"Mangamura," the Worst Piracy Site in History, and How It Earns Revenues

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both of the left and right sides. Advertisements are shown as an access is

made.

▶ In other words, as the number of accesses increases, the revenue

(advertisement fee) earned by the operator increases proportionately in

this system.

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[Informative] A real example of the piracy sites ① (Mangamura)

Excerpts from Examination Meeting Relating to the System Design etc. Illegalization of

Downloading of infringing Contents (First Session)

(Nov. 27, 2019) Material 2-1 (materials submitted by Publication and Information Center)

MangamuraA viewer site viewable for free

Popular BoysBefore

Release/LatestTeens Girls

Comic Magazines

Women Photos BL's AdultsAdult

Magazines

Jump and Young Magazine released on Jan. 22 refreshed on Netabare Yokocho!

"Mangamura - Entrance Page -," the third installment of Mangamura Channel, was released.

Anime/Cartoon Antennae is made for killing time.

Others

Spirit, monthly

March 2018

Comic, monthly

ZERO-SUM

March 2018

Shonen Jump,

weekly

9th, 2018

Comp Ace

March 2018Jump GIGA

WINTER 2018

vol. 3

Shonen Sunday,

weekly

9th, 2018

Shonen Sirius

March 2018

Teacher Nietzsche - A

new face from the

enlightened generation

came down to the

convenience store - 8

Alice of the

Path of Dying 7

Alice of the

Path of Dying 6

Alice of the

Path of Dying 5

Japanese

Dance! (1) How

Dangerous the

Old Man 1

Dangerous Old

Man Vicious 20

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【Informative】 A real example of the piracy sites ② (Index Site: Downloading type (Manga))

HomeHome Manga Comic Magazines Magazines Novels Adults BL's Others Requested Uploader FAQ

[Kagami Takaya x Yamato Yamamoto] Seraph of the End, vols. 01 - 20

Manga in general

New arrivals recommendedYamato Yamamoto

Takaya KagamiVol. 20

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[Eiichiro Oda] ONE PIECE, vols. 01 - 95

[Riichiro Inagaki x Boichi] Dr. STONE, vols. 01 - 14

Manga in general

New arrivals recommended

Riichiro Inagaki

Vol. 14

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Manga in general

New arrivals recommendedEiichiro Oda

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Manga in general

New arrivals recommended

[Koyoharu Gotoge] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, vols. 01 - 19Koyoharu Gotoge

Vol. 19

Vol. 95

[Takahiro x Yohei Takeuchi] Slave of Devil City Spirit Soldier,

vols 01 - 02 + episodes 15 - 29C Manga in

generalTakahiro

Yohei TakeuchiEpisodes 15 - 29 (correction)

(Test)

Boys' Magazine, weekly, 10th, 2020

[Jin Aino] An Ordinary Mediocre Daddy-o in Daily Life is

Actually the Strongest Soldier Ever, vol. 01

[Kyosuke Kamijo] The Child of My Stepmother Turned Out to

Be My Ex-girlfriend, vols. 01 - 03

[Ei Sueba] Diamond User of Oz, vols. 01 - 02

[Hanabokuro] Remover, vols 01 - 03

[Sakura Kokonoe] Serious Situation of a Mean Daughter, vols. 01 - 03

[Tamao Mono] Mailbox on Olympus, vols. 01 - 02

[Okina Bana] Escape Sheep Land

[Nachi Yukinoshita] Home Appliance Boyfriend

[Mizuki Nomura] Crime and Punishment of Hirona Mukai

Who Came to Love a Girlfriend of the Best Friend

[Mamare Tono x Kazuhiro Hara] Log Horizon, vols. 01 - 11

[Kazuyoshi Ishii x Hanamura] Dorukara. vols. 01 - 05

[Neko Hinotsuki x Tsunehiko Watanabe] Ideal Gigolo Life, vols, 01 - 08

Boys' Sunday, weekly, 10th, 2020

Requested

[Yuuki IInuma x Hiroyuki Nishimori] Though There is Nothing, the

Sky is Blue, vols. 01 - 02

[Utsusemi x Midorigimura x Kei Komori] Walkure Romanze [Love Story of

Sweelia]

[Hikaru Yuzuki]

[Yoshinobu Akita] Separated Journey of Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, complete set of 20 vols.

[Boichi] Sun Ken Rock, complete set of 25 vols.

Trace Data, R18 guide & pose compilation, 1 - 2

Not only Manga but also the categories such as magazines, art/literature books, photo books

continue to be in the condition where a large number of infringing contents can be downloaded.

【Magazine】 【Art/Literature Book】 【Photo Book】

Examination Meeting Relating to the System Design etc. for Illegalization of Downloading of infringing Contents (First Session)(Nov. 27, 2019) Material 2-1 (materials submitted by Publication and Information Center)

【Informative】 A real example of the piracy sites ③ (Index Site: Downloading type (magazines, art/literature books, photo books, etc.))

