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by uyt 1743 days 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...

[2] https://torrentfreak.com/mangamura-operator-handed-three-yea...

[3] https://torrentfreak.com/mangadex-targeted-by-dmca-subpoena-...

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Which 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.