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. ……
Making manga more accessible legally wouldn’t hurt, though.
As always, it’s not a price problem, it’s a service problem. Since Japanese publishers hate getting Manga outside the country it seems like, it’s a self inflicted wound.
Indeed. This this truly a WTF issue. And it gets even worse when you are not from US, like EU.
I have a big physical manga collection, but I can’t imagine paying a single cent to access manga digitally, let alone a subscription. For each one on my collection, I’ve already pirated digitally to read them. But I’d rather keep a permanent physical copy than being allowed to read it each month for a price.
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.
It turns out the outage was for them to scrub the evidence. /s
Not that I think they deserve this fine but 3.2 million might as well be slap in wrist.
I saw $479.1 million in 1st quarter.