Japanese publishers are getting more aggressive going after piracy sites, and in one case publisher PCR Distributing is taking legal action against the site nHentai. Quite a bit of PCR Distributing’s adult work ends up on nHentai, where the piracy site is offering it for …Read more »
A number of anime piracy sites have shut down recently, and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment coalition is involved with at least some of it. Aniwave, a particularly big piracy site, had this on its screen: “Creating better products that provide an improved user …Read more »
Piracy is an issue the manga industry is dealing with, and the Authorized Books of Japan (ABJ) organization wants to not only fight this issue, but use international papers to thank fans who read manga through proper channels like buying copies or lending from libraries. …Read more »
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 »
Danica Davidson
