Mike

The algorithm hates me 😭

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@jojogiogio1234 https://t.co/2aFJFjBkbu

[edan @Auinout]

@ryorekuiemu enjoy! all free and legal:

for recordings: https://t.co/x0lVIZst9g
for scores: https://t.co/wRqqYmzS2Z
for literature: https://t.co/3yVaVAD5bL
for art: https://t.co/MRifoVhIim
for movies: https://t.co/zDtT29E86x

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@jojogiogio1234 Please do it, do you need us to give you the links??

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@Naniwoyaterunda @KietaJibun There are data that shows a different side of Japan

https://t.co/5L1yDTPyOA

[WpWpN @NastyShlob]

@IhAbbJ2qkpQh60B Won't help with the piracy, unfortunately.
To reduce the level of theft dramatically, japanese creators have to move somewhere far away from japan and ip block the islands.

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@satoppe_san @KietaJibun I don't understand why they love the corporation so much? Did the corporation threaten their family or something? I understand if they want to defend an individual who created stuff, but defending the a corpo? Sheesh

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@lastphlebiacJP @FerryYohanes @KietaJibun Probably the fighting game community. In the west, fgc are mostly hated cause of their behavior too.

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@FerryYohanes @KietaJibun Exactly. People really despise morality police and higher than thou attitude, which these anti-piracy Japanese has shown throughout this drama. It's no surprise the backlash is huge.

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@personapurchase @ALegendaryDrops Damn, for real??

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@___4v @Zehimonasy @onepercentdsgn 2. That's what I do too for buying Japanese games

3. People mostly pirated games cause there are no legal way to acquire it. If there's a legal way (such as steam) most people will purchase through it. That's why the game industry still have the biggest revenue from global.

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@___4v @Zehimonasy @onepercentdsgn 1. Yes, correct. But what kickstarted the drama is game modding, not game sharing. The modders didn't even share the game, they just make the infrastructure for the legal game (Tekken 6) to be played online with better performance. People still have to own the game to play it

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@___4v @Zehimonasy @onepercentdsgn The thing that kickstart this whole drama by dogura is about games, so I'll just stick to game industry discussion. There will be no end of the discussion if we include all the other products

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@AaronMorel8 @fujikurauruka Live testing is needed for the proof of concept

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@fujikurauruka Peeruka 😂😂😂

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@Spectre_Gray Facts doesn't care about your feelings, bro

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@gameralphabeta @Steam I agree, steam should put the AI trash games into a bin somewhere that can be blacklisted with filter by everyone

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

The summary of the piracy debate in X. I still believe that there are more based Japanese people than these loud crybabies online. I've seen some Japanese that are trying to understand about the background rather than just crying "thief! thief!" all the time. My respect to them.

[Mike @Kurmikeds]

@ExamplePrime @binbi59 The loudest people are usually the ones who have the most skeletons to hide. I'm sure many of the "anti-piracy" Japanese on Twitter are secretly using pirated materials themselves with how huge their usage of pirate websites is. They are just huge hypocrites.

[ExamplePrime @ExamplePrime]

One thing I found interesting about this back and forth debate was, from the comments, I would be fooled into believing that piracy is an almost non-existent issue in Japan only for someone to post a statistics chart showing how common piracy is in Japan.

This leads to me to believe that a lot of this debate is simply people on Twitter saying what they feel is the correct thing to say in public before going home to act in a different way where they think nobody can see them.

We are being honest when we say that piracy is stealing. We know it's stealing. I don't even see many westerners on here claim to not have pirated anything. The primary argument is that we feel forced to pirate because obtaining the digital products otherwise is virtually impossible, or if such great effort that it's not worth obtaining it normally so we resort to piracy.
And the reason we talk about this from Japan specifically is because Japan, SPECIFICALLY, is so difficult to obtain products from.

If there was a popular TV show in Brazil that had no easy legal method of obtainment and this master was brought up to someone relevant in Brazil, there's a high chance that by the end of the week there would be a free copy uploaded to the internet with a promise that in the next couple of months the product would be available on some other site where it could be purchased such as a relevant media site like Steam.

Using Rance as an infamous example.
Rance X not only still does not have a western release in any way, it does not have an English translation available outside of fan edits and AI work. The seventh game in the series only recently became available on Steam with a promise for the other ones to be available at some point in the future.

Through persistent effort from fans and effective begging, Rance X will be available on Steam about 12 years after its release in Japan.
A lot of fans have already pirated and completed the game but will likely purchase it again when it finally releases on Steam because that's all they really wanted. A place to buy it.

[huna @hunahunahunahun]

@N4pstr 普通の日本人は海賊版やそれに似たサービスを愛用しているよ。

マジコン、漫画村、漫画喫茶、ブックオフ。マジコンと漫画村は企業が必死になって潰した。

日本人はテレビが好きだから、コンテンツはタダであるべきだと思う人が多い

Xで騒いでる人間？少数派の中のさらに少数派だ

[D O G G O B O N G O @_dingobingo]

Pirating, America
#Capippalist

[Geek Jack Music @geekjackmusic]

There’s a huge debate about pirated copies going on right now, but Geek Jack Music is out here doing everything we can with one simple goal: to bring Japanese culture to fans on the other side of the world. 🌍

Looks like we’re still not well-known enough, so please notice us, spread the word, and make use of Geek Jack Music!! 😭

Honestly, I think the real issue is that the right system simply hasn’t been built yet. So instead of telling overseas fans to just “give up,” we’re working hard to build that system ourselves and make Japanese music more accessible worldwide.

The person running this account is Japanese, and we would NEVER tell overseas fans to just “give up”!

We want Japanese music to reach you, no matter where in the world you are. 🌍🎶