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Keroro Gunsō x 'NO MORE Movie Thief,'" sees Keroro and his fellow aliens quickly captured when they attempt to pirate media on various devices.
The characters appeared in various campaigns since at least 2020.
The anti-piracy campaign is organized by Japan's Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) and is part of a larger Toei Animation, and more.
Netflix), and approximately 450 of the Copyright Society of China. Companies and copyright protection groups from South Korea and Vietnam are also expected to participate in the coalition.
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 ($5.19 billion) yearly. The reported that, according to the Authorized Books of Japan (ABJ), a Tokyo-based association working to crack down on pirated manga, the 10 most popular manga piracy websites received approximately 240 million monthly hits from April 17, 2018 to June 2021, after Japanese-language manga piracy site Mangamura became inaccessible. According to ABJ, the top three websites saw a 14-fold increase in views from January 2020 to April 2021.
The Fukuoka District Court handed down a guilty verdict on June 30, 2021 to Romi Hoshino, a.k.a. Zakay Romi, the alleged of Mangamura, on charges of copyright infringement and hiding criminal proceeds. 29-year-old Hoshino was sentenced to three years in prison, a fine of 10 million yen ($91,100), and an additional fine of 62 million yen ($565,000). The latter is based on the 62 million yen in revenue that Hoshino earned from the site and deposited to a foreign bank .
In December, two ment agencies, MM Lab and Global Net, were UQ Holder!) filed the lawsuit against both agencies, claiming that his manga had been illegally posted on Mangamura.
Japanese publishers Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Kadokawa filed a lawsuit against the American Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare in the Tokyo District Court in February. The lawsuit alleges that Cloudflare distributes data for manga piracy sites that infringes on the publishers' copyrights, and the companies are seeking an injunction and about 400 million yen ($3.5 million) in compensation for damages.
Source: Comic Natalie
