The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered Cloudflare to pay $3.2 million to major Japanese publishers after the U.S. firm was accused of hosting servers for manga piracy sites. ……
Four major publishing firms — Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan and Kadokawa — accused Cloudflare of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles. ……
Do they expect Cloudfare to vet every single site they host or something? This is the most stupid shit I’ve read today, even if intellectual property wasn’t actual bullshit.
Can you imagine an internet where the owners of every router was responsible for the content of every packet that crossed it?
The reason is probably that they warned them, though I don’t see how is cloudflare responsible.
Why not? Buying and selling stolen goods is illegal. I know it’s a hussle, but the company is rolling in money and forcing it to be bear the cost of being compliant with the law seems reasonable.
On the other hand, intellectual property and copyrights are bullshit, so I’m a bit torn.