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The system will train AI to recognize piracy websites by analyzing their layouts, advertisements, and content patterns. It will also utilize image recognition to detect unauthorized use of manga and anime materials provided by publishers.

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[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Thats a way to kill a bit market to japan.

Anime become something thanks to piratery, if not it will be only a jp thing. If pirate anime sites stop existing. Japan will never sell a anime figure again overseas.

[–] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunetly it might survive due to anime going mainstream. Alghtough only anime. Manga and light novels are going to burn.

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Where do you get your light novels? Usually when I search for them they don't exist.

[–] incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

Just search using Yandex. Google and unfortunately DGG are anti-piracy nowdays so they are already horrible to search for this.

[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Why not just provide better overseas support for anime and manga?

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Providing good service takes actual effort

[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 4 points 18 hours ago

I guess you're right. I guess I was thinking better service would equate to more sales /less worry about piracy

[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 14 hours ago

Nyaa will prevail

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Assuming this s shit ai would not only work but be even remotely accurate.
Even assuming rorbots.txt isn't used,
It sounds as easy as any other method to circumvent.
I also find it kinda ironic Japan is so xenophobic the don't seek to realize that piracy is the reason anime became a worldwide thing to begin with.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No shit. Way back when, we traded VHS tapes of fan-subbed anime across continents. I subbed two episodes of a show someone brought from Japan on laserdisc for a convention. This was the only way to watch anime back then. As fun as it was, nobody in their right mind wants to go back to all that hassle, so just provide legal options. If you build it, they will come.

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

they never get it, like a mayority of pirates would buy if it was easy to do without hassle
as our god newel himself said

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 8 points 21 hours ago

No but the piracy website just gonna include a robots.txt and now you're back to square dumb, Japan

[–] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Piracy is the best thing that happened to anime. Without it, anime and Japan wouldn't be nearly as popular.

They're shooting themselves on the foot. People discover anime and manga through piracy, and then if they love it, they end up spending money on it.

Just look at Berserk. I bet 90% of people who spent money on the mangas and all the deluxe editions discovered it through "illegal" means.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In South and Central America Goku is probably the second most recognizable male icon next to Jesus. Piracy includes bootleggers so you have to wonder if any of that is possible without piracy.

[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In South and Central America Goku is probably the second most recognizable male icon next to Jesus.

Are you sure about that? 1000042968

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who's that dude on the left? Okay so maybe third XD.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

idk who it is either, I'm guessing he plays sports because of the logos

[–] Baylahoo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If you are being serious, his name is Lionel Messi, an Argentinian native, and he is one of the most popular athletes world wide. He plays soccer but is towards the end of his career at this point as he plays in the United States professional soccer league, MLS, which is pretty much retirement for a player of his caliber. The jersey he is wearing is from FC Barcelona, in the Spanish professional soccer league, which is where he spent the majority of his career and gained his popularity. If you were joking then you got me haha.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Nope genuinely never heard of him, thanks for the info

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 36 points 1 day ago

Or in another words: how did some lame tech company sell a web crawler for a duck ton of money to a bunch of senile government employees because it had an AI sticker.

[–] incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

"It will also utilize image recognition to detect unauthorized use of manga and anime materials provided by publishers" If this somehow backfires and sites like CBR or TheGame fall victim to this, it will be very funny! but I hope this AI fails miserably!

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

So how does one acquire the training data that this will use. It sounds like they are gonna gather "all" of the original copies from various publishers in order to train the AI. Would be a real shame if someone were to discover where that was being stored.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

massive financial losses due to piracy,

No. That's not "losses". It's just potentially lost sales. In reality though we call that, "wishful thinking". So to Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs I say:

Laughing fairy holding her hands in the air under the text, "Keep Wishing!"

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 4 points 21 hours ago

I rather pay 10 dollars for Miru on the playstore to torrent anime effectively than to subscribe to netflix or whatever else gives people anime because they never have what I would want

Even though I don't watch anime anymore, manwha + music separates my work life and entertainment from my pc so I can't just work more effectively

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

what will actually happen :

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 10 points 1 day ago

Funny how they don't even bother attacking torrent beyond harassing ISPs lol

Centralized corporate trash can get fucked

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago

Another reason to hate AI!