Magazines

Fami Tsu, weekly, Nov. 28, 2019

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Economist, weekly, Nov. 26, 2019

ASCII, weekly, Nov. 19, 2019

Asahi, weekly, Nov. 29, 2019

[Haruki Murakami] A perfect Day for Kangaroos

with the cover and illustration corresponding to

Aozora Bunko

Proofread 18-12-18

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Erika Ikuta, 2nd photo book, International

Photo book, Kana Tokue, Looking Only at You,

Guild

Photo book, Mami Yajima, photo book, Wink,

zip

Fuko Yagura, first photo book, Love You

Sayumi Michishige, photo book, DREAM

Akari Suda, photo book, How to Get Pretty

Rena Kato, photo book, Somebody's Job

Yuria Kizaki, first photo book, Peace

Mariya Nagao, first photo book, Beautiful Cells

Yuki Kashiwagi, x2, photo book

Rino Sashihara, x3, photo book

Mayu Watanabe, x3, photo book

Mai Shiraishi, photo book, Passport

Kazumi Takayama, photo book, Maybe a

Crush

Rina Ikoma, first photo book, Traces of You

Nanami Hashimoto, first photo book, Tender

Prickle

Mai Fukagawa, first photo book, Wanna be

Close to You Forever

Asuka Kuramochi, first photo book, Earlobe

Yui Yokoyama, first photo book, Yui-han

Mai Shiraishi, first photo book, Pure Adult

Pirated Copy Sites for the Inside of Japan - the Monthly Top 10 Sites Most Frequently Accessed in Japan

Site Name URL

Monthly Access Count from Japan

(Accumulated Total of Accessing Users)Unit: 10 thousand

Downloading or

StreamingType

1 Pirated copy site A 13dl.net 1658 Downloading type Index site

2 Pirated copy site B nyaa.si 1553 Downloading type Torrent

3 Pirated copy site C manga-zip.net 1047 Downloading type Index site

4 Pirated copy site D lhscan.net 741 Streaming type On-line reading

5 Pirated copy site E mangahato.com 316 Streaming type On-line reading

6 Pirated copy site F hanascan.com 314 Streaming type On-line reading

7 Pirated copy site G manga314.com 304 Downloading type Index site

8 Pirated copy site H manga-zone.org 234 Downloading type Index site

9 Pirated copy site I rawmangazip.com 198 Downloading type Index site

10 Pirated copy site J dl-zip.com 186 Downloading type Index site

Closed in the middle of

SeptemberHoshino Romi hoshinoromi.org 3978 Streaming type On-line reading

Source: Research by Similarweb, November, 21, 2019

About the Real Examples of the Pirated Copy Sites of a Large-scale and Malicious Downloading Type

The monthly total of 65.51 million accesses on the top ten sites. More than 100 million monthly accesses in total including "Hoshino Romi," which is the scale equivalent to that of "Mangamura," the worst pirated copy site in the history Among them, 7 sites are a downloading type.

Not disclosed

A real example of the piracy sites of a downloading type

Examination Meeting Relating to the System Design etc. for Illegalization of Downloading of infringing Contents (First Session)(Nov. 27, 2019) Material 2-1 (materials submitted by Publication and Information Center)

About the Real Examples of the Damages from the Pirated Copies in the Fields Other than Publication

◆ The amount of the damages in Japan from the illegal use of business software: 110.6 billion yen *１

*1. The amount including pirated copies, illegal copies in companies, and reproductions using the Internet (the breakdowns are unknown).

◆ The number of successful bids involving a seller who instructed the bidder to download the business software illegally uploaded on Internet auction site A:

approx. 10.4 thousand cases *2

*2. Including the cases that were estimated to be the successful bids involving the same seller based on the style of the selling (the description on the merchandise etc.)

◆ A large number of the contents illegally uploaded on pirated copy sites, on Index sites, or with file sharing software etc. are posted besides business software

and game software.*3

*3. For instance, there is a large-scale pirated copy site that describes itself as having approx. 60 thousand files uploaded including videos and electronic books and also having 375 thousand subscribers.

* Besides the above mentioned, in addition to the photo books/magazine photos uploaded on index sites, a large number of photos, illustrations (paintings/drawings), lyrics from songs, etc. are uploaded on blog pages, SNS pages, etc. without permission.

In addition, there are cases in which a script (scenario) from movie shooting is illegally circulated and its photo is uploaded on an SNS page.

【Damages from Pirated Copies of Scientific Essays】 *Researched and estimated by right holders' associations

◆ The number of the unauthorized reproductions/deletions of the images from seven newspaper/telecommunication companies on site A is

: approx. 340 thousand cases *

* Excerpted from the materials dated April 26, 2018 provided by seven news organs for the press. The result of the examinations only on the images comparable with their originals. If the text in articles is included, the number of the real

cases of illegal uploading is expected to further increase.

◆ The number of the cases of unauthorized copies/reproductions of the articles found by newspaper publishing company B: approx. 230 thousand cases *

* The cases found by using an article comparing software program from September 2017 to August 2019

* The permission fees for an article posted on the Internet vary depending on newspaper publishing companies. In an example. the fee for one article exceeds 10 thousand yen.

【Damages from Pirated Copies of Newspaper Articles】 *Researched and estimated by right holders' associations

◆ The number of downloading cases in Japan on essay pirated copy site A: 1,272,346 cases *

*Excerpted from an essay by Shuhei Otani and Keitaro Bando published on "The Journal of Information Science and Technology," vol. 68, no.10, p.p. 513 - 519, 2018 (The number of downloading cases on the same site increased by more than five times from year 2015 to year 2017).Among them, 981,063 cases (77.17% of all cases) were so-called reader type references.

*If the permission fee (2,800 yen per essay) for the electronic copy defined by Japan Academic Association for Copyright Clearance is applied, the amount of the damages reaches 2.7 billion yen).

【Damages from the Pirated Copies of Computer Software】 *Researched and estimated by right holders' associations