Response to "pirated sites" Requests Publishers' groups and bipartisan parliamentary groups, etc. October 22, 14:44
While Japanese works are attracting attention, such as the manga "Kimetsu no Yaiba" becoming a record hit, publishers say that the damage caused by pirated copies of Japanese manga posted on overseas Internet sites without permission is increasing rapidly. And bipartisan parliamentary federations have submitted recommendations to the government for action.
The proposal states that copyright damage caused by pirated sites that use overseas servers to post popular manga for Japanese people without permission is increasing rapidly, and will work on countries such as Vietnam where servers are installed. I am asking.
Among the pirated sites, the top 10 most frequently accessed sites from Japan were accessed in August and last month, and the total number of accesses reached around 150 million each, causing the worst copyright damage in history. It is more than the time of the pirated site "Manga Village".
According to major publishers, there are about 700 pirated sites currently confirmed and tens of thousands of requests for deletion per month, but overseas sites do not respond to the request or are said to have been deleted. However, it is difficult to take measures because the URL is often changed and reopened.
According to a group of publishers, when it was "Manga Village", it was said that about 300 billion yen worth of publications were read for free in the six months until February, and the pirated site could not get the original profit. It is complaining that it is a matter of life and death for publishers and writers.
After submitting the proposal, Keiji Furuya, chairman of the bipartisan parliamentary group, said, "Piracy sites are not a problem that can be dealt with only domestically, and I would like the government to use diplomatic channels."
Publishers' groups are urging consumers not to browse pirated sites in order to return profits to creators and continue to create new works.