The Japanese are going full Big Entertainment with piracy. They are using the "we are losing countless money untold" (which is impossible since you can't lose what you never had) argument and spending TONS of money to try to shut things down globally. And they are partnering up with Western entities to try to do this. And in Japan, they've upped the criminal laws to attack their potential customer base in country.
Heck, the Japanese are getting so whacked, I saw that the old Urusei Yatsura anime series is apparently being edited to remove "blink and you'll miss it" nods to other shows, Japanese and Western. Apparently, showing characters from another anime for a second in the background is an insane copyright violation or something.
