Last December, Maki Murakami filed a copyright infringement lawsuit (DMCA or Digital Millennium Act), suing the hosting service CloudFlare. In his complaint, the artist listed no less than 39 URLs, 8 of which belonged to the same domain.
Among these sites, the giant NyaHentai, 75th most visited site in Japan, according to Torrent Freak. With an estimated 24 million visits per month, the site specializes in adult content. It is far ahead of other sites, all known to violate copyrights.
We can mention, among the sites attacked by the Murakami team, Erocool.net (more than 1.6 million visits) or even hentaidok.com and doghentai.com, with respectively around 250,000 and 300,000 visits per month.
Following the complaint, all titles present on NyaHentai have been removed as well as some of the other targeted URLs. However, the author’s legal team seems to want to go further, filing a new DMCA with a subpoena request.
The team is seeking to push CloudFlare to share information identifying the operator(s) behind the pirate sites and in particular NyaHentai. An approach that seems to follow that of some Japanese publishers.
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Last December, four Japanese manga publishing giants (Shogakukan, Shueisha, Kadokawa and Kodansha) joined forces. Their aim was to enforce the new copyright legislation established in Japan by subpoenaing the authors of the counterfeit broadcasts also passing through CloudFlare.
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