xiggymatsu:

capturing-goddess:

ANIME/MANGA PURGE

I got this from a friend who was reading majority of the Elsword forums.

BEWARE ANIME AND MANGA FANS. JAPAN IS PLANNING TO SHUT DOWN MAJOR ANIME/MANGA WEBSITES THAT YOU EITHER WATCH OR DOWNLOAD~!

Japanese Government Enforcing Anti-Piracy Law on Anime and Manga
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A couple things:

”The jail sentence can be as long as two years for downloading copyright infringing material and as long as 10 years for uploading it.”

Please keep this in mind, what so many of us do is in fact illegal and they have every right to do this.

However,
“A new site will direct fans to legal copies of affected works, which are available for a few hundred yen (equal to a few US dollars)”

If this becomes a thing, hopefully it won’t be so bad.

Well piracy is more or less a necessity for many due to lack of official alternatives. Like in say Europe, where we lack everything and anything to watch an anime legally without waiting 12 years for the DVD boxset which then costs like 3100 Euros.

I’m hoping that by trying to limit piracy they’ll finally see some sense and realize that hey, maybe they should make it possible at all for foreign fans of anime to watch their shit legally! (Like FUNimation/Hulu(?) does in the US)