Japanese Government to Start Anti-Anime/Manga Piracy Operation Next Month

[Monsi]

 

In cooperation with 15 major anime production companies and manga publishers, the Japanese government will next month start a huge extermination operation against 580 foreign sites which have illegally uploaded anime and manga contents on the web without the copyright holders' permission, NHK reported on July 28. While the government has started supporting the genre as one of their important cultural exports, there appears to be no end of illegal uploading of anime and manga via pirate sites, mainly operated by Chinese. The Cultural Affairs Agency estimates the loss caused by the Chinese pirate sites last year was amounted to at least 560 billion yen (about US$ 5.5 billion).

 

On August 1, the government will start simultaneously sending requests to delete illegal anime and manga contents to the operators of the 580 foreign pirate sites which they have found. In addition, the operation will launch a new site to guide the fans to a legitimate site offering some 250 titles including

the latest ones at a cost of several hundred yen.

 

Link: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/07/28/japanese-government-to-start-anti-animemanga-piracy-operation-next-month

 

Looks like our happy days are about to be over.

[Balthazar Manfredie]

we will survive

people will get their hands on the animes one way or another

[OldJustal]

If the manga publishers tried to make the manga more available for foreign fans , more people would havr been able to buy the manga to support the author/publisher. But the manga piblishers aren't big enough to distribute through out the world. But many foreign publishers don't pick uo DC because it's so long.

And noe the Japanese goverment finally decided to takr action ....

[75aichan]

this is getting worse,another bad news for us...I hope there will be a way to still get the manga files.

[MelloLily]

Side note, I already posted about this: http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/5200-japan-to-start-anti-animemanga-piracy-operation/

 

Plus, I think you put this in the wrong board.  It isn't Detective Conan specific news.

 

I would also recommend going to the other thread (nothing against your's) because there are a lot of in-depth conversations on how it will affect us.

[Monsi]

Side note, I already posted about this: http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/5200-japan-to-start-anti-animemanga-piracy-operation/

 

Plus, I think you put this in the wrong board.  It isn't Detective Conan specific news.

 

I would also recommend going to the other thread (nothing against your's) because there are a lot of in-depth conversations on how it will affect us.

 

Yeah, I realized that after posting this. I'm just waiting for this to be deleted or moved or locked.

[MelloLily]

Meh, I don't think it will be deleted or moved.  It being in two boards, more likely people will see it.