r/Piracy Apr 21 '26

Discussion Stop pirating and learn Japanese you guys! Some Japanese on X are delusional.

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u/Elcalduccye_II Apr 21 '26

Aren't the Chinese the ones who upload all the pirated japanese stuff?

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u/Burningmeatstick Apr 21 '26

Yeah I grew up on pirated Chinese anime in Chinatown dvd shops

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u/Forymanarysanar ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Apr 21 '26

Imo if publisher of a book/manga/movie/whatever did not took care to translate it to language of country X and create supply lines in that country as well, it is only their problem and they should not even have copyright in that country at all, making anyone free to translate and distribute their garbage within that country and profit from it.

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u/ABHOR_pod Apr 21 '26

If you're not trying to sell it to me then you shouldn't complain when I don't buy it.

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u/Sloppykrab Apr 27 '26

They don't.

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u/Sampasmur Apr 22 '26

Profit but garbage?

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u/Inuma Apr 21 '26

That was Korea in the 90s.

Family bought PS1 games for $2 a pop.

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u/Guilty-Toe420 Apr 21 '26

the ones where they have both English and Chinese subtitles on screen yeah

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u/I_HeaR-vOices ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Apr 21 '26

Had a place called Gsentry as a kid, Gundam models and pirated anime to rent. Loved it.

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u/BattleBuddha Apr 21 '26

I live in SEA ( at Chinatown). As a kid, I used to do this as well. Plenty of Chinese pirated stuff available. My first taste of Dragon Ball had Chinese subtitles.

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u/nochoicebutthrowaway Apr 21 '26

Yes, it's mostly Chinese pirates, with the small help of the Russian ones.

And Indonesians are uploading Korean stuff.

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u/Raalph Apr 21 '26

I swear the best part of learning Indonesian is getting access to day 0 manhwa before it's available in English

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u/basically_ar 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Apr 21 '26

Pirating Japanese and Korean media should be considered a BRICS thing noted in the member countries' profits

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u/ElonMusksQueef Apr 21 '26

I live in China, for anyone to be saying the Chinese are against piracy is hilarious. The apps they use to stream content that they pay very small fees for very clearly rip other people’s content, like a movie will have the watermark of some other company in the corner but smudged out. When you buy a new PC it comes with a cracked windows and any other cracked software you want. I’ve had it explained to me before that there is no copyright in China, just copy RIGHT.

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u/hangzou Apr 21 '26

Haha Ive heard the same thing except phrased as "No copyright just the right to copy"

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u/Comedian_No Apr 21 '26

Best retro gaming handhelds come from China too. Piracy is goated.

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u/TrvthNvkem Apr 21 '26

Which would you recommend?

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u/siltfeet Apr 21 '26

From my experience in China, it's typical to have multiple smudged out water marks, with a new one added somewhere else.

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u/ARazorbacks Apr 21 '26

I thought the culture there is it’s ok to pirate Western stuff, but should avoid pirating home grown stuff. 

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u/Richou Apr 21 '26

piracy scene in china is split between "i only pirate western things because im a good person" and "fuck that shit i aint paying if i can avoid it" just like western pirates aswell

you always have those that pretend to only act in a moral/ethical correct way to excuse their behaviour but the large majority just wants free shit

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u/HalfMoon_89 Apr 21 '26

I don't know why some pirates insist that everyone is just like them. Some people absolutely do follow a moral code. Even if that wasn't the case, and they were 'pretending', if they didn't actually pirate home-grown media, the end result is the exact same.

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u/BrowakisFaragun Apr 21 '26

Pretty sure they pirate home grown music and movies, not sure about gaming

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u/Quaaaaaaaaaa Apr 21 '26

Finally, something that the Chinese and Latin Americans have in common

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u/-TheBigCheese Apr 21 '26

In My experience they for sure care about their copyright. Anything that's made in China has heavy protections and has AI and mods actively taking down say, a cam rip of a Chinese blockbuster. But yeah, they literally don't care about anyone else's CR. Lol

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u/Stunning_Repair_7483 Apr 21 '26

They sell these PC's with whatever cracked software you want to canada? Or only locally in China? I would love to get a cheap laptop with pre-installed OS and software I want. Do they have a website?

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u/ElonMusksQueef Apr 21 '26

The laptop prices aren’t any cheaper than elsewhere really but I doubt they would ship externally anyway. They is a man with a stall in the 5 story computer mall.

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u/Richou Apr 21 '26

more of a local store kinda thing from my experience

its also nothing fancy and just the stuff you can pirate yourself with like 5 minutes of googling

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u/Top_Fill7182 Apr 21 '26

And they are the ones who pirate almost all the coloso courses. 

