Japanese manga publishers have declared victory over Cloudflare in a long-running copyright infringement liability dispute. Kadokawa, Kodansha, Shueisha and Shogakukan say that Cloudflare's refusal to stop manga piracy sites, meant they were left with no other choice but to take legal action. The Tokyo District Court rendered its decision this morning, finding Cloudflare liable for damages after it failed to sufficiently prevent piracy.

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[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 10 points 1 hour ago

[–] arararagi@ani.social 3 points 1 hour ago

The same country that prohibited console modding, you don't own shit over there.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 49 minutes ago

So any provider is liable too if they don't block piracy sites? Cmon, be real.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago

Lol

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 14 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

What are they going to do about it? Fine cloudflare? What happens when they don't pay the fines, lol? Put out a warrant? Ban them?

Lmao.

[–] __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Or they could potentially ban Cloudflare from having servers/property in Japan. Which considering the economic importance of Japan in the Asian sector, might actually be something Cloudflare would want to avoid.

[–] docus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I’m guessing Japan would also want to avoid that.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Cloudfare is not a monopoly, there are other providers.

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 minutes ago

Do any of them implement blocking for piracy websites in the way that Japan wants?

[–] Lojcs@piefed.social 14 points 4 hours ago

Corporation good when piracy