An association of American rights holders has filed an appeal with the Californian courts. She asks the latter for the right to obtain information on the owners of sites specializing in the piracy of Japanese anime, including 9Anime and Allanime. 9Anime is particularly concerned: it accumulates more than 200 million visits per month on average.
You certainly know Zone Download, Wawacity or even Cpasbien. They owe their notoriety to their activity: illegally distribute content, whether movies, series, games, music, etc. Many pirate sites are the subject of legal proceedings in France led in particular by ARCOM and the beneficiaries. The goal is not only to obtain compensation, but above all to block Internet users who wish to access it. This is why these portals regularly change addresses.
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This struggle is obviously not Franco-French. She is global. We regularly discuss the various legal actions taken by Nintendo, whether against the sites that share the games or against the developers of emulators (whether Skyline, whose development is canceled, or Dolphin, whose release on Steam is blocked ) or systems that bypass protections. In the United States, the rights holders of films and series have created an association called Alliance for Creativity and Entertainmentor ACE.
Anime piracy sites attacked in the United States
ACE is regularly the subject of articles about legal action taken against piracy sites. At the end of last week, the association filed an appeal with a Californian court. The goal: to collect information about several sites that pirate Japanese anime. The list includes 9Anime, Allanimous, ninjashare, animefreak or Animates.
To do this, ACE wants to go through Cloudflare. For what ? Because they are all Cloudflare customers. Remember that Cloudflare is a service provider in the distribution and security of content or online applications. It is in particular thanks to Cloudflare that it is difficult to trace the servers where the content is hosted. ACE’s action therefore serves to force Cloudflare to surrender information such as customer name, physical address, IP address, email address, phone number and payment information. The objective: find the owners and sue them to close their sites.
The majority of the sites cited in the lawsuit illegally distribute Japanese anime. And some get a lot of traffic. 9Anime, in particular, generates more than 2.5 billion visits per year, or approximately 200 million visits per month, 30% of which come from the United States. It is ranked among the top 200 most visited websites in the world. Ninjashare generates over 15 million every month. And Allanime, much less important, registers 4.7 million visits per month.
Source: Torrentfreak