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The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered Cloudflare to pay $3.2 million to major Japanese publishers after the U.S. firm was accused of hosting servers for manga piracy sites. ……

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[–] Mihies@programming.dev 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Making manga more accessible legally wouldn't hurt, though.

[–] univers3man@piefed.world 3 points 1 hour ago

As always, it's not a price problem, it's a service problem. Since Japanese publishers hate getting Manga outside the country it seems like, it's a self inflicted wound.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 9 points 3 hours ago

It turns out the outage was for them to scrub the evidence. /s