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Japan enacts copyright control law to ban pirated manga downloads

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All the ideas I have heard from Japanese politicians over the has been so obviously and horrifically bad that I am extremely skeptical about even the good sounding ideas in this article. I have to wonder how the actual legislation ruined even those good ideas.

But generally its just better if the government keeps its mitts off the internet. I don't actually believe those companies are hurting due to piracy and I don't think they will make more profit for all these attempts to curb piracy either. So all we get are fewer freedoms for more laws.

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They care about protecting manga, but anything else, feel free to rip off.

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The leech sites will just move to foreign servers. Are the politicians so naive?

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Please explain them what VPN is.

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One day Middle-men will be cut out, and we will be able to buy direct, rather than having to go through various distribution networks...

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This makes me cry :'(

If they made some service as Netflix for manga I would be happy to buy a subscription. I want to support them but it is pain in the ass to find some stuff officially with the newest update.

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Manga publishers should release manga in both Japanese and English at the same time. They already do this sort of thing using official sites like Crunchyroll for anime, so why not manga too.

If it is affordable, easy to access and all in one place then many people would switch to paying for it.

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