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Two alien nationals suspected of breaking right of first publication jurisprudence were arrested in Japan on February 4th for lawlessly acquiring and distribute images of manga published onWeekly Shonen Jumpdays before their official expiration . The effect is causing undulation in the creation of manga , as several websites that provided illegal CAT scan of chapters before their tone ending are shutting down , along with many " leaker " social medium accounts .
The Kumamoto Prefectural Police arrested two individual on February 4th , charging them with copyright crimes . One of the two , Musa Samir , 36 , run a company call " Japan Deal World LLC " in Kita - ku , Tokyo . concord to the investigation and a statement issue by Shueisha , the publish company that ownsWeekly Shonen Jump , the images are acquired by bribing bookstore employees . Stores pick up the powder store many days before their actual release , and the practice of illegally acquiring nip of the most popular series has brandish in recent years .
While the two defendant have denied the billing pertain to print the images , the practice is sadly well - known by Shueisha and the Nipponese self-assurance , who have recently multiplied their effort to combat plagiarisation . As a resultant role of the arrest , almost all the major leakers and scanlation groups have closed down their activities .
Piracy Arrests Will Change The Way Fans Consume Manga
Major leakers and scan groups have shut down
The events in Japan have been reported online by prolific manga - related news accounts such as Manga Mogura and sandman . The most immediate consequence is that democratic leaker - i.e. invoice that contribution images or summary of chapter days before they are published - have been directly named in the investigation , includingJujutsu Kaisenleaker @JJK_Mya ( whose invoice is no longer active ) , as confirm by an article publish by Japanese newspaper Asahi . Also , many groups that scan , clean-living , and understand the " bleak " images illegally obtained before publishing them online have shut down operations , including " OP Scans " and " Scanpiea " .
The consequence , however , will go further than that . It has become vulgar exercise among fans to take chapter of popular series lawlessly , even if they then read or buy the prescribed versions . Moreover , even fans who strain to avoid coddler can sometimes suffer from them , as Shueisha pointed out in its financial statement ( translation by @sandmanAP ):
the nature of societal networking web site is such that posts based on users ' interests are displayed as " recommendations , " etc . In some case , users are unintentionally forced to interpret the spoilers . This mean that there are cases in which users are unintentionally squeeze to read the next chapter of a manga .
The publishing firm went on to posit that in one character it receive more than 1,000 complaints from readers in nearly a week , include threats to cancel their subscriptions .
The intact way that fans perceive and consume manga will likely changeas a resolution of the Japanese authorities ' crackdown on piracy . Popular " content creator " consistently trust on spoilers and illegal scans for their content . For example , Grand Line Review , famous for being the firstOne Piececontent creator to get to one million subscription on YouTube , covers new chapters of the serial days before their official release and has often been criticise for using spoilers in its thumbnails . As many of these account compile millions of view and impressions , it will be interesting to see how they will respond to the - arrogate - want of spoilers and former scans from now on .
The Fight Against Manga Piracy Has Taken A Massive Step Forward
Shueisha and other manga publishing company have been trying to agitate piracyfor yr . As Shueisha pointed out , it ’s severe to crack down on leakers , because these accounts delete the images not long after they are posted , and before their account can be suspended . Still , along with the recent shutdown of the massive manga and manhwa pirate website " M " , the intelligence of these arrests in Japan hopefully signals a turning point and the origin of the closing for a practice that , quote Shueisha again , " could shake the very construction of the industry itself " .
As an interesting side bank bill , the arrests happened in Kumamoto Prefecture , the birthplace of Eiichiro Oda , whose mangaOne Pieceis belike the most subject to this illegal and unscrupulous practice session , which is somehow ironic for a manga about pirates .
source : Shueisha ’s official statement;asahi.com;@MangaMoguraRe;@sandmanAP
