Yesterday the Tokyo District Court said the operator of the infamous Manga-Mura manga piracy site has to give publishers Kadokawa, Shueisha and Shogakukan 1.7 billion yen. That’s a little under 11 million dollars. The publishers had started out by asking for 1.9 billion yen in …Read more »
Four people involved with the major anime piracy site B9GOOD were found guilty and sentenced at the People’s Court of Taizhou Pharmaceutical High-Tech Industrial Development Zone in China. The piracy site was aimed at people in Japan. The names of the people were not given. …Read more »
Yesterday two men in Japan were arrested because police believe they committed copyright infringement by stealing pages from Weekly Shonen Jump and posting them online before the chapters were scheduled to come out. The men, whose names were not listed in the report, are not …Read more »
The Mainichi Shimbun, a major Japanese news outlet, picked up a story of a Japanese artist in the Kansai region who had her work stolen and changed by AI after she came out against AI-made artwork. The artist’s name was not given. She made a …Read more »
Everyone makes mistakes, and the mistake made by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, which is part of the Japanese government, is an ironic one. The agency is part of Japan’s multifaceted efforts to fight anime and manga piracy, but for months the website accidentally listed …Read more »
A YouTuber in Nagoya, Japan is in hot water for allegedly putting up footage of video games and anime on YouTube and profiting off these, as he’s not involved in the creation or distribution of the content he shared. In fact, all of this has …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is currently in theaters, but at least nine million people also watched it on Twitter. This is because of an illegal, pirated upload put up by the Twitter handle “vids that go hard.” Every time a few minutes passed, about …Read more »
Dealing with COVID has had a lot more people at home watching anime, but it’s also led to a lot more piracy of anime. The Content Overseas Distribution Association, a watchdog located in Tokyo, crunched numbers on how online piracy has affected video, books, video …Read more »
A website based in China called b9good has been removed by Chinese authorities. And it’s not for censorship reasons like has happened before when the current Chinese government has decided it wants to crack down on art it doesn’t like. b9good was a major piracy …Read more »
Variety Intelligence Platform did a report on the most pirated TV shows in America, and discovered that five of the top 10 are anime titles. All the anime titles in question are licensed in America, currently streaming, and easy to access legally. HBO’s House of …Read more »
Pirating manga and anime is hurting many creators and causing companies to lose billions. The Japanese government has been clamping down more on piracy, and other countries have also said they would help out. However, one country just announced that not only will it not …Read more »
Manga piracy is a major issue. For instance, between January-October 2021, piracy in Japan caused manga creators and publishers to lose 800 billion yen (about $6.92 billion), which is more than the creators and publishers legally made during that time. Manga publishers are responding in …Read more »
Manga piracy, which steals from creators, is a major problem in Japan and abroad. Even though there are many legal places to get manga, people continue to illegally download it online, including at the massive Japanese site Mangamura. While Mangamura has been shut down, the …Read more »
Now that it’s 2022, numbers are being crunched to see how many manga sold last year . . . and how many were illegally read through piracy sites. The results are pretty sobering. All that piracy in 2021 bilked manga creators and publishers out of …Read more »
Piracy is a major issue hitting the manga and anime worlds, especially during COVID with so many people homebound. Take a look at these numbers: from January to October last year, piracy in Japan bilked creators and publishers out of 800 billion yen (about $6.92 …Read more »
Danica Davidson
