Most of these point to pirated content, but TorrentFreak was listed among these sites as well. Unfortunately, not all of these are correct.Ī few days ago the company sent a DMCA notice to Google asking it to remove 1,110 URLs from its search results.
Google alone has received over 45 million takedown requests from the company since early this year. These two domains have since disappeared.Īt the same time, the publisher is sending millions of takedown notices to various online platforms. Over the past few months, Fakku has repeatedly gone to court trying to unmask the operators of sites such as Hentai.cafe and HentaiNexus. This meant that the publisher started to send takedown notices to pirate sites, and more. After all, you don’t want other people to profit from ‘your’ content. This new role in the manga ecosystem also meant that Fakku became interested in protecting its rights. By the end of 2015, it had completed the transformation from a ‘pirate site’ into a licensed publisher, which is a laudable achievement. That worked well as the platform kept growing.Īs the years passed things got more serious and Fakku slowly but steadily signed deals with rightsholders. It simply wanted to expand the manga niche to a broader audience by aggregating translations. The site’s founder, Jacob Grady, studied computer science in Massachusetts at the time and used student loans to pay the server bills of a site that was essentially a pirate operation.įakku never sought trouble with rightsholders though. When Fakku launched 15 years ago, it was an aggregator for unlicensed scanlations of adult manga, also known as hentai.
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