In a serious blow to on-line piracy, on April 25, 2024, Brazilian authorities carried out the second part of a coordinated operation referred to as Operation Animes, concentrating on the unlawful distribution of Japanese anime and Korean webtoons.
This was led by the civil police of 5 states – Alagoas, Ceará, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo – with the goal of defending mental property rights and dismantling felony networks that revenue from unlawful content material.
The operation, led by the Cybernetics Operations Laboratory (Ciberlab) of the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety, concerned the execution of 11 search warrants. Authorities have seized computer systems and laborious drives suspected of containing proof of copyright infringement.
As well as, two web sites that includes pirated anime and webtoons, the names of which weren’t made public, have been blocked and search engine outcomes for this content material have been deindexed.
In Brazil, the penalty for individuals who commit this crime is a jail sentence of two to 4 years and a advantageous (Article 184, §3 of the Brazilian Penal Code). The suspects can be charged with felony affiliation (Article 288 – Legal Code) and cash laundering (Article 1 – Legislation 9.613/1998).
Operation Animes mirrors the method of ‘Operation 404’, an earlier crackdown on on-line piracy, and is carried out in collaboration with worldwide organizations such because the Content material Abroad Distribution Affiliation (CODA), primarily based in Japan, and the Copyright Abroad Promotion Affiliation (COA). from South Korea.
Beforehand, within the first part of ‘Operation Animes’, quite a few anime piracy websites in Brazil, together with “goyabu.com” and “animeyabu.com”, have been shut down primarily based on CODA’s allegations.
A complete of 31 places have been eliminated as a part of this operation.
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