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Kakao Entertainment seems to be planning legal action against Tachiyomi (and forks) (nitter.net)
submitted 9 months ago by brie@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org
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We have collected personal details of most individuals involved in [Tachiyomi] and plan to proceed with strong legal and institutional responses against over 100 forked GitHub pages.¹

It sounds like Kakao Entertainment's "Global Anti-Piracy Task Force" (P.Cok) might plan on directly targetting the developers, rather than just the project itself ¹ ². Tachiyomi has in response removed all of their extensions except for selfhosted services ³.

I'm not too sure how much of a legal leg they have to stand on, but it isn't very surprising since Tachiyomi did have a lot of extensions for... dubious sources. It doesn't seem like they plan on adding back extensions that scrape official sources though.

  1. https://nitter.net/kakaoent_pcok/status/1744889648265175197
  2. https://newsroom.kakaoent.com/news/meet-p-cok-kakao-entertainments-global-anti-piracy-task-force/
  3. https://tachiyomi.org/news/2024-01-09-extensions-removal
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[–] vildis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago

I don't understand whst are they accomplishing here? Tachiyomi doesn't host any of the comics themself and making an app to get images off of websites can't be illegal, right?

Are they gonna use the same arguments here that were used for The Pirate Bay?