The manga industry lost more than $ 6 mmdd by piracy in 2021

Piracy is a way in which many people are exposed to different works. However, this practice has negative repercussions in the environment. In this way, a new report has pointed out that over the last year, the DELMARVA industry has substantially increased its losses thanks to piracy.

According to authorized books from Japan (ABJ), an organization that was created with the aim of raising awareness about the damage to piracy, the losses due to this practice became ¥210 billion yen ($1.8 billion dollars) throughout 2020, A ¥780 billion yen ($6.7 billion dollars) for the period from January to October 2021.

ABJ has shared a list with the 400 most popular Sleeve piracy sites. Only the first three posts increased from 12.5 million users by 2020, to 326 million during the last year. According to At sushi Ito, who directs the tactics against piracy in Squash and also works for ABJ, this increase It can be a consequence of the pandemic. This was what he commented on:

There is no miraculous solution and everything we can do is continue working to stop them. If you register, the game ends there.

Things are even worse than when Manga-Mura was at his heyday. It may have been the result of the 'lifestyles to stay at home' under the pandemic of the coronavirus.

For its part, editorials like Squash have done everything possible to combat this practice throughout Japan and other parts of the world. Only in 2019 was closed the manga-mura site, one of the greatest places of manga piracy in the world. However, in November 2021, Manga Bank emerged, which has been in charge of filling the emptiness that remained in the market.

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Editor's note:

Once again, talking about piracy is quite complicated. While it is true that this type of practices damage the industry, it is also true that they help certain works to reach more people, which maybe they are willing to pay for official copies of the sleeves that they like the most.