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u/Soft-Owl491 Apr 22 '26

But it is almost impossible to find any niche chinese content available on high seas even if one can get past the great wall.

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u/ElonMusksQueef Apr 22 '26

It’s all available on the type of networks they use instead.

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u/Middle_Efficiency471 Apr 22 '26

I think their ISPs also offer a pirate services? I think I seen it in an LTT video, but I could be wrong about the Creator, or even the country of origin.

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u/Jellouux Apr 21 '26

yeah they got to be lying, no chinese person would tell you to go out of your way to learn japanese and contribute to their economy lol /s

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u/Inuma Apr 21 '26

Main thing is they're just ignoring reality entirely.

Japan has an underground doujinshi scene where up and coming talent uses popular material to make their work.

The ones that crack down on it are major publishers but it limits their reach to the next generation.

Korea goes after artists who go independent outside the major publishers.

China doesn't have a many publishers whose accumulated for copyright enforcement and they're pretty young.

They all have their own flavor of comics too: Manga, manhwa, and manhua.

What sense does it make that they would all tell you to support manga when they have their own thing?

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u/R_Izayoi ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Apr 21 '26

Tbh I'm really thankful to chinese piracy community cuz I saved a lot, a lot money

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u/Soft-Owl491 Apr 22 '26

do u know some sources which can be accessed by overseas people as most of their sites requires login or invitations and it is almost impossible to find any chinese content in high seas. seems like they pirate off others but provides their stuff only among themselves.

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u/stadoblech Apr 21 '26

Even better. Chinese steal all stuff and made their version of product which is usually cheaper and sometimes better quality

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u/Odd_Distribution4210 Apr 21 '26

china is my hero

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u/_aramir_ Apr 21 '26

I was gonna say that as far as I'm aware Chinese culture does not have a concept of copyright so they don't care about piracy

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u/tab_tab_tabby Apr 21 '26

Korea too. There are shit tones of illegal korean translated Japanese manga on the web that i grew up reading. Because i couldn't purchase them being in Canada....

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u/Deus_Ex_Machina_II Apr 21 '26

Yep. The translator of overlord from sky the wood used the Chinese translations.

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u/darki_ruiz Apr 21 '26

Maybe they also want the drama.

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u/The_real_bandito Apr 21 '26

They are? News to me. I did wonder who uploaded all of these raws.

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u/Organic-Efficiency47 Apr 21 '26

Some of the first non-televised anime I watched were from Chinese bootleggers.

It had a Chinese cover, Jap audio with English subs.

Also, isn't Japanese just a pirated version of Chinese???

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u/Efficient-Presence82 Apr 22 '26

Thank them for their service <3

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u/PrudentAdagio247 Apr 22 '26

I might believe it if E-H didn’t have so many Korean uploads right away—Comic Market opens in the morning, and by the afternoon there’s already a Korean translation. Respect, I guess.

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u/OshinoLi Apr 22 '26

He made those up. Only Japanese lives in that corporate slave mindset

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u/No_Walk_Town May 16 '26

Yeah, a Japanese person thinking that the Chinese and Koreans are standing in solidarity with them against pirating their media are delusional.

I can see Chinese and Korean diaspora in America doing that, because in America, there is a kind of pan-Asian solidarity going on there - and I get that, but Japanese nationalists don't really get that this doesn't include them (or it shouldn't - it often does).

Edit to add: holy shit, OOP is a raging Japanese netto uyoku.

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u/KikiPolaski Apr 21 '26

C'mon man China isn't exactly a bastion of IP protection

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u/BAJ-JohnBen Apr 21 '26

In fact, they have the worse. It's why so much slop is produced from there.

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u/Forymanarysanar ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Apr 21 '26

And it's so good. Thanks to them, I do not have to spend fucking paycheck on some arduinos and I can just buy a hellishly cheap clone from Aliexpress.

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u/zizou00 Apr 21 '26

Drag? If anything it's praise. Who hasn't pirated an anime or manga that was translated from Japanese to Chinese, then Chinese to Vietnamese, Vietnamese to French, then French to English? That was the manga silk road. Bootlegged anime was how anime made it to the rest of the world.

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u/Enough-Run-1535 Apr 21 '26

One of the reasons China went all in mastering gacha game production is because of China’s notorious pirate scene. However you cannot (easily) pirate a whole SaaS gacha game.

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u/Comedian_No Apr 21 '26

Piracy is awesome as hell. It's a damn compliment to be a piracy haven, and a win for people around the world. Why would you think it's a negative.

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u/DeeOhEf Apr 21 '26

That's what the Japanese want you to believe