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/

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’m confused about how any of this can be cloudflares fault. That’s like blaming the electricity supplier because someone is using that electricity to grow weed.

    • SharkStudios@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Em, because electricity is a fundemental force that you supply to someone and he uses it, unlike hosting a website which is something hosted on a server and you have full control and access to see what you are hosting.

      That is like saying why is it the chef’s fault that he put poison in a meal when he did it because someone paid him to do it, he might not have known about it but he is a expert in his field and shoult know to check and not put the fucking poison in.

    • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days 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.