piracy of comics

The piracy has been a big issue today.
There are more than 90 million internet users in Japan now, and there is an increase in piracy through the Internet. The phenomena of crime using the Internet are derived from its anonymity, widespread cyber crimes and those crimes tend to be committed by people at lower age. Most of those crimes are sales of illegal copy and upload without the permission. Now, uploading popular manga (comics) and anime (cartoons) on Youtube has become considerably harmful influence with Japanese youth. There is a significant increase in young people who involve with illegal upload those works.

14th of June this year in Japan, 14 years old boy has been arrested due to upload more than 30 titles and 120 works of popular manga such as Onepiece, Naruto and Gintama etc. This disclosure of piracy through Youtube is the first case in Japan. According to the report, those manga he uploaded have been played more than 8 million times and the amount of damage is worth 20 million yen (NZ$310000). Even the publishers offer a deletion of his upload, but he kept uploading those.

Manga or anime illegal uploading has rapidly increased since 2007. Japanese youth who upload works without permission do not realise that they break a law. Therefore, education that relates to copyright and piracy is required not only at school but also within a family and the society now.