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Internet pirates took another hit this week as dozens of anime piracy websites — including the popular Aniwave site — suddenly went dark. Fans were in mourning after the sites went down ...
The company's actions attracted national media attention and were harshly criticised by the Singaporean anime community as "sudden and severe". [27] [28] Anime fans were outraged by the issuing of legal threats to children as young as nine years old, as they believed children were unable to differentiate between legal and illegal downloading.
All sexualized depictions of people under the age of 18 are illegal in Australia, and there is a "zero-tolerance" policy in place. [4]In December 2008, a man from Sydney was convicted of possessing child pornography after sexually explicit pictures of underage characters from The Simpsons were found on his computer.
In 2020, the National Diet passed a law expanding the penalties to the download of manga, academic texts, and magazines, as well as banning "leech websites" that provide users hyperlinks to download torrent files of pirated materials, pasting hyperlinks of illegal websites on an anonymous message board, or providing "leech apps" for similar ...
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United States v. Handley, 564 F. Supp. 2d 996 (2008), was a court case in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa involving obscenity charges stemming from the importation of manga featuring pornographic depictions of fictional minors.
The production, sale, distribution, and commercialization of child pornography in Japan is illegal under the Act on Punishment of Activities Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the Protection of Children (1999), [1] and is punishable by a maximum penalty of five years in prison and/or a fine of ¥5,000,000. [2]
DeviantArt, historically stylized as deviantART, is an American online art community that features artwork, videography, and photography, launched on August 7, 2000, by Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens among others.