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New Study On Effects Of Manga Piracy Show Piracy's Effects Are More Nuanced Than Good Or Badfrom the comicly-nuanced deptIn all of our years and years of discussions on piracy and copyright infringement, one sweeping issue with the public discourse on the topic is how bereft of nuance it is.
Serving as an example of this, a recent study out of Japan on the effects of piracy for the manga industry shows exactly these kind of mixed and complicated results.
Interestingly, if a manga series is a completed finished product with no more issues being produced, antipiracy efforts show positive sales effects for that series.
On the other hand, for ongoing series, antipiracy efforts actually reduce future sales of that series.
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