Japanese YouTuber convicted of copyright violation after uploading Let’s Play videos

 My Darling’s Embrace featuring a young woman with long brown hair wincing as a man in a white shirt yells at pink object wrapped around his wrist Image: Spike Chunsoft

A Japanese court has convicted a man of violating copyright law after he uploaded gameplay and anime videos without publisher permission. Reported by Japanese paper Asahi Shimbun, the 53-year-old man, Shinobu Yoshida, was sentenced to two years in prison and assessed a 1 million yen fine (or about $6,700 USD.)

Yoshida was arrested in May of this year after uploading gameplay videos of the visual novel Steins;Gate: My Darling’s Embrace back in 2019. According to Read Entire Article

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