Someone got arrested and jailed in Japan for copyright infringement over sharing youtube videos of visual novels, and people are getting mad about it for some reason?
Visual novels have always had some degree of content embargos on them because you literally kill all reason to buy them if you can just watch the entire thing.
It’s not rare to see fresh releases have a clause that prevents showing material of them beyond a certain point in the story in their entirety, forbid commentary-less runs and/or ending videos.

Not to mention the youtuber was making edits to reduce run time. Essentially condensing the story into an abridged and more easily consumed form. Without commentary!
That will harm sales because some people don’t want to sit through a 20+ hour visual novel.

All the online outrage seems to be just around “evil corporation crushing youtuber with copyright abuse” and it’s completely missing the nuance of the case.
A visual novels gameplay is the story, so by putting that story out there you are violating copyright.
The fact they were cutting down the runtime by removing any of the filler parts which makes it more consumable than the source material, which makes it a substitute. AND the content was monetized.

This guy deserved to be slapped with copyright infringement.

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