Japanese Government Aims to Impose Penalties for
Downloading Illegal Books:
"Japan's Agency of Cultural Affairs revealed on Friday that it plans to instate a penalty
for anyone who pays to download manga, magazines, novels, essays, and photographs
from the internet with the knowledge that they have been uploaded illegally. Under the
proposed revisions, the penalty can be up to two years prison time or up to a 2 million
yen (about US$17,740) fine. The agency intends to submit revisions to the Copyright
Act in the next ordinary session of the Diet in 2019.
Current laws only punish the consumer of pirated media in cases where the media in
question is music or video. The proposal will expand the law to include books."
See:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...-books/.140536
Interesting that their anti-piracy campaign features a pirate in its artwork:
