Rights holders are fed up with Internet users illegally downloading their manga and animes. By April 2022, a new alliance of hundreds of companies will emerge with a clear goal: to prevent piracy of their content. His influence will spread all over the world to encourage the authorities to find the trace of the pirates.
Piracy has always been a big thorn in the side of rights holders. Many attempts have been made, most of them mixed results. Faced with the relative ineffectiveness of governments on this subject, companies have been trying for several years to take matters into their own hands. In 2019, in particular, the big names in streaming joined forces to define account sharing as similar to illegal downloading.
A similar alliance will soon see the light of day by April 2022. Named International Anti-Piracy Organization (IAPO), this organization will primarily aim to fight against pirating of manga and anime, which has significantly increased in popularity in recent years. It will be mainly made up of the Japanese group Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), representing 32 companies including Aniplex, Kadokawa or even Kodansha.
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“We plan to launch the new organization around April this year and share the information on hacking sites compiled in each country and provide it to the police in the country where the servers are located, for example.”, explains Masaharu Ina, director of CODA and Toho Films. The IAPO will also be joined by the Motion Picture Association (MPA), composed among others of Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros.
Finally, the China Copyright Association (CCA) and its 450 beneficiaries as well as several South Korean and Vietnamese groups will complete the list. In total, 13 countries will be involved in a device to help global authorities conduct their investigations against hackers. This is not the first time that such an alliance has seen the light of day. In 2017, more than 30 entertainment giants came together to create the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, an organization fighting against illegal downloading.
Source: Torrent Freak