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

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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.

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Your thoughts on this?

 

[Aoihime]

Whaaaaaa no more manga panda and kissanime?!:|

 

[fuuton]

Thank God it's only on Chinese sites

 

[Complex]

Are you serious 0_0

 

[Six Paths]

Oh god...Not looking that good...

 

[RinneBlitz]

Oh, they better leave MP and MS be.......

 

[rollin]

Looks like I might have to buy a subscription to viz

 

[Takaflame]

Interesting I've been hearing about this for awhile now. Won't this make even more people create new sites? oh well let's see what happens

 

[Complex]

Okay we're safe, they're only targeting the Chinese sites..For now

 

[The8thGateBeast]

Lol good for them.

 

[take it easy]

it's only for chinese sites.

 

[RinneBlitz]

Looks like I might have to buy a subscription to viz

Let's send The Coon and Friends to stop 'dem Japanese lol.

 

[JackelLord]

Uh Ohh! Spagetti O's

 

[Gintõki1]

If it's only the chinese sites, i'm okay with that. lol

 

[NarutoB]

Good, that's what you all get, freeloaders.

 

[Naruto X Hunter]

Thank God it's only on Chinese sites

"there appears to be no end of illegal uploading of anime and manga via pirate sites, mainly operated by Chinese."


Mainly chinese sites,not only.

 

[Memento Mori]

Are they targeting Chinese sites only?Aren't we getting Illegal raw scans from Chinese Illegal Sites?

 

[Young Thug]

we're still not recovering from *********** taking a big hit, and now this? damn it why must we be pirates?:T_T:

 

[sammypt Miyamoto Musashi]

Just like "life finds a way"...anime's and manga will find their way online. Pretty sure they have cracked down in the past. If anything it might take 5 minutes of searching instead of bringing up your usual site. I'd pay a $5/wk subscription if they made it easy and contained all the manga and anime I wanted.....which would be hard considering diferent companies and whatnot....oh well, no sense worrying or complaining until it happens! Not like you can petition them to keep letting us read or watch copyrighted material for free! Lol Now if maybe the sites could figure out a way to pay them for the material based on views or something? Idk

 

[fuuton]

"there appears to be no end of illegal uploading of anime and manga via pirate sites, mainly operated by Chinese."


Mainly chinese sites,not only.

thanks! Missed that xD.. Thoug we're still on the safeside atm