Japan's 2 Trillion Yen Manga & Anime Piracy War Gets New Hollywood Backing * TorrentFreak
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Anti-piracy group CODA's war against online piracy has received renewed backing from the Hollywood studios & Netflix. The timing was perfect.
  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    88·
    7 months ago

    If only these groups spent all that money in underserved areas and paying artists. Classically, they’ll instead go after the people filling their own service gaps.

    • Sneezycat@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      30·
      7 months ago

      They don’t care about the artists lol it’s about the distributors losing potential revenue.

  • Calavera@lemm.eeEnglish
    49·
    7 months ago

    Fuck them.

    They take ages to localize Mangas, even famous ones like Jojo. If it wasn’t for the community, Manga and Anime would have just a small fraction of attention it has today

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      16·
      7 months ago

      They tried it with Tachiyomi.
      Reader apps and programs are infinitely harder to recover from the just sending a lawyer to mangadex.

      Anyway, they tried taking down Tachiyomi.
      They bullied the maintainer successfully and the Tachiyomi team first removed the in-built functionaility for the sources then seized development on the app as a whole.
      Due to Tachiyomi being FOSS (thanks again to all the devs) one of the primary maintainers forked and renamed the project :)
      And now we are back to square one with Mihon :)

  • Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    26·
    7 months ago

    piracy is a service problem~

    also of note, they never account for the fact that piracy increases sales in some aspects, without piracy - anime = small. buying physical books when they come on sale for a series you read online? yes, I have a nice collection. Merch, and so forth.

  • shani66@ani.socialEnglish
    23·
    7 months ago

    There is a war on piracy in Japan? Huh. Guess the fact i haven’t even noticed speaks to how well it’s going.

  • N_Crow@leminal.spaceEnglish
    10·
    7 months ago

    Good luck at that! Says he, while knowing full well there’s at least 5 tabs open right now on his tablet to websites hosting manga to read online