A massive web novel piracy site has been shut down following its owner’s arrest in an operation involving both South Korea and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).The Korean newspaper Hankyung reported that the country’s largest web novel piracy distributor was shut down on Dec. 19, 2023. The website owner’s house was raided and materials were seized, with approximately 27,000 web novels hosted illegally. The operation was a joint effort between the American DHS and the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Copyright Commission. It’s estimated that the unnamed site had approximately 21.7 million users this year and earned around $260,000 through offering advertisements.This arrest follows the report by KBS earlier this month revealing that popular publisher Kakao Entertainment had identified the owners behind the world’s biggest manga and webtoon piracy site. This site, dubbed ‘M,’ was predicted to be costing the industry about $2.2 billion a month. With both examples of mass piracy being cracked down on in a couple of weeks, it appears that South Korea is serious about protecting one of the fastest-growing art mediums in the world.
A massive web novel piracy site has been shut down following its owner’s arrest in an operation involving both South Korea and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The Korean newspaper Hankyung reported that the country’s largest web novel piracy distributor was shut down on Dec. 19, 2023. The website owner’s house was raided and materials were seized, with approximately 27,000 web novels hosted illegally. The operation was a joint effort between the American DHS and the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Copyright Commission. It’s estimated that the unnamed site had approximately 21.7 million users this year and earned around $260,000 through offering advertisements.
This arrest follows the report by KBS earlier this month revealing that popular publisher Kakao Entertainment had identified the owners behind the world’s biggest manga and webtoon piracy site. This site, dubbed ‘M,’ was predicted to be costing the industry about $2.2 billion a month. With both examples of mass piracy being cracked down on in a couple of weeks, it appears that South Korea is serious about protecting one of the fastest-growing art mediums in the world.
#Major #Web #Piracy #Site #Shut #Operator #Arrest
Note:- (Not all news on the site expresses the point of view of the site, but we transmit this news automatically and translate it through programmatic technology on the site and not from a human editor. The content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.))
