In the past 3 years, the manga culture has grown around the world and the readership has grown dramatically every year. Alongside this growing popularity, however, the phenomena of piracy are also increasing consistently, with the same publishing giants who have taken the field to limit the damage.
The latest data recently reported confirmed over 240 million visits per month for the first 10 pirate scan sites alone, all of which translates into a trend of over 300 million euros in monthly losses for the various publishers’ coffers. Shueisha Undoubtedly, it is the editor who personally cracked down on the phenomenon, not without controversy, as the case of copyright compliance on Twitter shows.
However, numerous sources have reported that Shueisha is officially a Google and Hurricane Electric, an Internet traffic service, provides more information on specific addresses that they believe are closely linked to Mangabank, the most popular pirate site, read 81 million times a month before it closed. These leaks are also related to contacts between the publisher himself and the San Francisco law firm to file a motion in the California district court on the matter.
We don’t know how the matter will play out, but we will keep you updated until there is more news on the matter. And you instead what do you think? Let us know what you think about this with a comment below.
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