The lawsuit alleged that Cloudflare was complicit in copyright infringement by offering its services to manga piracy sites.
Japanese publishers Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Kadokawa formally filed their planned lawsuit against the American Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare on Tuesday.
The lawsuit alleges that Cloudflare distributes data for manga piracy sites that infringe on the publishers’ copyrights, and it seeks an injunction and about 460 million yen (about US$4 million) in compensation for damages.
Japanese publisher Takeshobo and a male manga creator filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against Cloudflare in January 2020.