The anti-piracy group ACE (Creative and Entertainment Alliance), includes some of the world's largest media companies — like Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal and Warner Bros. — has requested subpoenas through US courts against some of the world's largest anime piracy sites in an attempt to curb copyright infringement.
Through Torrent Freak, ACE requested personal information of the operators of several major anime piracy websites. Among the top five sites, even the lowest site — “Animesonlinecc.to” — received 18 million monthly visits, followed by “Kickassanime.mx” (18.33 million), “Goojara. to” (27.33 million), “Anitaku.to” (31.33 million) and “Anitaku.so” (42.33 million). These sites total 137 million monthly visits, with the other smaller sites mentioned increasing this number further.
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Torrent Freak notes that these subpoena requests are “helpful” rather than leading to the arrest of its operators. This is due to pirates providing false information to website domain providers, and is further complicated by the clear pattern observed in the list of popular anime piracy websites. most variable above. Many websites end in “.to,” intended for use for operations in Tonga, “.mx” (Mexico) or “.so” (Somalia). Along with Colombia, Russia and China, these countries are often judged to be lax, slow or even uncooperative in removing sites.
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However, ACE and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPA) have had some recent successes. Recently, they went through the courts in India and successfully obtained a blocking order to prevent users in the country from accessing what was previously the world's largest anime piracy website, “aniwatch.to ”. With India accounting for a large proportion of its users, the site was quickly shut down there — before promptly rebranding to another site, demonstrating the difficulty of solving the problem. copyright infringement issue.
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Source: Torrent Freak