Oddbean

the Digital Asahi Shimbun informs that the court of the sendai district has condemned the creator of content Shinobu Yoshida (吉田忍) for violating the law of intellectual property by publishing unauthorized videos of videogames and anime edited, and has imposed a two-year sentence of imprisonment with a suspended sentence of five years (it will not serve the next two years of imprisonment if it does not commit any other million Imagine you getting 2 years in prison for uploading videos of visual novels :a_disgust: this has to stop https://www.inside-games.jp/article/2023/09/07/148373.html

@Narbray In the past, in some countries, the penalty for infringing copyright was death. If I remember correctly, there was a monopoly arrangement where only authorized parties could stitch certain marks into clothing and if a clothing maker was caught making certain stitch patterns unauthorizely, they were sentence to death. Of course, people still kept doing it, even with a sizable portion of the population executed. The only thing that's going to stop copyright laws from getting worse is to license under the AGPLv3+, GPLv3+ and/or the GFDL-1.3+ and not hesitate to enforce such copyrights against the government's friends if they dare infringe it - as governments can't risk admitting that only businesses are entitled to copyright restrictions.