I found this fascinating. Japanese twitter and the rest of the world collided, showing that many Japanese get their ethics and morality downstream from law, not vice versa. The Jap argument seems to be that because it is a crime for overseas people to pirate inaccessible games, that it is a genuine evil.
This all started as a response to this post:
This is one of the many reasons they get "Japanese Bonus Tracks" when they buy music, and it's why Toby Fox wants to be Japanese so he doesn't have to deal with mexicans rioting for an official spanish translation GOG release to download from a torrent for free.
But really, Japan is a 0th World Country and it's absurdly easy to buy anime, manga, music or games, you can just go outside and instantly get access to this at a reasonable price for your average japanese student, so they don't ever really think about pirating something, even the hikikomori are buypatrons.
So when a journalist, from a shithole such as Britain or Australia, goes to Japan and starts complaining about a minimarket selling manga with sexy skinny girls wearing skimpy clothing, she's demanding for all Culture to be shut down and replaced with weed and barber shops for Pakis to launder money to.
Can you imagine every store not relating to your interests and culture at all? We can only buy newports, this is why piracy is so prevalent for us.
The other reason is that Japan just doesn't have an antagonizing relationshit with their industry, it's a rare occurrence.
At this point we are basically South Korea, the "industry" is all libshits with a
Contempt For The Medium™ while subreddits are cracking Denuvo in order to not give money to
GREED™, absolute relationshit and it's why streaming is the only thing we have.
"Piracy is a Third World Problem." -GabeN