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A Read-Only Future

A friend and I made a video for our final project! It’s about digital copyright enforcement and augmented reality interfaces.

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Predictions on the fallout from Tokyo’s anti-manga law

Gadget Tsuushin (getnews.jp) has made some tongue-in-cheek predictions about what will happen now that the Tokyo Metropolitan legislation restricting sales of certain targeted manga and anime has been passed.

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Tokyo Government passed anti-manga bill into law

Sad panda is sad Today, 15 Dec 10, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly passed Bill 156 into law. As previously discussed, this law gives the Tokyo government additional powers to restrict the sales of manga, anime and video games based on … Continue reading

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Tokyo Government to pass tough ordinance against mature manga

The law doesn’t touch this The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is set to pass new legislation restricting the sales of manga depicting certain sexual acts to minors under eighteen. Contrary to what certain easily-excitable individuals may proclaim, this is not a … Continue reading

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The Great Digital Divide

Lain for President! Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of teenagers at a political rally and encouraged them to tell their friends to participate in the political process. (via Kotaku) “I want you to tell them, ‘It’s … Continue reading

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Re: Possible Japanese Censorship Law

I wrote too much while replying to tj han’s comments on my previous post about this issue, so I decided to make another one. Once again, I would like to stress that I am not a lolicon. I am disgusted … Continue reading

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Possible Japanese Censorship Law

Things like this piss me off. Japanese National Police Agency’s New Law against “Manga, Anime, Game Expression” Today, I got an email from a Japanese creator, letting us know about the new law currently being discussed to be applied by … Continue reading

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