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He did monetize videos of visual novels, completely spoiling and showing all the content for free. Kinda pointless to buy it after watching. He also knew it was illegal and the risks he was taking. Unless I’m missing something?

Not sure jail is warranted but I’d be upset if my work was distributed for profit.

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Generally speaking, this is a civil matter and not a criminal matter. He was jailed, and arrested because this has recently become a criminal offense.

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.

He undid all the hard work that the visual novel creators put in and undermined the creative industry.

And that warrants 2 years in jail?

I'm not an author or artist or creator of any kind, but if some guy made a bunch of "plot summary" videos of my work, I'd want him hunted down and sentenced to hard labor.

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