During the first half of 2017, an average of 15.2 million unique users from Japan per month accessed sites or apps used for online piracy via desktops, the audience of the MPA seminar heard during a look at the country’s piracy landscape.
“The challenge of online piracy, which is rampant everywhere, including Japan, is a serious problem for all of us,” MPAA chairman Chris Dodd said in his opening remarks at the 7th MPA seminar at the festival.
However, in his opening speech, Dodd didn’t mince any words as he immediately pointed out one of the Japanese entertainment industry’s biggest problems, and that is online piracy.
All that means that “piracy in Japan is getting worse,” a slide prepared for the seminar concluded.