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Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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Cloudflare provided a server for “two massive manga piracy sites that distribute over 4,000 manga titles without permission and rack up 300 million views a month,” the publishers said.

At issue in the lawsuit was whether Cloudflare was the main entity in charge of pirated manga distribution.

Another Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251119_16/

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 31 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I'm confused about how any of this can be cloudflares fault. That's like blaming the electricity supplier because someone is using that electricity to grow weed.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 15 hours ago

Its a Japanese court, you're basically guilty the second you're accused.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

The court ruled that cloudflare made it too easy to register an account and create a domain. And that they didn't do enough to prevent those domains from being used for piracy.

Apparently under Japanese law that's the barrier of proof they needed to cross.