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NEWS: Anime Production Companies, Manga Publishers Crack Down on Piracy

Thank you for these links! I've heard Japan was pretty backwards technlogicaly as of late, but I had no idea it was this bad I always laugh at the logic of 'We don't want to put our content online legally- because then it would be easy to pirate'. As if it's easier to capture a stream at a constant bitrate than to just rip a DVD or CD

With so many opinions on how this isn't going to stop piracy, did anyone actually read the article? If not, let me point something out:

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The Ministry of Economy estimated damages of two trillion yen (US$19.6 billion) from America in 2013.

Can anyone at ANN get in contact with the Ministry of Economy and ask how they determined this number because it's absurd.

In 2012, Hollywood broke an earnings record of $10.7 billion, and the MoE expects us to believe anime lost more than Hollywood?

Dpn't forget about the $5.5 billion supposedly lost in China.

This kind of crap is one reason the piracy debate will never end. One side lies about losing billions, and the other side justifies the piracy because those billions aren't going to the artists.

Just once, I'd like to see actual proof loses are attributed to piracy instead of bloated, unrealistic, and insulting numbers coming from the industry stating billions aren't enough to keep the content coming.

The industry has a problem of rolling out 40 series in a season, with most at 13 episodes, for an estimated cost of $150k per episode (I'll even boost this to $200k), the number sits at around $105 million? Even with padded costs, we could throw up $300 million for an entire year.

France maintained its position at No. 5 in the world market rankings with music sales totaling $956 million (up 1.3%), while Australia was No. 6 with $430 million (down 8.4%). The rest of the Top 10 was rounded out by Canada ($424 million, down 2.5%), Italy ($238 million, up 8.3%), Brazil ($228 million, down 1.7%) and South Korea ($211 million, up 9.7%), which enters the top 10 for the first time, displacing the Netherlands.

Last year’s surplus was measured at $167.1 million, more than double of the $64.9 million for 2012, which marked the first time Korea posted a trade surplus in this account.

Korea’s pop music products, movies and television programs combined for $461 million in exports last year, a 13 percent increase from 2012.

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The Ministry of Economy estimated damages of two trillion yen (US$19.6 billion) from America in 2013.

Can anyone at ANN get in contact with the Ministry of Economy and ask how they determined this number because it's absurd.

Every single time a piracy issue comes up, we have people taking up a deontological standpoint - if it's a law, it must be followed. However, have you stopped to think and question? Are the laws outdated? What does that law serve to achieve? Does piracy actually cause any harm?

we're still looking at a total market for anime and manga in the US that is about a fifth the alleged costs from piracy.

However there is another problem. while its good their doing something about it, unfortunately they never said anything about curbing piracy when it comes to 18+ OVAs like some of those lilith / Pixy titles and many others. Cause if fansubbers and illegal streamers can't do their stuff with the non ero series, then they would just move on with the ero series.

yuna49 wrote:

we're still looking at a total market for anime and manga in the US that is about a fifth the alleged costs from piracy.

I don't think this is unreasonable at all. Episodes of popular anime do numbers in the hundreds of thousands on torrent sites, plus all the people streaming, you can probably double that easily. I don't know any numbers for scanlations but I imagine its incredibly high compared to book sales.

And 'hundreds of thousands' is a bit of an exaggeration.

what proportion of those people would be prepared to spend money to watch if that were the only choice?

pirates who wouldn't watch a show if it is not free don't cost the producers anything

Stark700 wrote:

Yeah good luck with this.... Get rid of one site and more emerges to take its place.

which is why the us should have passed sopa and pipa which would have helped with the online piracy.but the big thing that will help is making acquiring licensing rights more cheaper and easier. also companies like nintendo will have to release pokemon eps with official subs and also have the english dub that's using the original japaneese scripts. otherwise that anime series will always be prone to fansubbing groups. the same with other popular anime series in japan that never got released in the US.

And that video that showed a person buying a Japanese dvd !!! you know how expensive they are !!! that system must also change in order to make a bigger profit by just having more unit's sold instead.

Modern technology means that it has become possible for large numbers of people to become online thugs and trample on the legitimate rights of the creators of content. And because that thuggery results in freeloader getting to have content "for free", a side effect has been the development of piles of rationalizations for that thuggery, as to why those who did not do the work "ought to have" the right to exploit those who did do the work.

It follows that interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a copyright: "`Anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner,' that is, anyone who trespasses into his exclusive domain by using or authorizing the use of the copyrighted work in one of the five ways set forth in the statute, `is an infringer of the copyright.' [17 U.S.C.] 501(a)." Sony Corp., supra, at 433. There is no dispute in this case that Dowling's unauthorized inclusion on his bootleg albums of performances of copyrighted compositions constituted infringement of those copyrights. It is less clear, however, that the taking that occurs when an infringer arrogates the use of another's protected work comfortably fits the terms associated with physical removal employed by 2314. The infringer invades a statutorily defined province guaranteed to the copyright holder alone. But he does not assume physical control over the copyright; nor does he wholly deprive its owner of its use. While one may colloquially link infringement with some general notion of wrongful [473 U.S. 207, 218] appropriation, infringement plainly implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft, conversion, or fraud. As a result, it fits but awkwardly with the language Congress chose - "stolen, converted or taken by fraud" - to describe the sorts of goods whose interstate shipment 2314 makes criminal. 8 "And, when interpreting a criminal statute that does not explicitly reach the conduct in question, we are reluctant to base an expansive reading on inferences drawn from subjective and variable `understandings.'" Williams v. United States, 458 U.S., at 286 .