MangaDex might be deplatformed

[JohnSmith13345]

https://reclaimthenet.org/cloudflare-piracy-takedowns/

MG Premium Ltd, a subsidiary of Mindgeek is one of the most prolific senders of DMCA notices on the internet. The company sent notices targeting at least 215 million URLs on Google search results alone.

The company was trying to find out the identity of people who were uploading their copyrighted content on several sites such as Waxtube, Vivud, and Veporns, all of whom used Cloudflare’s services.
For a long time now, Cloudflare said that it merely provides DDoS protection services and didn’t host any content. However, MG Premium says that issuing subpoenas to Cloudflare can help them uncover the real identities of people uploading their proprietary content online.
Cloudflare may or may be able to provide the details sought by MG Premium. Moreover, Cloudflare has a long history of not revealing the identities of pirate websites that used its platform. For instance, The Pirate Bay is one among the several such pirate websites using Cloudflare's services.
The recent shooting in El Paso, Texas has resulted in the termination of the Clouflare’s relationship with 8chan, the platform on which the shooter shared his manifesto. While Cloudflare previously maintained a neutral stance concerning the websites and services it hosted, this recent move may, however, be a game-changer. Several companies such as MG Premium Ltd could now pressure Cloudflare to simply cut ties with pirate websites citing the termination of 8chan’s contract with Cloudflare – meaning that it would be much easier to identify who is behind the websites that the MG Premium considers to be infringers of their content.

This means Cloudflare might be more vulnerable to DMCA requests, and as

Spoiler

this is considered a “pirate” site,

it might be deplatformed.

Notice: Certain features disabled for guests during DDoS mitigation.

An unprotected site will be far more susceptible to DDOS attacks.

TL;DR: oh shizzle and 8chan bad

 

[Kaarme]

Who the heck even reads those DMCA notices when a single obscure company located in Cyprus files notices on over 200 million urls, huh? You'd think it wouldn't be the only company doing such shit, either.

 

[Oeconomist]

Efforts to shutdown MangaDex will wax or wane as expected benefits to rights-holders of pursuing a shutdown rise or fall above or below expected costs. I think that effective shutdown is inevitable within a very few years. I say “effective” because MangaDex could take such measures as relocating to jurisdictions in which copyright enforcement is weak or absent and as separating itself from firms such as Cloudflare (which has weakened its legal insulation in the last day or so), though the result will be to leave MangaDex more vulnerable to extralegal actions such as DDoS attacks.

 

[crazybars]

@JohnSmith13345

That's not a suggestion friend.

https://mangadex.org/thread/159514

 

[blackyawgdom]

Thats a porn company. Porn trolls are getting their ass beat back recently. And theyre going after Cloudflare to get IP details on UPLOADERS to a 3rd party site that happens to use Cloudflare services. (Any competent judge will toss the whole thing)

https://torrentfreak.com/mindgeek-asks-cloudflare-to-unmask-tube-site-uploaders-190803/

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190509/14521042172/strike-3-gets-another-judge-to-remind-it-that-ip-addresses-arent-infringers.shtml

 

[firelight]

So when are we switching to BitMitigate?

 

[JohnSmith13345]

@crazybars How did this end up in the Suggestions subtopic?

 

[JohnSmith13345]

@blackyawgdom Does the now-bolded part matter much?</nonconfrontationalstatement>

 

[Oeconomist]

@JohnSmith13345—

@crazybars How did this end up in the Suggestions subtopic?

Either you put it here, or a surprising software glitch occurred. @crazybars is not positioned to know which.

Some fora are such that administrators can move threads from inappropriate sub-fora to appropriate sub-fora; let's hope that that can and will be done with this thread.

 

[JohnSmith13345]

Ok. I hope the mods can move this to the appropriate subforum, whichever it may be