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NEWS: Japan's CODA, Companies From 12 Other Countries to Form International Anti-Piracy Organization

They'll never get the results they want with this new organization. It's a waste of time and money. Not to mention there will be protests and backlash against it. These companies will never learn.

According to Nikkei Asia, piracy cost the manga industry approximately 800 billion yen (US$6.92 billion) in Japan alone from January-October 2021. Nikkei Asia stated that number exceeds the amount of the entire market for authorized publications, which it estimated at 600 billion yen (about US$5.19 billion) yearly.

So that means all non-legal manga and anime sites will end up shuting down because of it? That makes me worried, because most legal manga sites are still inaccessible(MangaPlus exist but it has only 3 first and last chapters, which is bad). Ditto anime sites (-cough- Funimation).
Piracy bad but region locked ''good''.

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According to Nikkei Asia, piracy cost the manga industry approximately 800 billion yen (US$6.92 billion) in Japan alone from January-October 2021. Nikkei Asia stated that number exceeds the amount of the entire market for authorized publications, which it estimated at 600 billion yen (about US$5.19 billion) yearly.

*claps* Downloads. Do. Not. Equal. Lost. Sales. How the hell are companies still pushing this ridiculous myth in 2021? Hell, torrenting things over the years has wound up making me spend significantly more than if I hadn't downloaded them.

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According to Nikkei Asia, piracy cost the manga industry approximately 800 billion yen (US$6.92 billion) in Japan alone from January-October 2021. Nikkei Asia stated that number exceeds the amount of the entire market for authorized publications, which it estimated at 600 billion yen (about US$5.19 billion) yearly.

*claps* Downloads. Do. Not. Equal. Lost. Sales. How the hell are companies still pushing this ridiculous myth in 2021? Hell, torrenting things over the years has wound up making me spend significantly more than if I hadn't downloaded them.

Top Gun wrote:

Quote: According to Nikkei Asia, piracy cost the manga industry approximately 800 billion yen (US$6.92 billion) in Japan alone from January-October 2021. Nikkei Asia stated that number exceeds the amount of the entire market for authorized publications, which it estimated at 600 billion yen (about US$5.19 billion) yearly. *claps* Downloads. Do. Not. Equal. Lost. Sales. How the hell are companies still pushing this ridiculous myth in 2021? Hell, torrenting things over the years has wound up making me spend significantly more than if I hadn't downloaded them.

Many in Japan agree with the idea that illegal downloading is stealing. Even if it doesn't result in any losses from the original author. Even in cases where it was initially available for free and the author is distributing it without revenue. They still think it is criminal for others to redistribute them through elsewhere. They think the act of pirating is morally wrong and even if it help boosted their fame and their revenue they still think this is something that is damaging should never happen. Probably a reason why many Japanese artists adopt NFT as those token of ownership to a link of copy of an image seems like a legitimate idea in the eyes of a number of Japanese people. Three years ago Japanese government have tried to argue piracy damaged creators human right as it threaten their life, and thus internet censorship is needed to protect creators from piracy sites, because their right to survive as a Japanese national is more important than the nation's constitution protection on freedom of communication and they think piracy is ruining that. At the time most polls in Japan shows majority of Japanese people support such move. Only a few legal experts voiced concern on technicalities of such way to bypass the national constitution.

Also Japan: refuses to make certain digital content available to buy outside the country for no good reason at all. I don't even mean anime, I mean manga, books, music, audio dramas... Here I am, trying to pay money for the products, and they simply refuse to let me do it. As such, currently I'm actually purchasing them illegally, as ridiculous as that sounds, not to mention risking my own data privacy, since I have to VPN my way in to be able to buy in the stores that allow me to use a not Japanese-issued card.

Not to mention, when it comes to digital content Japan is still pushing people toward physical! Some magazines have print-only content. Ebooks and audio content may be still released weeks or months after physical release. Ebooks are DRM'd to hell and back and can only be read in proprietary apps, say good-bye to ebook readers (aside of Kindle I guess, but I wouldn't know, as Amazon.jp doesn't allow me to buy digital content). And so on and so forth.

So frankly, I'm sick and tired of this "omg but piracy" thing. Is piracy a problem? Maybe, I suppose. But let's not pretend that at least part of that problem is Japan not being able to develop a 21st century mindset and keeping its content unavailable from outside the country.

I think they see it as their right to limit their content availability
Like a certain novel release 8 different short stories per volumes on average. But they're available in 8 different physical chain stores in Japan only. So you need to buy 8 copies of the novel from 8 different physical stores everytime a new volume is released to read all of the stories. And they think it is a sustainable growth strategy that will allow them to sell more books.

c933103 wrote:

I think they see it as their right to limit their content availability Like a certain novel release 8 different short stories per volumes on average. But they're available in 8 different physical chain stores in Japan only. So you need to buy 8 copies of the novel from 8 different physical stores everytime a new volume is released to read all of the stories. And they think it is a sustainable growth strategy that will allow them to sell more books.

Not really comparable. In your example, living in Japan, nothing's stopping you from buying the different editions. If you're region-blocked outside Japan, that's not possible.