One of the most popular cartoon pirate sites in the world was huge.

MangadexOne of the biggest Agrigators of illegal cartoon contents was a big hit after more than 700 series was removed from the website. In recent years, many Japanese publishers and production companies have tried to crack down on illegal distributions of cartoons and animations. For example, SHUEISHA took a lot of measures to prevent the illegal cloning and leakage of popular cartoon magazines. Sonen jump (one piece,,, Jujutsu kaisen).

Due to the joint goal of stopping illegal cloning, many companies work together to close the major websites, and the creation of CODA in Japan is related to this effort. However, illegal cloning is not a problem that is simply solved by terminating the website. Many associations have collaborated with the government to bring people to court to be involved in illegal cloning.

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Major companies support a new bill in the United States to kill an animated illegal cloning site.

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In the case of Mangadex and online illegal cloning

In the last few hours Mangadex won the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).. As a result, the website has removed chapters from numerous series. The report claims that claim So far, more than 700 series have been affected.However, the actual number can be high and can still increase in the next few hours. Fans have organized all series of series affected on the same platform as Reddit.

This notification appears from another company, so it seems to be adjusted. According to the publicly available data, the company includes Kakao, NAVER, SQUARE ENIX, Kodansha, and Houbunsha. COMESO, a company that provides illegal cloning services, acts on behalf of some of these companies.Comeso did not publish all notices. This notification was not aimed at Mangadex. But perhaps it is the largest website affected. The removed title is included ApotheCary Diaries, Gachiakuta, DestinyAnd many others.

Obviously, the title without license and without licenses were removed from the platform. Unexpected content is still technically illegal, but fans tend to be considered trivial problems because they cannot access this series. According to the mediator, this is the first time that this scale has first happened on the website. Many fans were surprised because Mangadex was known as a “no profit” approach in the community. The platform does not have advertising and does not benefit from aggregate content.

The platform recently announced a new policy dealing with a “excessive profit” scan group. But from a legal point of view, unlicensed distribution is still illegal even if it is hosted on a platform without advertising. As an aggregator, it is controversial whether there is a legal responsibility for the content posted on the platform, but it is necessary to comply with the DMCA notice anyway.

What will happen from now on?

The adjusted submission of a number of DMCA notifications will probably fear the future similar behavior in Mangadex administrators and scan groups. This can eventually end Mangadex. But as Mangadex was created after Batoto was terminated, Scanlators would find a new platform.

Source: Animation Corner

Sonen jump

SHONEN JUMP is Japan's largest comic magazine and is the home of major hit songs such as Dragon Ball, One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen and My Hero Academia. The magazine, which began in 1968, has been published every week since then.