Piracy Wars: Scanlating Licensed Series It has been a while since I did an episode of my Piracy Wars series. However, I felt prompted to do so after an editor of a small, licensor complained about scanlations, aggregator websites, and their communities. I’m not naming the editor as that’s not the point. I have friendly
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Piracy Wars: Toei Goes After Popular YouTube Anime Reviewer
December 14th, 2021 
AstroNerdBoy Piracy Wars: Toei Goes After Popular YouTube Anime Reviewer! Crappy copyright claims is a subject that has hit me on more than one occasion. Back in 2013, TV Tokyo hit me with a bogus copyright complaint that was later corrected. Again in 2013, Viz hit me with a copyright complaint, only this time, they were
Piracy Wars: A look at the recent Japanese manga pirate arrests
November 19th, 2015 AstroNerdBoy Piracy Wars: A look at the recent Japanese manga pirate arrests As most of you probably know by now, there have been some recent arrests in Japan over manga piracy. Some folks have asked for my thoughts on what has happened, so I’m going to oblige. For those who don’t know what has happened, I
Piracy Wars: AstroNerdBoy, Viz Media, TV Tokyo, and the DMCA
June 14th, 2013 AstroNerdBoy On December 27, 2006, I decided to delve into the world of blogging about anime, manga, and things Japanese. Prior to that, I wrote reviews (and still contribute on occasion) to Community Anime Reviews, starting in 2002. In all that time, my only real concerns about bothering publishers & distributors were my Negima! spoiler images
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Piracy Wars: Selling Used Anime or Manga May Soon Be a Thing of the Past
October 8th, 2012 AstroNerdBoy When it comes to copyrighted items, major copyright holders (publishing companies for the sake of this article but it goes to any copyright holder) have long wanted 100% control over the product, including what the consumer does with said product. Anything that deviates in the slightest from what the copyright holder wants is automatically deemed
Piracy Wars: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
June 24th, 2012 AstroNerdBoy Recently, ANN posted a small article about how illustrator, animator, and composer KANZAKI Hiro (aka: ODA Hiroyuki), who uploaded a couple of song videos to the Japanese site Niconico, which he (1) had permission to do and (2) actually drew the artwork used in said videos. However, because of the massive protectionist nature of copyright
Piracy Wars: The Origins of Fansubs
April 16th, 2012 AstroNerdBoy Piracy Wars: The Origins of Fansubs Because of the rapid advances in computer technologies, we are able to transfer vast amounts of data over the Internet in only a short period of time. We can convert movies and TV shows into video files that are compressed a great deal to save on space, yet
Piracy Wars: Causes for Manga Sales Fall
April 10th, 2012 AstroNerdBoy Piracy Wars: Causes for Manga Sales Fall I periodically see articles published about how manga sales are down, and being a fan of manga and anime, this kind of news is of interest to me. After all, I purchase a great deal of manga, both official English releases in the United States and some select
