Website tycoon that smuggled 60,000 manga was sentenced to prison for up to 3 years

Recently Romi Hoshino, the administrator of Manga-Mura – the website accused of copyright infringement manga officially convicted. The Fukuoka District Court found this 29-year-old man guilty, he will be sentenced to 3 years in prison and must pay a fine of 10 million yen (2.1 billion dong) for causing an estimated 300 billion yen in damage to the industry. manga. At the same time, the amount of 62 million yen (VND 13 billion) of illicit income that Hoshino hid in foreign accounts was also confiscated.​

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Manga-Mura officially appeared in 2016 and within the following 2 years, it was continuously noticed by the Japanese government after a series of copyright infringement allegations from major publishers. By about April 2018, Manga-Mura was officially deleted, before that this website had about 100 million visits per month, providing pirated copies of 60,000 of the hottest manga in Japan, such as: One Piece nice Kingdom…

Shueisha, publisher of many series comic world famous ones, including One Piece, held a press conference following the verdict of Romi Hoshino. Shueisha’s representative said Hoshino was guilty and the court made a completely just decision.​

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It is known that the police had to spend a lot of effort to arrest Romi Hoshino. He fled to the Philippines in May 2019, a special task force was set up to track down this boss. Hoshino was eventually arrested in the Philippines after being placed on an international wanted list and deported to Japan in September 2019.