![]() Fakku Wants To Identify The Operator of Hentai.cafe “Please act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the infringing material or items,” the letter reads, adding the URL where the content can be found.Ĭhecking out the URL in question reveals that the content remains up, suggesting that hentai.cafe failed to take action in response to the notice. The application reveals that on December 1, 2020, Eric Green of anti-piracy company Remove Your Media wrote to hentai.cafe demanding that the site take down a copy of Comic X-Eros #66, ‘Bullied Revenge Hypnosis #5’. On Wednesday, Fakku’s legal representative filed a request for a DMCA subpoena at a court in the Eastern District of Michigan. ![]() Fakku Takedown Notice Ignored By Hentai.cafe However, it’s the 10th most-targeted domain on the list – hentai.cafe – that now finds itself in Fakku’s legal crosshairs. This put sites including, , and under considerable pressure, with the former being subjected to more than 8 million DMCA notices, something that could cause it to be downranked by Google. At the start of this year, Fakku went into overdrive and in the week starting January 4, 2021, the company asked for around 4 million URLs to be delisted, a figure repeated just a couple of weeks later. While this resulted in many thousands of takedowns, it wasn’t until the start of 2020 that Fakku really stepped on the gas.įairly quickly, Fakku was asking for up to 340,000 URLs to be delisted in a week, a number that jumped to 1.1 million in the summer. The company behind Fakku, Fakku LLC, began sending takedown DMCA notices to Google several years ago, demanding that sites publishing its content have their URLs delisted from search results. Fakku Steps-Up Its Targeting of Pirated Content As a poacher turned gamekeeper, Fakku now has to contend with sites doing roughly what it did for nine years, i.e posting other people’s content without permission. ![]() The site launched in 2006 and built a decent audience but by 2015, Fakku had gone completely straight after transforming itself into a site offering only licensed content. That was the case with former ‘pirate’ site Fakku, a platform that built its popularity on unlicensed scans and translations (scanlations) of adult manga comics, also known as ‘hentai’. The demise of unlicensed sites often comes about due to legal pressure but for some, it can be possible to move onwards and upwards with a change of business model. Due to their very nature, pirate sites become successful by offering pirated content and after staying online as long as they can, tend to die in the same way. ![]()
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