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14 Year Old Japanese Boy Arrested For Uploading Manga Badly

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14 Year Old Japanese Boy Arrested For Uploading Manga BadlyMost pirates know how to get away with it these days.

Get copies of the work as soon as possible, possibly before it goes on sale officially.

Scan the thing in using an automated process.

Make it available through a direct download service, that link to be replicated, posted elsewhere and then collated in a torrent file.

But most importantly, you don't let the information out until there's some deniability – a situation where anyone anywhere could have been the one to scan it in and posted it.

Not filming advance copies of a comic with your camera and posting it on YouTube.

But that's what one 14-year-old boy was arrested for today, the first such police action against an individual for this crime.

The student from Nagoya regularly posting advance content from four popular comics, One Piece, Naruto, Gintama and Major before their publication, promoting the YouTube videos on Twitter.

How he got the content in question is now the subject of another investigation.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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