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It appears spoilers are actually illegal in Japan. I'm not sure how I feel about this.
by HPsquared 2y ago
It appears spoilers are actually illegal in Japan. I'm not sure how I feel about this.
- robertlagrant 2y agoUgh. I wanted to find this out for myself!
- mccrory 2y agoWell done!
- rightbyte 2y agoDo you mean spoiler used as some sort of harassment? Or can't you discuss movies?
- chme 2y ago> “The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content, which can lead to people not seeing the official full-length movies, causing great damage to rights holders,” the anti-piracy group explains. So a bad critique of the movie, might also reduce people's desire to pay to see the movie. So with this kind of reasoning any information you give others about a movie (or other copyrightable work) could be problematic. Pretty strange stuff...
- rightbyte 2y agoYe I read that. It is just that it is so absurd that I hardly believe it. I did some searching and I got no result from news orgs I recognized. But like, it seemed correct. Then again, if I remember correctly Nintendo tried to go after videos of people playing their games at some point. I guess it makes sense from that perspective.
- sfmz 2y agoReminds me of NFL's copyrights claim: “Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent is prohibited.”