The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered Cloudflare to pay $3.2 million to major Japanese publishers after the U.S. firm was accused of hosting servers for manga piracy sites. ……
Four major publishing firms — Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan and Kadokawa — accused Cloudflare of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles. ……
Making manga more accessible legally wouldn’t hurt, though.
As always, it’s not a price problem, it’s a service problem. Since Japanese publishers hate getting Manga outside the country it seems like, it’s a self inflicted wound.
Indeed. This this truly a WTF issue. And it gets even worse when you are not from US, like EU.
I have a big physical manga collection, but I can’t imagine paying a single cent to access manga digitally, let alone a subscription. For each one on my collection, I’ve already pirated digitally to read them. But I’d rather keep a permanent physical copy than being allowed to read it each month for a price.