Attack on Titan: Four Japanese Manga publishers sue Cloudflare
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/02/01/manga_publishers_sue_cloudflare/
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The four companies – Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan and Kadokawa – together dominate the market for Japanese comics and own many iconic properties.
The publishers also believe they're victims of widespread piracy.
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Japanese media [2]report the companies are therefore going to file a suit against Cloudflare, which they feel facilitates piracy by providing its services to sites that share unlicensed Manga.
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Cloudflare has seen this movie before: in 2017 Japanese publishers asked it to help take down a pirate Manga site called Mangamura. Cloudflare helped, and Mangamura collapsed. Cloudflare later promised to stop mirroring Japanese sites if it was satisfied the content they host was pirated.
The four publishers and Cloudflare settled an action after that incident.
[5]Volunteer-run pirate Manga website attacked, loses hashed passwords, has ‘nobody’ to fix the mess
[6]Japan's bullet trains replace smoking rooms with Zooming rooms
[7]No more DRM-free downloads as Amazon's ComiXology app set to disappear inside Kindle
[8]Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo dies aged 92
Now the publishers are back, again arguing that any form of facilitation of unlicensed distribution harms the entire manga community – from artists and writers to distributors and bookstores.
The four plan to pursue action in the Japanese Supreme Court.
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Japanese media report that Cloudflare has denied that its services assist pirates. The Register has asked Cloudflare for further comment. ®
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Japanese Supreme Court?
Given Japanese courts were handing out (suspended) jail sentences and 2 million yen fines to Youtubers posting review videos of copyrighted films, this is an open and shut case in a Japanese court.
So, in Japan it is forbidden to review a film ? If you're a nobody, that is.
Well that's just nuts.
So based on their claim, when are they taking all the ISP's to court?
Why stop there? Lets takedown all the DNS servers.
Even better why dont they go after ICANN? I'll get the popcorn.
John Bunt is dead.
For those who don't know, he tried that back in 2006 when he sued three ISPs whose customers had, he said, posted disparaging remarks on the forums of a laptop battery website he had set up. He lost, completely. https://www.5rb.com/case/bunt-v-tilley-others/
That case was in the UK courts. Do the Japanese courts think on the same lines, or do they prefer to follow the US model of justice.
Let me correct that for you: US model of retribution.
Don't be silly. It's the best justice money can buy.
Cloudflare has denied that its services assist pirates
ROTFL
Now tell us that you take abuse seriously too.