Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers

speckx 37 points 5 comments April 20, 2026
www.theverge.com · View on Hacker News

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throwawayk7h

The article later clarifies that the actual crime was to post extensive screenshots and descriptions of movies on his blogs, to such detail that it was essentially like reading a picture-book adaptation of the movie. This is really not the same as "posting spoilers."

rendall

For me, there is a sign-up modal overlay that prevents reading or scrolling, even though the entire article loads. How did others manage to read the article?

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