https://coda-cj.jp/news/2636/https://x.com/denfaminicogame/status/2016691885025481198>On November 19, 2025, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau of China conducted a search of the home of a man living in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on suspicion of copyright infringement. He was operating the world's largest pirated website, BATO.TO (60 sites, including xbato.com, bato.to, and mangapark.io), distributing Japanese manga translated into over 50 languages, including English, without the permission of the rights holders. The man was detained (interrogated in custody) and has since been released on bail. However, he admitted to operating all of these sites and is expected to be indicted. >This case was brought to light by the request of Japanese publishers (KADOKAWA Corporation, Kodansha Co., Ltd., Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Co., Ltd., and Square Enix Co., Ltd.), with the CODA Beijing Office filing a criminal complaint with the Public Security Bureau on September 25, 2025, on their behalf. Furthermore, as part of its international collaboration aimed at strengthening the effectiveness of anti-infringement measures, CODA also sought cooperation from China Literature Limited, a subsidiary of Tencent, a major Chinese IT company, which operates one of China's largest online book platforms. China Literature Limited confirmed that Chinese manga in which it holds rights were being distributed without permission on BATO.TO, and worked with CODA to file a criminal complaint with the Public Security Bureau. This joint Japan-China effort, which resulted in a criminal prosecution, is an important achievement in promoting international intellectual property protection.tl;dr not the gooks
The Koreans were innocent. Apologize.
>>285651999Japan didn't. You think anon will?
>>285651999Didn't Kakao try to claim it as their doing? Stolen valor.
>>285651977Money.
>>285651977it was CODA who came knocking and they said to Tencent "look they're hosting your shit too, you really should do something about this"
Reddit grifters blaming Manwha proven wrong. solo leveling wins again
I bet all those performative racists feel silly it was actually their precious japanese company
>>285652229>>285652207i don't get it. why were retarded newfags saying japs aren't copyright freaks?
>>285652268Can you not read above a third grade level? Try reading the OP again but slower.
>>285652251It was a targeted attack on Manwha and Korea. Just some weird Japanese superiorityfags attacking them for no reason and it spread so people are hating on Manwha. Hopefully now the record has been put straight they'll stop, I'm not expecting them to admit they were wrong or apologize, but at the very least the blind hate needs to stop
You people still killed Comick and Tachiyomi. This just reinforced that Chinks and Gooks are both disaster in the making
>>285652268It’s just how operate. Government related companies especially don’t give a fuck >China Literature Limited confirmed that Chinese manga(manhua) in which it holds rights were being distributed without permission on BATO.TO,You see they really really couldn’t give a shit about the Japanese claims and so on especially considering the current relations between the two countries. But when Chinese interests are involved then it’s different.>>285652149kek pretty much
>>285652354they operate*
>>285652229What's wrong with being racist on Koreans anyway? People insult Japan a d Westerners all the time and nobody complain
>>285652370They have a centuries old inferiority complex and are very sensitive to any negativity.
>Gooks playing victimOh
>>285652323>Japanese superiorityfags back in the days we called them w4panese until moot the faggot turned on a word filter to turn it into w3eaboo.
>>285652389>>285652354go back, newfag.
After seeing how Koreans are on the internet and real life, they deserve to be hated and ridiculed. Also i bought Manhwa and a DVD of Winter Sonata 17 years ago which means that i probably have more contribution towards their industry than any Korean defenders which is why I never have any remorse in insulting Koreans
>>285652424Oldfags hate Koreans back then and I'm the one who defended them. i fucking regret it
>>285652251There were sites that got nuked by the Koreans. Comick, as an example. Mangadex got into trouble with the Koreans too. But really it is because for a long time Jap companies were not particularly litigious about Western piracy.Recently, Korean webtoons have boomed in popularity and there is a large piracy market for them.A change then happened where Japanese companies started to be more litigious and aggressive at policing piracy. These were considered to be correlated.
