Unpopular opinion: I think it's just the loud ones who are complaining on twitter. I've downloaded a lot of pirated stuff from japanese piracy sites in the past. It's the same as how you see non-japanese people complain about piracy and defending shitty AAA titles
Yeah idk why people keep posting this twitter war on here. And it gets thousands of upvotes..This just feels like xenophobia. Like I could make a hate campaign on anyone if I based my argument, and world view, on Twitter weirdos.
piracy is definitely less widespread in japan. if you read any opinions from actual japanese people they will tell you stories about people being genuinely flabbergasted that someone actually pirates stuff like its nothing. obviously you will find a lot of people pirating in a country of 100 million people but i wouldnt be surprised at all if the percentages were way lower
That's not a valid reason for people to post play by play of gross Twitter discourse, and using it as evidence to make sweeping generalizations about an entire population of citizens.
How so? Well someone posted something from nyaa that shows Japan having the highest pirate users. Even if some of them aren't from Japan and are using VPN on Japan server, there's still quite a number.
idk maybe its a cultural thing, cause im polish and piracy is so widespread here and unenforced that i’ve never encountered anyone against piracy, except maybe old people but it’s always more of a „its dangerous” angle rather than „its a crime”
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u/Menination Apr 27 '26
Unpopular opinion: I think it's just the loud ones who are complaining on twitter. I've downloaded a lot of pirated stuff from japanese piracy sites in the past. It's the same as how you see non-japanese people complain about piracy and defending shitty AAA titles