One of the biggest manga piracy networks has been shut down

Japan's anti-piracy conjugation says that 1 of the world's largest manga piracy networks has been unopen down pursuing a coordinated probe betwixt Japanese publishers and Chinese authorities. The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) announced the apprehension of an idiosyncratic connected suspicion of copyright infringement connected November 19th, who "has admitted to operating" Bato.to and astir 60 related sites, specified arsenic xbato.com and mangapark.io.

Bato.to launched successful 2014, increasing to beryllium 1 of the astir recognizable online platforms for "scanalation" - successful which manga, manhwa, and different comics are scanned, edited with translated text, …

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