>>285652323People already hate Manhwa and Koreans even without any smear campaign. You brought it upon yourself with the playing victim and relentless shilling of your modern garbages when this place saw the peak and downfall of quality in Koreans
>>285652424Are you simply incapable of reading or is this aversion to reality?
>Literally Gook crying about being victimized: The threadJust like in real life
>>285652481you're not being called a newfag for hating/liking korea, my youngling.
>>285652555Can you elaborate about being in damage control and not being able to read?>China Literature Limited confirmed that Chinese manga(manhua) in which it holds rights were being distributed without permission on BATO.TO,
>>285652499So basically just remove Manhwa and Manhua? Got it
Manwha/Manhua and DMCA on that thang
>>285652598Yes yes. Just remove them that’s all they have to do. Finally they are realizing this.
>>285652596how about you kill yourself instead of sperging out at others due to your inability to read?
>>285652614>>285652598sounds like cope and excuse
>>285652622>>285652632>China Literature Limited confirmed that Chinese manga(manhua) in which it holds rights were being distributed without permission on BATO.TORead anon read
>Gook killed Tachiyomi and Comick>Chink killed Bato.toThey're both menace and only bring us pain despite us praising their best shit
>>285652642>>285652648>be retarded newfag (You)>can't read>make up shit in your head that no one else said and sperg out about it because you're retarded kek every time with you subhumans.
>>285652642I’ve never seen this much damage control. Sasuga
hosters should just start hosting in Africa or Russia
I don't remember other countries shills demanding apology when someone insult their favourite country.
>>285651910Holy fuck, they're actually going to send him to prison. So Bato didn't go down just because of a DMCA like other sites. I never would've expected the admin to be a chink. How did they find him? Would good opsec even make a difference here?>>285652696This one isn't a hosting issue. It wouldn't have mattered where he hosted it. He lives in China. They found him and arrested him.
So what kind of slur that we should use for Koreans since apparently they demand us to stop calling them Gook? Plastic Bugmen?
I feel like OP is a Korean
>>285651910does he really live in china?does he really only have chinese citizenship?because he used discord and got paid by advertisers.are you telling me foreigners can send money to china? that china isn't economically besieged by the west? that it was all chink propaganda about the west and china being enemies? wew.
>>285652774Guk
>>285652832How about Gewks?
>>285652774>dog shit english>post is tiny but so schizo there's lots to unpackretarded newfag moment.
>>285651977It literally says the original copyright complaint was brought by the Japanese publishers.
>>285652832Gawkers
>>285652774Grook
>newfag deluded "her"self into thinking jap and chink are slurs and that the synonym for mongoloids (gook) is a slur
>>285651910Has anything like this happened before? This feels like a turning point, and not a good one.
I can't believe i live long enough to see a Korean crying on 4chan
>>2856529044chan's newfags are such peak subhumans. they screech at you if you use ad block.
>>285652913Unironically yes, when Baka-Tsuki got DMCA nuked by Kadokawa and Shueisha back in 2015 there was a simultaneous operation on the Chinese equivalent of Baka-Tsuki where the website operators were arrested by Chinese police.
>>285652888Japan and China are in a diplomatic spat right now and tolerating piracy of Japanese stuff would be a nice lever for them to pullbut hosting Chinese stuff too means there's domestic interest in getting it taken down. If it stuck to manga, would China's government care?
I never expected China to comply with Japanese takedown requests.
>>285652948why do you newfags spam the enter key for no reason?
>>285652888Ah so you’re sad the topic suddenly moved to removing gookshit and chinkshit but the facts speak for themselves. Japanese publishers go after literally anyone they can. But they don’t always succeed. In this case by utilizing chink manhua as an excuse they were able to succeed. That’s all there is to it and there’s lesson to be learned there as well.Don’t host gookshit and chinkshit simple as and this should apply to /a/ as well but sadly they allow it of course.
