In some ways, the anime industry in Japan might seem like it’s pretty laid back in enforcing its copyrights.
On September 5, Korean national Jun-hyun Li, an employed resident of Mie’s Yokkaichi City, used BitTorrent to upload a pirated anime episode to the Internet, allowing anyone to download it.
So what anime did he upload the episode from, kicking off the investigation that led to his arrest?
But things are completely different when it comes to copyright violations of the anime itself, and the latest example came this week in Mie Prefecture.