A manga publisher asks Google and Apple to remove apps that allow people to read their titles illegally. Faced with the apparent refusal, he now wants the names and addresses of the developers of these apps.
Google and Apple regularly remove apps from their store. Most of the time, these are dangerous apps infected with malware. Another reason is that some allow access to paid content for free, which of course is illegal. We think of movies and seriesbut also to books and to manga. Through a law firm, manga publisher Kadokawa asked the two Tech giants the removal of 5 pirate applications offering scans of its titles.
The story could end there since the request is legitimate and that there can be no doubt about the illegality of the incriminated apps. Except that strangely, neither Google nor Apple is moving and the reading platforms remain downloadable from the Stores. We don’t know if it’s a refusal (and even less why if it is) or simply that the two firms didn’t react quickly enough to the taste of Kadokawa, who is moving up a gear. .
Google and Apple leave manga hacking apps on their Store, this publisher wants names
The editor entered directly the american justice by filling out a file DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) with the California Court. It demands to get more or less all personal information of the developers in charge of pirate applications: surname, first name, postal address, email address (plus recovery email addresses if applicable), telephone number, IP address, card or bank account number, etc.
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The public data present on the pages of the apps obviously does not reveal any personal elements. Contact emails are of the type [email protected] and possible associated websites link to anonymous hacker platforms as well. Kadokawa seems determined to win the case, but one can well imagine that in the meantime, Google and Apple simply accede to their initial request.
Source: TorrentFreak