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Japan’s First-Ever Arrest for Uploading Unauthorized Gameplay Videos


all i can really say is damn.
 

Hexasheep93

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Yeah Japan its just incredibly ridiculous with its copyright law. I cant imagine they keep him locked up for long tho right?
 

Taruby

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The source for that Sankaku article doesn't go into that much detail, and seem to make it all about Let's Playing an ADV game.

EDIT: This is his Youtube channel if you want to see what he uploaded (or archive it before it's taken down entirely):

Yahoo News

Youtuber Arrested on Suspicion of Publishing Animation Videos without Permission (May 18th):

He also uploaded two episodes of Spy x Family to his Youtube channel, and was discovered by Cyberpatrol (wiki). Something that should be noted about Japan is if the police arrest you for anything, you have a choice of denying the allegations and sitting in a holding cell for 23~ days on suspicion of a crime without charge until you're hopefully released cause the police cannot build a case to prosecute you in court. But 23~ days is a long time, so for anyone with common sense, it's just cheaper to admit to your crime, even if you're totally innocent, so you can pay whatever fine and resume your life. I doubt this guy is going to sit in a prison cell.

Publishing 'Spy x Family' etc. on Youtube without Permission (May 19th):


"I knew it was illegal, but I did it for living expenses."

This incident doesn't strike me as any different from Sweden's copyright law. It's alright to do whatever you want with media, so long as you are not making money off someone else's copyright. Which is why overseas media companies went after The Pirate Bay; those guys were making a fortune from advertising revenue distributing torrents. Of course, clueless individuals bought into the propaganda this stuff is merely copyright holders pointlessly trying to fight a losing battle against a hydra in a futile effort to stop copyright infringement, but that's completely the opposite of the truth. They only went after The Pirate Bay because there's money involved. Same as what happened with Megaupload; that guy was getting rich, and copyright lawyers wanted his money to blow on hookers and coke.

Now that Youtubers are making a lot of money on advertising revenue distributing videos of anime, games, and music without permission, it's prime time for copyright holders to bring these fat cows to the slaughterhouse. Everything in this world is about money, and it's really so long as you're not making money that you can fly under the radar of the copyright lawyer wolves.

Japan is unique in that it has a doujinshi culture in places like Comiket where people make money on copyright infringement. This has always been considered a grey area with incidents like the one involving the Touhou fan anime which ZUN was worried would transcend what everyone agreed upon. That copyright infringement should remain small and at events like Comiket. Not outside in the wider commercial realm where it competes with the original work. Now that everyone is on the internet, this grey area is seeping out with Japanese creators mimicking western influence of Youtuber culture, which is somewhat based on game creators using Youtubers as a means to advertise their games, which requires some partnership between game creator and Youtuber. If the Steins:Gate creators do not want to partner with some 50 year old Japanese dude to advertise their game, then his existence is merely that of a ripened pig.

You Tubeなんて音楽や映像、アニメ、違法動画で成り立っていると言っても過言ではないくらい違法動画で溢れている。 昔の劣化した録画映像のテレビ番組の動画だって立派な著作権の侵害だし、全てを厳格に取り締まったらYou Tubeは衰退するだろうね。 綺麗な新作アニメの動画を最初から最後までアップしてそれで金儲けしてるのは論外だけど、例えばプロレスラーや野球選手が昔の映像をYou Tubeで見て懐かしい思い出を語ったり、当人達も活用してる部分もあるし、昔のお笑い番組や絶版になったり今はもう見れない貴重な映像を見ることが出来たり資料としての価値もあるので線引がとても難しいと思う。 You Tube側にしたって違法動画に広告つけて儲けてるわけで、何かしらルール作りは必要ではあるのかなと。
パトロールお疲れ様です。まだまだこのような人はいっぱいいるので頑張ってもらいたいです
(今回は字幕をつける手間はあったにせよ)他人が作った映像をまるごとパクって収入にする、なんて恥ずかしい事がよくできるね
商用コンテンツを商用利用したらアウトやで
こういうニュースはもっと大きく取り扱って下さい。 アニメやテレビ番組など何人もの制作者が苦労して生み出したものを、簡単に違法アップロードしてお金を稼いでいる犯罪者をバンバン取り締まって欲しいです。
I like this comment regarding why a 50 year old man would upload his videos to Youtube:
良い悪いは置いといて、日本はかなりの貧困化が進んでる。 少子化より先に貧困化をなんとかしないと子供育てる余裕もないし、自分の生活ですらまともにできない貧困層が加速度的に増加していくという事は、それだけ犯罪に手を染める人が増えるという事。 昔と違って今は外にある盗めそうな物、金になる物はどんどん盗まれる日本になってきてる。 ここ20年で40代以下の刑法犯割合はそれほど変化ないのに、50代以上は何倍にもなってる。生活のできない高齢者が急増していってる。
容疑者の言い分である「生活費のために動画を投稿した」なんて苦し紛れの言い訳に過ぎない。押収した品々を見れば一目瞭然で特段、困窮していた訳でもない。実際は「楽して稼げるから動画を投稿していた」というのが本当のところだと思うぞ。
中国人による日本ドラマの違法アップロードが止まらない。 捨て垢で広告収入をちゃっかりゲット、なのに日本の主権が及ばないのでやられ放題。 削除されても別の垢で再アップのいたちごっこ。 そして、それを見る日本人の如何に多いことか。 例えば、渡る世間は鬼ばかり。
 
