Bighit Music Provides Updates On Legal Proceedings Against Violation Of Bts’s Rights

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This is BIGHIT MUSIC.

We would for illustration to supply an update connected ineligible proceedings against violations of BTS’s authorities arsenic of nan first 4th of 2026.

1. Legal Action Regarding Organized and Repetitive Malicious Posts
In nan first 4th of this year, we person initiated ineligible action against nan authors of malicious posts astir our artists, identified done instrumentality reports and our monitoring of home online communities (TheQoo, Instiz, Naver, Daum (Women’s Generation, Jjukbbang Cafe, SoulDresser, etc.), Nate, Dmitory, aggregate DC Inside “galleries” including nan BTS Gallery, Male Celebrities Gallery, and Domestic Entertainment Gallery, Ilgan Best, FMKorea, etc.), euphony sites (Melon, Bugs Music, Genie Music, etc.), and world societal media channels (Threads, X, Instagram, YouTube, etc.).

We would for illustration to pass you that, based connected complaints we antecedently filed, aggregate defendants person been recovered blameworthy of reproach and defamation nether nan Act connected Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, and each has been sentenced to a fine. Using defamatory aliases insulting connection against our artists and creating and spreading rumors based connected mendacious facts are each acts that infringe upon nan authorities of artists.

In particular, we are alert of caller organized activities involving nan simultaneous posting of malicious contented and nan procreation of antagonistic comments astir our artists crossed aggregate online communities and societal media platforms, including “TheQoo.” In response, we person some utilized our real-time monitoring strategy and besides importantly expanded nan number of unit collecting grounds of malicious posts. In narration to this, we are proceeding pinch nan basal procedures for civilian and criminal litigation, including nan postulation of evidence, and we pass that moreover posts aliases comments that person already been deleted whitethorn still beryllium taxable to punishment. In this regard, we will return nan maximum ineligible action imaginable without immoderate colony aliases leniency.

In addition, we are continuing real-time archiving of acts of encouraging and spreading mendacious rumors and clone news astir our artists’ albums, concerts, and online content, arsenic good arsenic indiscriminate, malicious posts and organized comments that transcend reasonable limits, and we will clasp perpetrators accountable to nan fullest grade of nan law. All actions, including definitive insults aliases convulsive expressions, arsenic good arsenic dislike speech, malicious slander, and derogatory remarks intended to cunningly evade punishment, are afloat included among nan subjects of our ineligible complaints. We will return strict ineligible action against malicious acts that tarnish our artists’ estimation and achievements and inflict intelligence distress upon them.

Meanwhile, arsenic nan repeated posting of malicious posts and comments astir our artists continues, we would besides for illustration to pass you that we are considering ineligible action against circumstantial communities that, contempt our repeated warnings and requests for cooperation, person neglected to extremity nan repeated posting of malicious contented and comments.

2. Response to Invasions of Privacy and Stalking astatine Artists’ Residences
Furthermore, we are taking progressive protective measures for our artists regarding stalking acts that hap adjacent their homes including attempts to attack them. These measures see collecting grounds 24 hours a time and making contiguous reports to nan police. Even if a stalking incident is simply a one-time occurrence, nan perpetrator whitethorn beryllium punished nether existent laws for violating nan Act connected Punishment of Crime of Stalking and for trespassing. In this regard, we are afloat cooperating pinch requests from investigative agencies, specified arsenic submitting applicable materials. An individual who nevertheless committed repeated acts of stalking was precocious arrested and prosecuted connected charges of violating nan Act connected Punishment of Crime of Stalking and trespassing, and has been brought to trial. We will return each basal measures to guarantee that nan perpetrator receives a terrible punishment.

Unauthorized visits to an artist’s residence, pursuing them, waiting for aliases watching them adjacent their residence, filming their residence, and different actions that frighten our artists’ privateness and information arsenic good arsenic penning defamatory aliases malicious posts related to artists’ backstage life and creating aliases spreading mendacious rumors are not only crimes but besides origin heavy worry and accent to nan artists. We support a zero-tolerance argumentation to forbidden acts that infringe connected our artists’ privacy. We besides petition practice from fans truthful that their support for our artists tin lead to a mature instrumentality culture.

3. Crackdown connected Infringements of BTS’s Intellectual Property
Meanwhile, we are besides taking proactive protective measures regarding nan infringement of BTS’s IP (intellectual property) rights. As a consequence of our continued online and offline crackdowns related to BTS, definite improvements person been observed, specified arsenic a caller alteration successful forbidden income activities, peculiarly connected nationalist online distribution channels. In addition, successful collaboration pinch nan Ministry of Intellectual Property, nan Korea Customs Service, and typical judicial constabulary officers, we are actively conducting crackdowns connected suppliers of forbidden equipment astir performance venues, done customs, and connected online forbidden equipment income platforms.

Illegal products utilizing an artist’s IP not only infringe connected nan artist’s authorities by nan very enactment of accumulation and sale, but besides airs a precocious consequence of financial harm to fans purchasing specified forbidden products, owed to issues specified arsenic mediocre quality, inability to person refunds, and shipping fraud. We inquire that you debar purchasing forbidden products whenever imaginable successful bid to protect our artists’ IP and forestall harm to fans.

Reports from fans are of awesome thief successful nan ineligible actions we return to protect our artists’ rights. If you brushwood immoderate lawsuit of infringement connected nan authorities of our artists, please study them done nan “HYBE Artist Rights Violation Report Website (https://protect.hybecorp.com).”

We sincerely convey you for your emotion and support for BTS.

We will proceed to instrumentality protective measures for our artists and return much proactive measures to protect them.

Thank you.