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.
There are no big dogs or small dogs here, there is tolerant harmless dog being censored by corrupt pack of dogs. If anything, I think the companies responsible are actually going to lose profit by taking down piracy sites because less people are going to know about the products they sell.
My quarrel is with stupid decisions in general.
Are you serious? You’re the one who made the “cloudflare can strongarm the Japanese govt” comment. I can see that you feel strongly about the Japanese media industry but this is the exact cognitive dissonance I’m talking about.
I don’t care what’s good and what’s bad. It’s fucking weird to cheer an international megacorp to ignore the courts of a foreign country.