Four major publishing firms accused Cloudflare of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.

Cloudflare provided a server for “two massive manga piracy sites that distribute over 4,000 manga titles without permission and rack up 300 million views a month,” the publishers said.

At issue in the lawsuit was whether Cloudflare was the main entity in charge of pirated manga distribution.

Another Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251119_16/

  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    The court ruled that cloudflare made it too easy to register an account and create a domain. And that they didn’t do enough to prevent those domains from being used for piracy.

    Apparently under Japanese law that’s the barrier of proof they needed to cross.