Shueisha is targeting Shonen Jump Leakers.

Anyone interested in reading boy jumping's latest content, you'll quickly learn that even though the magazine is released on Sunday/Monday (in Japan it's Monday, but it starts on Sunday depending on where you live), leaks usually come out in the middle of the week (around Wednesday). many one piece For example, fans get information about the next chapter before its official release. This is because these leaks spread quickly through social media, sometimes even when we don't want them to.

It is highly unlikely that the leakers are all on “the same team.” Because there are too many leakers to consider everyone involved in any kind of “organized leak industry.” But it could be a problem for publisher Shueisha. boy jumping magazine. The company has been trying to target and block leakers for some time.

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Recently, user X (formerly Twitter) (@AsarathaHS)) shared part of a document filed in a California court, in which it requested identifying information for at least two accounts. (one of them is already disabled):

Since Shueisha's subpoena was filed in California (where X is based) and not Japan, this is probably an action covering the activities of And this is just one of many measures taken to stop the leak. This is one of the few cases where we can confirm that social media accounts posting leaked content are also being targeted..

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Chapters are usually “out” before their official release.

Leakage was one of the biggest headaches. boy jumping Shueisha has been working hard to produce pirated content over the past few years. jump To combat pirated copies distributed online, we make our titles available internationally through platforms such as Manga Plus. Some argue that piracy is mostly a “service problem”, so the best way to fight it is to provide better services to compete with it, and that seems to be how Shueisha is mostly attempting to solve this problem.

However, as soon as the magazine was released in Japan (at least for a while, it was available for free) and chapters began to be released officially, leaks became the magazine's biggest issue. Some people may have access to a chapter a few days before it's released and then post it online (and once that chapter becomes available, Scanlater will quickly translate it before the official version is released). For this to work, it's likely that people inside the industry will leak chapters, but there may also be many people involved within the magazine's operational chain.

Last February, two people were arrested on charges of illegal distribution. boy jumping A copy has been leaked and is suspected of violating copyright law. Japanese newspapers described them as 'foreigners', and one of them introduced himself as Samir Musa. They are believed to have purchased the magazine in bookstores in Tokyo ahead of its release date, taken photos of it and posted “early leaks” online. If this is true, then they were just customers of the bookstore and could have accessed the magazine simply by purchasing it (whereas posting the entire content online seems more in line with the standard definition of piracy). But this shows how worried Shueisha is about leakers.

In order for the magazine to be published nationwide on Monday, it would have to be delivered to stores earlier, and some people would be able to purchase it in advance. With so many people (and so many bookstores) involved, this honestly seems like a difficult problem to solve. Asking a court to delete or identify an account may discourage some, but this approach usually doesn't completely prevent problems from occurring. For now, the leaks continue to come on a weekly basis, but we'll see how it develops in the future.

Source: X (formerly Twitter)

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