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Hexasheep93

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The source for that Sankaku article doesn't go into that much detail, and seem to make it all about Let's Playing an ADV game.

EDIT: This is his Youtube channel if you want to see what he uploaded (or archive it before it's taken down entirely):

Yahoo News

Youtuber Arrested on Suspicion of Publishing Animation Videos without Permission (May 18th):

He also uploaded two episodes of Spy x Family to his Youtube channel, and was discovered by Cyberpatrol (wiki). Something that should be noted about Japan is if the police arrest you for anything, you have a choice of denying the allegations and sitting in a holding cell for 23~ days on suspicion of a crime without charge until you're hopefully released cause the police cannot build a case to prosecute you in court. But 23~ days is a long time, so for anyone with common sense, it's just cheaper to admit to your crime, even if you're totally innocent, so you can pay whatever fine and resume your life. I doubt this guy is going to sit in a prison cell.

Publishing 'Spy x Family' etc. on Youtube without Permission (May 19th):


"I knew it was illegal, but I did it for living expenses."

This incident doesn't strike me as any different from Sweden's copyright law. It's alright to do whatever you want with media, so long as you are not making money off someone else's copyright. Which is why overseas media companies went after The Pirate Bay; those guys were making a fortune from advertising revenue distributing torrents. Of course, clueless individuals bought into the propaganda this stuff is merely copyright holders pointlessly trying to fight a losing battle against a hydra in a futile effort to stop copyright infringement, but that's completely the opposite of the truth. They only went after The Pirate Bay because there's money involved. Same as what happened with Megaupload; that guy was getting rich, and copyright lawyers wanted his money to blow on hookers and coke.

Now that Youtubers are making a lot of money on advertising revenue distributing videos of anime, games, and music without permission, it's prime time for copyright holders to bring these fat cows to the slaughterhouse. Everything in this world is about money, and it's really so long as you're not making money that you can fly under the radar of the copyright lawyer wolves.

Japan is unique in that it has a doujinshi culture in places like Comiket where people make money on copyright infringement. This has always been considered a grey area with incidents like the one involving the Touhou fan anime which ZUN was worried would transcend what everyone agreed upon. That copyright infringement should remain small and at events like Comiket. Not outside in the wider commercial realm where it competes with the original work. Now that everyone is on the internet, this grey area is seeping out with Japanese creators mimicking western influence of Youtuber culture, which is somewhat based on game creators using Youtubers as a means to advertise their games, which requires some partnership between game creator and Youtuber.
Interesting. I guess he was basically uploading illegal copies of anime and the sort.

Still I find it quite crazy that they would straight up arrest him. Couldnt they just have sent him a fine and deleted his content if that was what they were gonna do anyways? I admit though I am not familiar with how the japanese justice system works so it may not be an option


Also interesting note about those comments. I think it really highlights the difference in views on this topic between japan and the west. I mean im pretty sure that even those who are very critical of piracy would not be ok over a guy being straight up arrested. I dont really have an opinion on it just thought it was an interesting observation.

also regarding that 50 year comment well its true that its been hard times for everyone really
 
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