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Interrupting your Nijisanji posts to inform you that Rushia is doing her best to not be forgotten

She just sued her fans for saying she's creepy online with 8 lawyers against 1 and lost :kekw:

"TL;DR (Also, I've never had to read legalese in Japanese before so apologies in advance for any errors.)

The court proceedings ended on Oct. 27, 2023, a judgment was passed on Jan. 18.

The anonymous posts were posted on Aug. 15-16, 2022, so the court request may have been filed around then.

She hired eight lawyers for this one request. The defendant, the SoftBank Group (presumably because they provided internet/mobile data to the anonymous poster(s)), had only one.

Translation of one of the two anonymous posts in the report:

You should really stop saying things like, "I'm gonna lick this knife," "I wanna kill 'em" at age 33.

It's just creepy.

Act your age!

(The other only contained a redacted URL, apparently to imgur.)

Her five arguments justifying the disclosure of information were:

1. Breach of privacy

Judgment: Invalid because Rushia's age is discoverable with a single Google search.

2. Infringing her honour

Judgment: It is in fact creepy to say things like "I'm gonna lick this knife," or "I wanna kill 'em," so it wouldn't be considered illegal under Japanese law.

3. Copyright violations

Judgment: The image was hosted on an external site (imgur) so linking it isn't illegal since you can't know if the poster uploaded it. (Also it apparently wasn't copyrightable for some reason...? Something about it being editable.)

4. Copyright requirement to source other people's work with a name

(Apparently the imgur screenshot cropped out her name)

Judgment: The wording was kinda confusing for this one, but I think the final judgment was that the name didn't need to be displayed because the image redacted personally identifiable information...?

5. Disclosure is necessary in order to press charges against the anonymous posters

There was no specific judgment for this argument.

Most people in the replies and quote-retweets seem to be most amused about the judgment for Argument #2, as a judge told her in polite legalese that they agreed with the anonymous poster."

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