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Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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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/

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 84 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Sounds quite dystopian, setting a precedent for either (or both) the host being considered accomplice for any wrongdoings of any third parties, and/or inducing hosting companies to become informal polices. And it comes in quite a curious time, when the EU is trying to push for chat control, some US states are trying to push for AI surveillance cameras, Brazil passed a law that requires apps to do facial recognition, GrapheneOS is being targeted by French news media, and all those using potential crimes and cherry-picking cases to justify.

[–] TotallyNotADolphin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I agree that holdibg hosts liable for user actions is a real slippery slope, in this case it seems to be a result of Cloudflare not following up a previously agreed upon settlement with the publishers in 2019. If you agree to remove the content, and then don't do it, then further suits are to be expected.

However the article does not go into further details about the specifics of the 2019 settlement, so it's hard to conclude if this is a classic fuck around and find out or just a further step of IP-holders going after everything and anything willy nilly

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