More Anime Sharing Arrests
If you remember my previously posted article about Japense men getting trouble for illegal sharing of anime take a look at this.
Japan’s Association of Copyright for Computer Software (ACCS) announced that a 37-year-old male company employee from Kakogawa City in central Japan was arrested on Thursday for selling unauthorized DVD copies of 10 anime works, television programs, and other titles. The man allegedly sold DVD-R copies of the 50,000-yen (about US$470) Dragon Ball’s Dragon Box the Movies DVD set for 4,000 yen (US$37), the 50,000-yen (US$470) Dragon Ball GT series set for 5,500 yen (US$51), and the 72,000-yen (US$675) Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ box set for 4,000 yen (US$37). Police from the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido and Sapporo City’s northern police office arrested the man on charges of copyright infringement and sent him to the prosecutors in Sapporo City.
The authorities say that the man sold about 1 million yen (US$9,000) in DVD copies on the Wanted Auction website in the 20 months between August of 2006 and April of 2008. Each of the auction listings went from 3,000 to 15,000 yen (US$28-140). In April, Hokkaido police investigators found out about the suspect’s auctions and contacted the copyright holders — Sunrise, Toei, and Toei Animation — via ACCS. The police confiscated one personal computer, DVD-Rs, envelopes, and shipping supplies from the suspect’s home on the day of the arrest.
The suspect reportedly said that he offered pirated items on the Yahoo! Auction and Rakuten websites in the past, but his listings were cancelled and his IDs were deleted on those sites. Since he tried to re-register but was unable to do so on those sites, he went to the Wanted Auction site where even pirated items were often not removed. As of the end of July, 231,411 members had posted 259,886 items on the Wanted Auction site.
Seems like more and more people are getting caught with this sort of thing. I have really no comments to make on the article. I just thought I would share this with you all.
Article was found from ANN.
This ones a little different though, the other guys made no profit off of it unlike this guy.
I still feel sorry for those other guys getting over a year in Jail for something as stupid as file sharing on the net.
that’s good that they are making arrest for uploading anime. all they have to do is arrest the people how download anime illegally.
Ugghh.. It’s a hard crime… Selling them , and get them in the auction… What this person is thinking about… Just money perhaps…..