{"id":4711,"date":"2002-04-04T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-04T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/04\/04\/ghibli-to-take-action-against-online-anime-distribution\/"},"modified":"2002-04-04T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-04T15:31:00","slug":"ghibli-to-take-action-against-online-anime-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ghibli-to-take-action-against-online-anime-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghibli to Take Action Against Online Anime Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Studio Ghibli executives and the Japanese Video Software Association have apparently recently become aware that at least one &#8220;camcorder&#8221; version of Spirited Away has made it onto the internet and is now being widely distributed through file-sharing program WinMX. Digital fansubs and anime episode file sharing has been going on in America for the past 2 years, however it is now coming to the attention of Japanese copyright owners and especially the aggressively anti-bootleg Studio Ghibli, which is arguing for legal prosecution of those illegally sharing anime online. In the past most Japanese companies have overlooked copyright infringing fansubs and episode trading; however widespread distribution of Spirited Away, which is still in Japanese theaters, seems to be generating a bit more serious concern among Japanese professionals. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/newse\/20020404wo21.htm\" target=\"_blank\">full article<\/a> from the Daily Yomiuri Newspaper for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/66.96.236.80\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio Ghibli executives and the Japanese Video Software Association have apparently recently become aware that at least one &#8220;camcorder&#8221; version of Spirited Away has made it onto the internet and is now being widely distributed through file-sharing program WinMX. Digital fansubs and anime episode file sharing has been going on in America for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}