Streamer in Japan Gets 2yrs Jail Time for Uploading Let’s Plays, Anime Spoilers
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016653 - "Japanese police make first YouTuber arrest for uploading video game gameplay"
Legally, the police can shoot you in your sleep in the US. Do we unironically dismiss criticism of this as not understanding American culture?
Can you be specific which law allows that? Shooting circumstances obviously varies, but which law says you can be shot in your sleep if X, Y, Z happen?
The point being trying to dismiss blatant corruption from big corporation influence as "the Japanese way" is ridiculous
The Japanese are really regimental, focused on obedience to higher-ups and employers, family honor, have a strict framework of written and unwritten rules... That couldn't be more different from the US (and most other western countries in fact).
Personally I really frown on such concepts as I embrace individuality but good to them, I just wouldn't want to live there :P
I mean that's a nice reductive take of what I said
> The Japanese are really regimental, focused on obedience to higher-ups and employers, family honor, have a strict framework of written and unwritten rules... That couldn't be more different from the US (and most other western countries in fact).
What? This is about as true as saying America is sexually repressed or Sweden is a utopian paradise. It's a broad brush that speaks more to what is "taboo" in public relations, but there's a lot of Japanese people who would laugh at the idea that they fit into this box. Individuality is doing fine in Japan.
I don't see how "North Korea" is the only country that is an outlier to you here more extreme than Japan. Obviously India and most middle eastern countries are lightyears more family oriented and strict about obedience than Japan. Most East-Asian countries too.
Spoilers.
That's what's crazy about this.
Not sure jail is warranted but I’d be upset if my work was distributed for profit.
In most other countries, if they can show that they suffered monetary losses or damages, you could be liable for that - yes.
The slippery slope here is that if US or EU gets wind of this and become "inspired" by this... we could see this becoming a thing in the Western world.
Different cultures can do things differently, but some things are still universally acceptable and others universally unacceptable. We do not look at Russia "disappearing" controversial political figures and say "well, that's just Russian culture."
I agree that the word "society" can be used to convey social norms, whether imposed by the general public or a powerful minority, but here it's use is deceptive, because there is a connotation that society at large accepts this application of law as just, and had the practical power to influence copyright law.