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. ……

Four major publishing firms — Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan and Kadokawa — accused Cloudflare of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles. ……

  • univers3man@piefed.worldEnglish
    21·
    7 days 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.

    • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.inEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I have a big physical manga collection, but I can’t imagine paying a single cent to access manga digitally, let alone a subscription. For each one on my collection, I’ve already pirated digitally to read them. But I’d rather keep a permanent physical copy than being allowed to read it each month for a price.