Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com dvdnet62 @feddit.nl 6 mo. ago

Japan seeks international coordination to thwart online manga, anime piracy

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By making us able to actually buy them, right? Right? 🫠
Piracy is a service problem
- Japan clearly doesn't understand they need to make a Steam for manga.
  
  Easy billions
- Give me something that's not worse than pirate sites and I'll throw money at you. Crunchyroll was great for that few months when it went legit before it enshat.
  
  I should never be in awe at the quality of the pirate sites over the liegit services.
- speak for yourself, I'll go for the free option
- In general, yes, but in this case I don't think there's any way for the service to beat piracy even if the service was just as good (which it isn't). Take the One Piece manga, for example. A lot of people read it from illegitimate sources simply because they can manage to release it two to three days earlier than the official every week. You can read it for free online in your local language once the magazine reach the shelves in Japan, but even that is too late because the contents gets leaked while all the partners are preparing for that simultaneous release.
  
  A lot of people read it from illegitimate sources simply because they can manage to release it two to three days earlier than the official every week.
  
  This still sounds like a service problem.
  
  "No, because *proceeds to explain the definition of a service problem *"
  
  My guy if they export only some mangas and animes, much slower, and with lower quality than pirates, then shoot the characters with the american ray; why should i pay them instead of having a superior and closer to original experience?
  
  I'm already paying for HDDs and other hardware for my home media library, I'd rather pay for a service and save my time, but they won't do it right.
  
  In this case I'd say it's more of a "I'd need a bookcase specifically for that 1000+ manga"
Let's fight piracy!!!

People outside japan can buy the 1000000 mangas available? We have a way to translate this many mangas? Do we have a fucking online service that doesn't suck a lot? People have any hope to read legally that one random obscure manga that doesn't even exist anymore beside some random piracy site? But we gonna fight piracy anyway!!!

This kinda o shit + nintendo + sony fills my hatred for Japanese companies, more bullshit and I'll become more powerful in the dark side than Palpatine.
- Hey hey now. Don't hate the companies themselves. They're playing the legal game in the exact, only way the rules allow it to be played. If they don't, the law and the shareholders fuck them up instead.
  
  Edit: I guess tone is hard to convey through text, so let me be clear:
  
  Companies bad.
  
  But also:
  
  Just hate the copyright law itself, directly. Its only reason for existence is so rich fucks get richer, safer, and should be just abolished.
  
  (45 minute video by Uniquenameosaurus, who also has done an incredible series of videos on the practical ethics of media piracy, with a focus on anime as a jumping off point).
  
  "Don't hate the companies, hate the people who lobbied for copyright laws... the companies!"
  
  The companies are to blame for the maintaining bullshit laws like this, but also Japanese companies in particular are the most aggressive and putrid with copyright laws. Sony probably makes more money from copyrighted music on youtube than selling exclusive games for the PS5.
  
  Edit: Btw the real blame in the end of the day is the late stage capitalism that we live in.
  
  I don't agree with that video, and I'm sure that a good chunk of talented creators wouldn't appreciate losing control of their own works. Copyright needs to be rewritten, but abolished is quite a huge overcorrection
  
  companies should please share holders and share holders should profit from their shares as much as possible, the whole cycle is fucked when one of them becomes greedier.
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  should be just abolished
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
That's what happens when you let Crunchyroll and Funimation merge. Im going to be the pirate king!
- mfers raised the yearly price from 80 USD to 100 this year, and then they sent me an email that next year it'll be 120! a 50% increase in two years, insane.
- Crunchyroll started as a pirate site didn't it?
Speaking of thwarting piracy, how about Japan stops slaughtering whales and respecting the treaties they have signed first?
- Protecting corporate interests is so hot right now though.
  
  Always has been.
- I never thought I'd call out a whataboutism over whatever the hell this is.
  
  It's a half-pun about actual piracy. Not sure if illegal fishing is actually considered piracy, but that's the idea.
Pirates do what Nintendon't
The answer has always been I2P! they can nothing against what is shared on it!
- Second that, I wish i2p was more popular.
I won't be pirating manga if I can actually pay for them. Some apps exist, like mangaplus, but they pale in comparison to something like tachiyomi. And then there is webtoon which shoves an ad in my face even though I purchase content weekly to read. And webnovel is atrocious with how I have to wait 5 seconds for an ad before they show me yet another ad every time I open the app. I just use koreader now for novels. I do buy physical volumes to show some support back. But a Korean series that I am reading does not have a novel published overseas, kind of a bummer.
They accomplish that and the already diminutive presence they have in the world will shrink even more.

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