With Manga Mura now shut down, though, manga publishers are now turning their attention to other pirate sites.
On September 4, Japanese publishers Shueisha (publisher of Weekly Shonen Jump), Kodansha (Shonen Magazine), Shogakkan (Shonen Sunday), and Kadokawa (Shonen Ace) jointly filed a lawsuit against four websites that the publishers are calling “successor sites” to Manga Mura.
Claim that websites are “successors” to infamous Manga Mura manga pirating site.
Japanese publishers protecting their intellectual property online is nothing new, but what is unusual is that all four sites designated in the lawsuit are U.S.-hosted, despite the sites’ interfaces and manga content all being in untranslated Japanese.