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Pirate Manga Site Goes Offline After Shueisha Contacts Google, ISP to Identify Operators

  • Gigazine and TorrentFreak reported on Thursday that Japanese manga publisher Shueisha has filed a legal application with Google and internet service provider Hurricane Electric to disclose evidence to identify and prosecute another party for copyright infringement.

  • The Mangabank website is currently offline, with a message saying that it is closed due to “server maintenance costs.”

  • Shueisha told ANN that the copyright takedowns were not from Shueisha, but from a third party using the company’s name without permission.

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