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YouTuber Gang Who Unauthorizedly Summarized Movies and Dramas in '15 Minutes to the Ending' Earned 3.7 Billion Won

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The operator and employees of a YouTube channel who generated billions of won in revenue by reprocessing movies and dramas into short videos without the copyright holders' permission to create so-called "binge-watching" content have been handed over to the prosecution. The Yangsan Police Station in South Gyeongsang Province referred the YouTube channel to the prosecution on charges of violating copyright law.

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The Yangsan Police Station in Gyeongnam Province has referred eight individuals to the prosecution for illegally editing movie and drama footage and posting it on YouTube, thereby accumulating illicit profits of approximately 3.7 billion won. They even established a corporation to commit these crimes on a corporate scale, operating 26 channels and securing 1.46 million subscribers. The police have applied for a forfeiture preservation order prio…

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The operator and employees of a YouTube channel who generated billions of won in revenue by reprocessing movies and dramas into short videos without the copyright holders' permission to create so-called "binge-watching" content have been handed over to the prosecution. The Yangsan Police Station in South Gyeongsang Province referred the YouTube channel to the prosecution on charges of violating copyright law.

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A video production company was caught making billions of won in illicit profits by operating a so-called "binge-watching" YouTube channel that summarizes dramas and movies up to the ending without the copyright holder's permission. On the 31st, the Yangsan Police Department in Gyeongnam Province caught the corporation operating the YouTube channel on charges of violating the Copyright Act and arrested 8 people including the corporation's represe…

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(Yangsan=Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Jun-young = A person who raked in a large sum of money by operating a so-called 'binge-watching' YouTube channel that unauthorizedly summarizes content such as movies and dramas all the way to the ending...

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Monday, August 31, 2026.
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