>>285652323>Ruin their music industry and infected K-Poop to the world>Turned Manhwa into Webtoons>Reboot Shin Angyo Onshi into a Webtoon that change the story and even fucked up the ending and making it the de facto canon version, ensuring that we will never see the original version animated>Ruined Project Moon after only 4 years of good run and now we have to endure 10 years of limbus>Being far more insufferable than their neighbors on the internet>K-Drama is getting shittier each days with the involvement of NetflixTell me why I should not hate Korea at this day and age?
So now China isn't safe for piracy, is Vietnam next?
So many reddit spacing here
>>285653000>spoilerwhat the fuck?
>>285652973they were either retarded enough to get brainwashed into believing in the phonepost meme that reddit invented paragraphs aka "reddit spacing", or they're underage retards who grew up communicating mostly on discord or on a smartphone, or they think the newfags doing it are oldfags.>>285652983>japs are whitehow do you retards even know how to breathe?
>>285652983>>285652948Considering >>285652944 yes, they would care if Kadokawa's Chinese branch were to grease the right palms.
Since when the fuck did China give a shit about copyright
What's with the gook calling everyone newfag? Does he really believe any oldfag likes garbage like gook leveling?
>>285653000I like their food
are 4chan's newfags the easiest to trigger? simply not believing in their schizo babble is enough to get them to mobilize and cry to trannies for help.
>be like me, a schizo, by believing japs are white and only koreans are slanted aka gook, else it means you like koreanswhat did the retarded newfag mean by this
>(60 sites, including xbato.com, bato.to, and mangapark.io)Wtf it was chinese all this time?
>>285653040Basically instead of just dying after Munsu's corpse scared him and Sando cut him, Aji Tae turned into some kind of Demonic form where Sando and Marlene (Yes, that one Munsu's former student) has to fight him, making Munsu's death scene kind of redundant. The funny (or sad) thing is They don't even show the fight scene between Aji Tae and Sando/Marlene. Demon Aji Tae just lie on the floor dead in the next chapter
>>285653195Oh, and it's also a part of shared universe with the author's other works including some crappy webtoons
>>285651910>a criminal complaint with the Public Security BureauWhat does some guy hosting pirated Japanese manga have to do with public security
>>285652323Why do you care about people hating gookshit or any form of bootleg manga?
>>285651999>>285651910So chink kill batoto and gook kill mangadex, comick?
>Koreans are silenced for Several minutes after someone posted the ending of Shin Angyo Onshi rebootI guess facing the consequences of your own mistake is scary
>>285651910>This case was brought to light by the request of Japanese publishers (KADOKAWA Corporation, Kodansha Co., Ltd., Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Co., Ltd., and Square Enix Co., Ltd.), with the CODA Beijing Office filing a criminal complaint with the Public Security Bureau on September 25, 2025, on their behalfWow, so people were pulling shit out of their ass when they said that Kakao manhwa is the only reason that these sites keep getting nuked? How can people do that, go on the Internet and tell lies?
>>285653610Turns out that Chinks are on the act too
>>285652499>Recently, Korean webtoons have boomed in popularity and there is a large piracy market for them.kek
>>285653042Where did he say that Japs are white?
>>285651910Everyone's fussing over who's to blame for what, I'm just sitting here wondering what the fuck we're going to do.
>>285651910Here's the official English version of CODA's press release with more details.https://coda-cj.jp/en/news/830/>This case originated from concerns raised about BATO.TO at the Five-Publisher Manga Piracy Countermeasures Meeting held in July 2024.(3) In response, CODA designated the site as a target under its Cross-Border Enforcement Project (CBEP) and initiated countermeasures. >Through collaboration with cybersecurity experts, including ethical hackers, CODA conducted open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigations. Upon discovering that Chinese services were being used, CODA worked with a Chinese investigative firm to identify the operator, leading to the filing of a criminal complaint with the China’s public security bureau. >CODA has also confirmed that more than 1,000 titles from the works of KADOKAWA, KODANSHA, SHUEISHA, SHOGAKUKAN and SQUARE ENIX—publishers that requested criminal prosecution—were available for viewing on BATO.TO.>CODA views this criminal investigation as a groundbreaking case that will serve as an effective deterrent against scanlation and other unauthorized translated manga sites. In addition, CODA has received a report from NTT Solmare Corporation that daily sales on its e-book store “MangaPlaza,” which targets the U.S. market, approximately doubled immediately following the closure of BATO.TO.>In response to the site closures, Takero Goto, Representative Director of CODA, commented: “The closure of the world’s largest manga piracy site through criminal enforcement is highly significant for cross-border anti-piracy efforts. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Chinese authorities, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and all others involved who devoted their efforts to this case.”>Note that this activity was part of a project commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
You Gook and Chink are both faggots, get out of this board if you unironically cry about racism or getting bullied
>>285653689Removing Gookshit and Chinkshit will be a good start
>>285653745I don't even get the point of this nonsense. What, do you think the Japanese DON'T care about piracy? Be realistic.
