In Japan, copyright enforcement is far stronger. Selling illegal copies of Gundam DVDs on an auction site will not only get you arrested, but it will get you on the 6 o'clock news. Counterfit merchandise is illegal to bring into the country, and will get confiscated at customs if you are caught.
Im not sure I agree that the copyright here is that much stronger, there seem to be a lot of weird things going on. In Akihabara there are people on the street selling DVDs full of ROMs and bootleg porn every Saturday. They have been there for years. Every video rental store rents music CDs as well as DVDs and they have a stack of blank DVDR CDR and even minidisc media right next to the check out for people to burn themselves copies. The rental stores even have dirt cheap region free Chinese import DVD players stacked 6 feet high on every floor.
Also, there are hundreds and hundreds of Manga cafe's (a place to hang out. drink coffee and read comics) with thousands of comics and hundreds of PS2 games available for customers to use. I highly doubt they are all officially licensed. Hard to believe though this may be convenience stores sell magazines with detailed articles on "how to use bit torrent" and "how to hack your PSP for iso images"
It seems the government here has been spooked by the specter of P2P without really looking at all the other infringing that is going on.
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I don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for but I am enjoying listening to a lot of audio books from Librivox. This is the direct link to their page on HG Wells http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?title=&author=H.+G.+Wells&action=Search and here is Jules Verne http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?title=&author=Jules+Verne&action=Search Perhaps a little more speculative the pure science fiction?
In Japan, copyright enforcement is far stronger. Selling illegal copies of Gundam DVDs on an auction site will not only get you arrested, but it will get you on the 6 o'clock news. Counterfit merchandise is illegal to bring into the country, and will get confiscated at customs if you are caught. Im not sure I agree that the copyright here is that much stronger, there seem to be a lot of weird things going on. In Akihabara there are people on the street selling DVDs full of ROMs and bootleg porn every Saturday. They have been there for years. Every video rental store rents music CDs as well as DVDs and they have a stack of blank DVDR CDR and even minidisc media right next to the check out for people to burn themselves copies. The rental stores even have dirt cheap region free Chinese import DVD players stacked 6 feet high on every floor. Also, there are hundreds and hundreds of Manga cafe's (a place to hang out. drink coffee and read comics) with thousands of comics and hundreds of PS2 games available for customers to use. I highly doubt they are all officially licensed. Hard to believe though this may be convenience stores sell magazines with detailed articles on "how to use bit torrent" and "how to hack your PSP for iso images" It seems the government here has been spooked by the specter of P2P without really looking at all the other infringing that is going on.