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Japanese Arrested for Distributing Manga Online




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Sethimothy



Joined: 13 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:51 pm Reply with quote
According to http://www.manganews.net/ (see front page) three Japanese men where arrested for having available over seventeen THOUSAND volumes of manga.

If it's not appropriate to share these sort of stories here, I apologize, but I figured ANN readers would be interested.

It's notable because this is the first time in Japanese history (according to the article) that such arrests had ever been made.
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Gauss



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:36 pm Reply with quote
Lordie, talk about obsessed. A guy with multiple scanners working serious overtime might, maybe, perhaps get that much done in 4 years. I think jail might actually be good therapy for him.
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Sethimothy



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:42 pm Reply with quote
How difficult can it be? If you have a good scanner, you can easily scan and then save 4 pages a minute.

Assuming that the average volume has 100 pages, that's...

Let's see here, 17000 * 100 = 1,700,000. Divide that by 4 = 425,000. Divide that further by 60, as there are 60 minutes to an hour, and you get a little over 7,000 hours of work.

Dizzam. Working 5 hours a week it really would take about 4 years.
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Gauss



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:44 am Reply with quote
Only 5 hours a week? The average is closer to 180 pages for a tankoubon (presuming they were not scanning phonebook-sized magazines). So...

17,000 * 180 = 3,060,000 pages.

4 pages per minute * 60 minutes * 9 hours * 365 days = 788,400 pages per year.

3,060,000 / 788,400 = 3,88 years (rounding down)

Take into account holidays and sickdays and 4 years looks like a good estimate for nine hour workdays. Of course those workdays would probably stretch to at least 10 hours when you add lunch, toilet visits and other idle moments.
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Sethimothy



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:45 pm Reply with quote
Regardless, looks like there just might be an online market for such things.
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