Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers

sspeckx about 4 hours ago 3 commentsRead Article on theverge.com

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throwawayk7h•about 3 hours ago

The article later clarifies that the actual crime was to post extensive screenshots and descriptions of movies on his blogs, to such detail that it was essentially like reading a picture-book adaptation of the movie. This is really not the same as "posting spoilers."

3eb7988a1663•22 minutes ago

If not for protecting media giants - this seems like a wonderful service. There are plenty of great movies I will never watch. Having the ability to scroll through a detailed summary with pictures would make it feel much more real than reading a media-less plot summary.

oliyoung•about 1 hour ago

Yeah, this seems more like a copyright issue than a "spoilers" issue