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What they are doing is unfortunately not legal. There were precedents of Cloudflare ratting out manga site operators before which have led to arrests [1] (the p
by uyt 5y ago
What they are doing is unfortunately not legal. There were precedents of Cloudflare ratting out manga site operators before which have led to arrests [1] (the person who ran mangamura got a 3 year sentence and a $650k fine [2]). And at some point they were going after mangadex via the same way too [3].
A lot of their infrastructure design choices should be viewed with OPSEC constraints in mind.
[1] https://torrentfreak.com/japan-pirate-site-traffic-collapsed-50-in-four-months-with-a-little-help-from-cloudflare-191108/ https://torrentfreak.com/japan-pirate-site-traffic-collapsed...
[2] https://torrentfreak.com/mangamura-operator-handed-three-year-prison-sentence-650k-in-fines-210602/ https://torrentfreak.com/mangamura-operator-handed-three-yea...
[3] https://torrentfreak.com/mangadex-targeted-by-dmca-subpoena-now-migrating-servers-200103/ https://torrentfreak.com/mangadex-targeted-by-dmca-subpoena-...
- breakingcups 5y agoWhich is interesting considering they take no issue with sites like KiwiFarms which harass people to literal death, terrorist groups, criminals (carders, phishers, etc.), racists & other forms of hate speech. I guess it all depends on how much money you bring in for them really.