The lawsuit alleged that Cloudflare was complicit in copyright infringement by offering its services to manga piracy sites.
Japanese publisher Takeshobo and a male manga creator filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against Cloudflare in January 2020.
The lawsuit will allege that Cloudflare distributes data for manga piracy sites that infringe on the publishers’ copyrights, and it will seek an injunction and about 400 million yen (about US$3.5 million) in compensation for damages.
Cloudflare agreed to stop caching content on its Japanese servers from specified piracy websites if the Tokyo District Court deems that the sites are infringing on copyrights.