Zakay Romi, the alleged administrator of Japanese-language manga piracy site Mangamura, on charges of copyright infringement and hiding criminal proceeds.
The Fukuoka District Court handed down a guilty verdict on Wednesday to Romi Hoshino, a.k.a.
The latter is based on the 62 million yen in revenue that Hoshino earned from the site and deposited to a foreign bank account.
According to Japan’s Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), between September 2017 and February 2018, users accessed Mangamura about 620 million times.