Japan bans pirated manga downloads with copyright control law

The Japan Times,
05 June 2020, Japan

The Diet on Friday enacted a revised anti-online piracy law to tighten copyright control, banning illicit downloading of manga, magazines and academic texts, in addition to music and videos that were already covered by the existing legislation.

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