@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?