On this day, fans are looking forward to more news from the barracks as the group's members have enlisted. However, in recent hours, news of a producer impersonating V and SUGA for profit has ѕнσ¢кed the fan community.
кσяєαn media is currently widely reporting that this producer is on trial for appropriating many demos of unreleased BTS songs or information related to the members' activity plans. But what is more remarkable is that this behavior is based on identity fraud.
Fans are currently focusing their attention on this incident and expressing surprise that BTS has suffered damage over the years:
Well, the showbiz world has never been simple for top superstars. BTS is one of the biggest victims of fraud, appropriation of intellectual property rights or exploitation of reputation for personal gain over the years. The group and Big Hit have repeatedly denounced and sued producers or staff for taking advantage of them for profit.
Recently, a producer A was brought before the court for trial on similar charges, but his behavior was even extremely treacherous. Specifically, кσяєαn media reported about "A man in his 20s who impersonated members of the group BTS was sentenced to prison in the first trial". On the 19th, Criminal Division 27 of the Seoul Central District Court (Judge Ham Hyun-ji) sentenced Mr. A (29), who was indicted on charges of violating the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, to one year in prison.
Mr. A is accused of approaching producer B as if he were SUGA from August to September 2022 and receiving unreleased guide music. In November of the same year, it was discovered that he contacted Suga by impersonating Mr. B and collected information related to albums and military service related to the time of enlistment. Then, Mr. A is also accused of impersonating V and receiving more than 10 unreleased guide sound files from other producers.
The court said, “There was a possibility that the victims and the affected company would suffer significant financial and social damage due to Mr. A’s actions,” and “It appears that the victims who pαѕѕed on undisclosed information suffered significant psychological damage". In particular, Mr. A has a history of being sentenced to prison in the past for crimes using the same and some similar мєтнods, and he committed the same crime while being investigated and tried for the same crime, so the court judged that the crime was "not good."
In addition, suspicions of unauthorized theft of information related to the release of albums of the agency that were not released to the public, unreleased sound source information, personal information and personal information of the affiliated singers, and schedules were also identified. The court predicted a high possibility of property and social damage to the victims and the affected company due to Mr. A's actions, and said, "It appears that the victims have suffered significant psychological damage." In particular, Mr. A was reprimanded for having been sentenced to prison in the past for crimes similar to the мєтнod of the crime in question, saying, "The damage has not been recovered at all and he has not been forgiven by the victims."
However, the reasons for sentencing were explained based on the fact that Mr. A is currently showing a remorseful attitude and that Mr. A's family is committed to leading the way. Mr. A is said to have participated in the song production process of a famous idol group in the past. He filed an appeal against the first trial ruling because he is dissatisfied with the result.
In response to this news, fans constantly expressed their anger at the fact that V and SUGA were impersonated and that BTS suffered many losses related to creative copyrights, finances as well as confidential information about activity plans:
- Will they ever release the names of Mr. A and the producers that gave up the guides? Cus I wanna know how this could happen, how could they impersonate Taehyung and Suga and how could the producers believe Mr. A when these producers should know Tae and Sugas correct email, phone numbers, etc and if those were changed bcus of ssngs why wouldn’t bh have systems set up to avoid impersonation??
- so a chronic abuser is possibly getting off again cz he's remorseful? poor taegi. so this was why tae had to start over? when he more likely was supposed to release maybe in January when his spotify pfp changed to Veautiful one?
- Wtf...... Ten stolen songs. You're kidding me, aren't you? How can I basically impersonate Taehyung? Where is the company?
- Bigнιт is the real problem here.
- WTF?? 10 of Taehyung’s songs stolen?? And this guy is a repeat offender??
- wait, so Tae recorded the guides and this person impersonated him to receive the guides from the producers???!!! or i don’t get?!! also, more than 10???!!!!!! and acting as a middle man btw Suga and another producer. jail him!!!!!!
- I feel that guy is not moving from his head. what if there is domeone bigger behinde him?.. why are those people targeting Taehyung always
- WELL. THIS IS HORRIBLE.
- 10 unreleased guide sound files wtf????
- Fr??????? 10 SONGS???? This is crazy-
- Wait You’re telling me that it took hype 2 mins to stop Vogue from using V, 2 mins to find out that Compose Coffee is decorating their shop with tæ photo cards and act. But needed a whole year to find out that someone is impersonating her artists and stealing their projects??
- Deserved! I wish for those stalkers and cosplayers to have the same fate with this man. They deserve to be sued so they would stop making them as cash cows and let them breath for they are human as well.
