Thoughts?
Source from @mangamogurare on twitter
Webtoon Publisher Kakao revealed that they are currently preparing legal action against three only partially named big piracy sites/groups:
Website "M": Largest comic piracy website in the world. They identified operators and plan to sue via a local law firm. However last year they decided it would be more effective to collaborate with japanese publishers in this case. This is the first time for such a joint action between companies from these two countries.
Scanlation Group ***Scans: One of the 5 biggest english piracy scanlation groups in the world. The group has been bought by a overseas comic company according to Kakao investigations and they are planning legal actions against the company owning the group and the group itself.
Webtoon Piracy Site: ***manhua: Big chinese webtoon piracy site focused on chinese readers. Kakao will work together with local chinese platforms to take legal actions with chinese courts against the operators.
I completely understand about Korean manhwa ones. But Chinese and Japanese?? They don't get adapted unless it's smut. Do they really want their work not known at all? Recently a Japanese mangaka complained about the unofficial translation so it got dropped. But there is no official scanlation for it either. This is an impossible situation
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22 08,2024
