Chinese authorities have fined the former operator of Manga Bank, which was one of the largest pirated Japanese manga websites in the world, for illegally providing the content.
Manga pirate sites cost the Japanese manga industry at least 1 trillion yen ($8.74 billion) in 2021, according to a Tokyo-based association working to crack down on the practice.
Four leading manga publishers are set to file a lawsuit against a U.S information technology company in early February, arguing it is breaching their copyrights by distributing data from pirate manga sites, according to sources.