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   Narbray (narbray@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 20:13:27 JST Narbray
   bro this shit is unfair it has to stop
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 20:13:26 JST 翠星石

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     @Narbray What on earth happened in that court?
     
     I'm not sure exactly as to what the court ruling was, as the translation is clearly terribly done, but 2 years and 1,000,000￥ for petty, seemingly noncommercial copyright infringement is ridiculous.
     
     Considering that Japan doesn't have fair use, they could get him on sharing videos of the game's art, but the charges were seemingly based off him spoiling the story???
     
     
     Such claims about "reducing the willingness to buy the game" have no basis in reality, as if I remember correctly, there was a study that determined that "spoilers" actually enhance how much a work is "enjoyed" in most people, rather than the other way round.
     
     
     What's next, these prosecutors suing people who decide not to rent their proprietary game because of the loss of the imaginary profits?
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     Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 20:20:26 JST Meemoo

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     @Narbray I will never live in Japan
     
     The place is a fucking shithole because of their bullshit copyright laws
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 20:20:26 JST 翠星石

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     @Meemoo >The place is a fucking shithole because of their bullshit copyright laws
     It seems that Japan is just a testing ground and it's desired that such repressive laws will come in force into your country eventually.
     
     As far as I can tell, the main thing that slows down the degeneration of copyright law in the USA (which gets exported to most other countries) is the GPL family of licenses - Disney, the RIAA etc going too far would result in blowback against their proprietary software business partners, as more proprietary software would then have to be released as free software, considering how almost all nontrivial software relies on GNU software, which is typically licensed under the GPLv2 or the GPLv3.