https://torrentfreak.com/japans-2-trillion-yen-manga-anime-piracy-war-gets-fresh-hollywood-backing-240408/
Anti-piracy group CODA's war against online piracy has received renewed backing from the Hollywood studios & Netflix. The timing was perfect.
If only these groups spent all that money in underserved areas and paying artists. Classically, they'll instead go after the people filling their own service gaps.
They don't care about the artists lol it's about the distributors losing potential revenue.
Fuck them.
They take ages to localize Mangas, even famous ones like Jojo. If it wasn't for the community, Manga and Anime would have just a small fraction of attention it has today
They tried it with Tachiyomi.
Reader apps and programs are infinitely harder to recover from the just sending a lawyer to mangadex.
Anyway, they tried taking down Tachiyomi.
They bullied the maintainer successfully and the Tachiyomi team first removed the in-built functionaility for the sources then seized development on the app as a whole.
Due to Tachiyomi being FOSS (thanks again to all the devs) one of the primary maintainers forked and renamed the project :)
And now we are back to square one with Mihon :)
piracy is a service problem~
also of note, they never account for the fact that piracy increases sales in some aspects, without piracy - anime = small. buying physical books when they come on sale for a series you read online? yes, I have a nice collection. Merch, and so forth.
I'm still wondering when these execs and lawyers will start getting tarred and feathered for being clowns
There is a war on piracy in Japan? Huh. Guess the fact i haven't even noticed speaks to how well it's going.
Good luck at that! Says he, while knowing full well there's at least 5 tabs open right now on his tablet to websites hosting manga to read online