A Liberal Democratic Party panel will submit a bill to the current Diet session to ban the taping of films by audience members in movie theaters, according to its members.The panel, headed by Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akira Amari, said Tuesday the proposed legislation is to help protect the film industry and intellectual property rights.Current copyright law does not prohibit a person from bringing a digital video camera into a movie theater and taping the film as long as the copy is for personal use only.Some of the copies, however, are sold as DVDs or put on the Internet. According to one account, the movie industry loses 20 billion yen a year from pirated copies.
well, the japanese movie industry is WEAK by my standards. anime movies and movies based off mangas make more money than original movies. this is a good step to prevent piracy.Even the korean market is coming along fine and ahead of japan's
Oh wait...no it wasn't.