The 25-year-old Makoto Fujino, who was previously arrested for the suspicion of scanning and uploading scans of Eiichiro Oda's pirate adventure manga One Piece, had pleaded guilty to the charges against him by copyright holders and Shueisha.
According to the authorities, book-digitizing businessman scanned and uploaded the first 10 volumes of One Piece on December 14th, 2012, and the first 10 volumes of Berserk and February 20th, 2013, and offer these as a limited service for people who joined his website, which had been closed since then.
Included in his violation are volumes 1 through 45 of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga and burning them on a DVD-R, which was sold for 10,000 yen.
via Anime News Network
Another guy arrested for doing this.
ReplyDeleteWhy arrest the guy? Haven't they made enough money off of the first ten already?
ReplyDeletewait of course not ,they're a corporation! Fuckin' A.
If the strawhats were real ,i bet they'd be pretty pissed
Well, the publishers and the mangaka has every right to take this to court and have someone arrested because it was published and sold without their consent.
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ReplyDeleteJuly 7, 2013 at 8:33 AM
Well, the publishers and the mangaka has every right to take this to court and have someone arrested because it was published and sold without their consent. "
AHH but that's just it it was likly neither Published OR sold but put on an upload site