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On the topic of permissions and why Cover acts the way it does
>4 Japanese Publishers Sue Cloudflare for 460 Million Yen
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> The Japanese-language manga piracy site Mangamura became inaccessible in April 2018, after Japanese publishers had filed criminal complaints against the website from summer to fall of 2017.
>Japanese authorities confirmed in May 2018 that they were actively investigating Mangamura.
>Police have since made several arrests related to uploading unauthorized images on the site.
>Kadokawa, Kodansha, Shueisha, and Shogakukan's lawyers then filed a motion with the Tokyo District Court in August 2018, requesting Cloudflare to stop hosting content for several piracy websites.
>According to the motion, the manga piracy websites for which Cloudflare had offered services included Hoshi no Romi, an apparent "Mangamura successor" website.
>Shuppan Kōhō Center announced in February 2020 that Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Kadokawa had reached a settlement with Cloudflare in June 2019.
>Cloudflare agreed to stop caching content on its Japanese servers from specified piracy websites if the Tokyo District Court deems that the sites are infringing on copyrights.
People is always talking “just stream unmonetized”, “just stream unarchived” as if the problem would be either getting a YouTube strike or getting the stream claimed and losing whatever superchat and ad revenue they would get.
When nips go after infringement of their rights they usually do it just like this, court of law, operators arrested, millions of dollars in damage. Getting a YouTube strike is the littlest of the troubles one could get.
