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Kakao Reveals Anti-Piracy Successes, Legal Action Against Major Manga Sites

TorrentFreak

Most visible on social media, P.CoK claims to recruit webtoon fans as undercover operatives and recently offered rewards for those willing to blow pirates’ cover. P.CoK Anti-Piracy Whitepaper Vol.5 The company’s ‘P.CoK’ anti-piracy unit stands out for engaging pirates head-on.

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Report Urges Cloudflare to Terminate Accounts of Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

Whirepaper: Cloudflare & Pirate Sites The overall tenor of the whitepaper is that when compared to other intermediaries, Cloudflare appears to be linked to a relatively high percentage of torrent sites. These include the Chinese Wechat, which has over a billion users, as well as Russia’s largest social media platform VK.

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Pirate Site Owners Must Surrender, Informants Get Five-Figure Reward

TorrentFreak

More recently, a strategy that has been seen only a handful of times before, has been playing out on social media. Source: P.CoK Anti-Piracy Whitepaper Vol.4 In Kakao’s latest report covering June to December 2023 ( pdf ) , the company said its anti-piracy team had removed over 7.4

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it is unfair to fail to disclose paid promotion/for influencers not to do due diligence on what they promote

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They were launched without a “whitepaper”—a roadmap for growth/success. It is widely understood that Kardashian is paid for many of her social media posts, and therefore, it should not come as a surprise to any reasonable consumer that she was paid for the June Post given it included the “#AD” disclaimer.