>>285653759Japs are kind of incompetent in fighting against piracy
>"WAAAH, WAAAH, I AM THE VICTIM WAAAH"
>>285653774And surely that will never change, right?
>>285653774Apparently not, since they just killed nuBatoto a few months after crippling Mangadex.
>>285653759More companies involved will mean it's a more likely target, and having both types will mean more people going there.
>>285653793Well you people always say that The Japs are stuck in their old ways
I don't remember someone crying about racism or demanding apology when you insult The Japs, Westerners, Jeets, African or even South East Asian
>>285653825https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-01-08/japan-coda-companies-from-12-other-countries-to-form-international-anti-piracy-organization-/.181215CODA was only founded in 2022.
>>285653852I'm not crying racism or demanding apology, I'm saying stop being retarded and claiming sites will be safe if you just purge all the gookshit because that's setting yourself up for disappointment when Kadokawa still sends the police knocking.
>>285653870>I'm not crying racism or demanding apologyJust like in the beginning of the thread, also there is nothing wrong with trying to experiment by removing Gookshit for once. Maybe the site will survive for like 1-2 years
>>285653604It turned out bato was chink this whole time
>>285652609This wasn't a DMCA. The Chinese government arrested him.
>>285653984At the request of the Japanese government at that.>In response to the site closures, Takero Goto, Representative Director of CODA, commented: “The closure of the world’s largest manga piracy site through criminal enforcement is highly significant for cross-border anti-piracy efforts. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Chinese authorities, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and all others involved who devoted their efforts to this case.” >Note that this activity was part of a project commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.>CODA (Content Overseas Distribution Association) was established in 2002 at the call of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Agency for Cultural Affairs to promote the overseas development of Japanese content and take anti-piracy measures.
>>285653825No, I don't. If anything, the ones stuck in the old ways are us. How's that adage about piracy sites working out? How are those hydra heads growing? We're losing, anons. That's not being a fearmonger or a doomer, that's being realistic.>>285653853>They'll never get the results they want with this new organization. It's a waste of time and money. Not to mention there will be protests and backlash against it. These companies will never learn.>So, this is like, how many times "they" have tried this? Pardon my cynicism, but I've seen 'em come and I've seen 'em go. I am not too concerned. >Another day at the whac-a-mole arcade. Comments that aged like the finest of wines. And at the rate we're going it's only going to get finer. >>285653870Exactly.
>>285654018And all those fags crying about region blocks that don't actually exist. But it's easier to make excuses than actually trying a service.
>>285654173There are some region blocks, but not many. One I've seen requires a phone number too.
there's something fishy about this why would the Chinese listen to the Japanese
>>285654341Why would they not?
>>285654363they speak different languages
manga reading sites are silly to begin withyou're supposed to silently distribute downloads and read offline like god intendedmanga reading sites are like hanging a big THIEVES' GUILD sign over a building and then doing a surprised pikachu face when authorities come knocking
>>285654454Some do more than exist, they try to promote themselves.
>>285653745But I like those too.
>>285651910So basically if he didn't let chinkshit in the Chinese companies wouldn't have cooperated with the nips
