Japanese manga publishers have declared victory over Cloudflare in a long-running copyright infringement liability dispute. Kadokawa, Kodansha, Shueisha and Shogakukan say that Cloudflare’s refusal to stop manga piracy sites, meant they were left with no other choice but to take legal action. The Tokyo District Court rendered its decision this morning, finding Cloudflare liable for damages after it failed to sufficiently prevent piracy.
I just find it weird how big dog bullying the small dog becomes justified when we have a vendetta against the small dog.
There are no big dogs or small dogs here, there is tolerant harmless dog being censored by corrupt pack of dogs. If anything, I think the companies responsible are actually going to lose profit by taking down piracy sites because less people are going to know about the products they sell.
My quarrel is with stupid decisions in general.
Are you serious? You’re the one who made the “cloudflare can strongarm the Japanese govt” comment. I can see that you feel strongly about the Japanese media industry but this is the exact cognitive dissonance I’m talking about.
I don’t care what’s good and what’s bad. It’s fucking weird to cheer an international megacorp to ignore the courts of a foreign country.
I care about what is good and what is bad. You should too, makes life better for everyone.
I can’t tell if I can’t articulate what I mean well enough or if you’re just reading it in bad faith so I’ll reiterate for the last time.
I have not made a general statement about caring for good in life. I meant that for the question of whether it should be considered okay for megacorps to ignore court orders, what they’re ignoring is irrelevant. Cheering them to do it for a good cause normalizes it for when they do it for bad, which is the majority of the time.
And it is especially off putting how comments like this are much more common when it’s the courts of a non-western country that produced the bad ruling, as if they are less sovereign than an American company.
This “megacorp” is a telecoms giant that enables regular citizens to host domains across the world. When you pressure them, you’re pressuring the greater community.