name), a personal Youtube Channel, definitely something of a rarity among seiyuu, can be seen as another publicity stunt of sorts, similar to last year’s dancing video on Nico.
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Not satisfied with making their founder into the world’s most influential person, 4chan has flooded cat video sharing site YouTube with pornographic videos, declaring it “International Porn Day.”
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A video of a cat in a tube stolen from YouTube is the latest hit video on NucoNuco Douga, proving once again that cats are an integral element of online popularity.
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YouTube has decided to cripple its Korean site rather than comply with a new law which would force it to publish the real names of all contributors and commenters on the site.
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Chinese Internet users have recently been completely unable to access YouTube, the popular video service operated by US search firm, Google. The service had apparently been blocked by Chinese authorities.
YouTube has of course previously been censored, but in this case the length of the block is exceptional.
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