From a 2025 report on piracy of Japanese media:

Assuming one comic book priced at 500 yen could be read in 30 minutes, ABJ estimated the damage for June alone was 704.8 billion yen, equivalent to 1.4 billion manga books that were not paid for.

This amounts to 8.5 trillion yen a year, nearly six times the 1.5 trillion-yen size of Japan’s publishing market in 2024.

By country, Indonesian viewers caused the most damage in June, at 92.3 billion yen, followed by Japanese at 83.4 billion yen, and those in the United States at 79.1 billion yen.

Only country ahead of Japan is an archipelago 2.5x bigger than it, and Japan is ahead of the US

Seriously lmao. I keep encountering people at the game shop I visit who don’t know you can just pirate Warhammer books. They’re often wandering around asking if anyone has a e-book code for them to use. I’m like: “Just go get it from one of the thousands of .pdf dump sites? Fucking dork lololololollll!”

You see the climate of The Japans produces an occidental ownership center in the lower corticoloid brainpan which makes them biologically opposed to piracy. What’s this word, ‘wokou’? Get out of here with your foreign talk

Ah yeah, twitter almost always exaggerates anyway and has the worst of the worst. Guess people that have that attitude are more likely to speak out than someone who is ambivalent to it, or supports it for their own reasons.