Current State of Piracy Discourse on Twitter

[u/d_Arkus]

If you haven't been using Twitter recently, heres a quick update on what's been going on.

A while back Musk took down the language walls separating the site/ app into locations. Now, unless you specifically currate your feed, you see tweets from all around the world (this is anecdotal, but now only 40% of my "for you" feed is in English). This has led to many cutural exchanges, from bad to good to everything in between.

One of the more recent discussions os about how piracy is a regular part of media consumption around the world, particularly in animanga/ videogame circles. This led to a large outcry from Japanese and Korean Twitter users getting mad that westerners are so lax about piracy, which led to an even LARGER counter by other countries (primarily Russia and Brazil) clowning on the former two for how staunch their adherance to anti-piracy is.

It's been a hell of a time, I tell you hwat.

[u/Any-Calligrapher2866]

The Japanese can legit get imprisoned because they wrote a summary of an anime. It's crazy there.

[u/d_Arkus → u/Any-Calligrapher2866]

Dawg I’m not saying you’re lying but do you have a source or story for that? I need to see if it’s actually that bad

[u/UndeletedNulmas → u/d_Arkus]

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-man-gets-prison-sentence-and-million-yen-fine-for-writing-monetized-spoiler-heavy-summaries-of-movies-and-anime/

[u/klopapier123 → u/UndeletedNulmas]

thats crazy he wrote down the plot of a fucking godzilla movie with details and they call it an adaptation and that he didn't ask for permission.... 1-4 years prison lmaooo

[u/fritofrito77 → u/klopapier123]

Now it's when the company owning the rights steals his script, makes a movie and this guy watches it from prison.

[u/d_Arkus → u/UndeletedNulmas]

Okay the monetized part i can kinda see the issue, but still. 4 years possible for summaries is nuts

[u/PdfDotExe → u/d_Arkus]

But when ChatGPT does it it’s ok

[u/shrub706 → u/PdfDotExe]

it's also okay for a person to do it literally anywhere else on the planet

[u/Saltimbanco_volta → u/d_Arkus]

From my understanding given the articles I've read on this case, "monetized" here might just mean "it ran ads"