Anime music piracy website (Hikari No Akari) closes after industry goes to court
Anime music piracy website (Hikari No Akari) closes after industry goes to court
'Hikari No Akari' drew millions of visits from Indonesia, U.S. and France
Damage from digital piracy of Japanese music reached 22.4 billion to 92.2 billion yen ($142 million to $586 million at current rates) in 2022
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My streaming platform still doesn't have a lot of older Japanese music. And they literally acquired a Japanese music publisher. (I use qobuz). If you're concerned about losing money make your content more accessible instead of chasing those who've doing what you should be.
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This is a common false equivalence. Piracy doesn't lose you money. There's no guarantee the people who pirate would pay for content if piracy wasn't an option.
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They were hosting in California? They're cooked. 100%.
As a Californian, California is the last place anyone should want to host these kind of services or even live in.
No chance, Germany is probably a lot worse.
I highly doubt Germany could possibly be any worse than California in literally any category. Except maybe in how each is important to history.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Members of the Recording Industry Association of Japan had taken legal action in the U.S. to demand information on Hikari No Akari's operator from California-based Cloudflare, whose content delivery network the site had used.
"We'll use information that Cloudflare will disclose to hold the website operator responsible and take other legal action," an RIAJ spokesperson said.
The website received roughly 15 million visits over the past year, 75% of which were from countries outside Japan, such as Indonesia, the U.S. and France.
"Unlike videos or published materials, pirated works of music don't need to be translated for anyone to enjoy," says Hiroyuki Nakajima, an attorney versed in content piracy.
The RIAJ took a similar step in 2023, forcing the closure of another piracy website that August via legal action in the U.S.
This site, which had linked to illegal downloads of J-pop for more than two years, had not shut down as the trade group had demanded.
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I remember nippossei was a thing back when warez of Japanese anisongs were popular.