CATDOLL: Three Chinese citizens were arrested by Japanese police for illegally uploading the source of "One Piece"

In China, the speed of publishing Chinese comics is very fast. They can usually publish pictures a few days earlier than the magazines in Japan. The reason is that there are many "picture sources" in Japan who provide pictures for comics circulating on the Internet. Recently, the Japanese police announced that they have arrested three Chinese and one Japanese for copyright infringement. They are suspected of illegally providing unsold comics to overseas websites.

The three Chinese arrested this time and a Japanese who was responsible for supplying books from the printing factory to the bookstore provided the latest episode of the serialized work "One Piece" in "Weekly Shonen Jump" which was expected to be released in four days to an overseas website on October 29, and the website immediately translated it into English and circulated it. For this reason, the police believe that this behavior violated the copyright of the work.

It is understood that this English website contains more than 4,000 works and can be said to be the largest pirated comics website at present. As Japanese comics are very popular in the world, the problem of piracy has always troubled the copyright holders. However, this case of being arrested for providing image sources to overseas websites is rare before. Many netizens believe that the Japanese government will increase its efforts to crack down on piracy in the future, and it will become increasingly difficult to see pirated anime works quickly and for free.