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The system will train AI to recognize piracy websites by analyzing their layouts, advertisements, and content patterns. It will also utilize image recognition to detect unauthorized use of manga and anime materials provided by publishers.

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[–] rowrowrowyourboat 78 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Piracy is the best thing that happened to anime. Without it, anime and Japan wouldn't be nearly as popular.

They're shooting themselves on the foot. People discover anime and manga through piracy, and then if they love it, they end up spending money on it.

Just look at Berserk. I bet 90% of people who spent money on the mangas and all the deluxe editions discovered it through "illegal" means.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

In South and Central America Goku is probably the second most recognizable male icon next to Jesus. Piracy includes bootleggers so you have to wonder if any of that is possible without piracy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In South and Central America Goku is probably the second most recognizable male icon next to Jesus.

Are you sure about that? 1000042968

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who's that dude on the left? Okay so maybe third XD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

idk who it is either, I'm guessing he plays sports because of the logos

[–] Baylahoo 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you are being serious, his name is Lionel Messi, an Argentinian native, and he is one of the most popular athletes world wide. He plays soccer but is towards the end of his career at this point as he plays in the United States professional soccer league, MLS, which is pretty much retirement for a player of his caliber. The jersey he is wearing is from FC Barcelona, in the Spanish professional soccer league, which is where he spent the majority of his career and gained his popularity. If you were joking then you got me haha.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nope genuinely never heard of him, thanks for the info

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

massive financial losses due to piracy,

No. That's not "losses". It's just potentially lost sales. In reality though we call that, "wishful thinking". So to Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs I say:

Laughing fairy holding her hands in the air under the text, "Keep Wishing!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I rather pay 10 dollars for Miru on the playstore to torrent anime effectively than to subscribe to netflix or whatever else gives people anime because they never have what I would want

Even though I don't watch anime anymore, manwha + music separates my work life and entertainment from my pc so I can't just work more effectively

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

Or in another words: how did some lame tech company sell a web crawler for a duck ton of money to a bunch of senile government employees because it had an AI sticker.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

"It will also utilize image recognition to detect unauthorized use of manga and anime materials provided by publishers" If this somehow backfires and sites like CBR or TheGame fall victim to this, it will be very funny! but I hope this AI fails miserably!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Funny how they don't even bother attacking torrent beyond harassing ISPs lol

Centralized corporate trash can get fucked

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thats a way to kill a bit market to japan.

Anime become something thanks to piratery, if not it will be only a jp thing. If pirate anime sites stop existing. Japan will never sell a anime figure again overseas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunetly it might survive due to anime going mainstream. Alghtough only anime. Manga and light novels are going to burn.

[–] Piemanding 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Where do you get your light novels? Usually when I search for them they don't exist.

[–] Asparagus0098 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I get them from the Officially Translated Light Novels torrent from nyaa.si. If you don't want to use the torrent then you can use the mega link in the torrent description to DDL novels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Just search using Yandex. Google and unfortunately DGG are anti-piracy nowdays so they are already horrible to search for this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

So how does one acquire the training data that this will use. It sounds like they are gonna gather "all" of the original copies from various publishers in order to train the AI. Would be a real shame if someone were to discover where that was being stored.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

No but the piracy website just gonna include a robots.txt and now you're back to square dumb, Japan

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Nyaa will prevail

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

what will actually happen :