You need to set up quite a few things first. It’s like suing an app store cause you can install a browser and pin a piracy website to your home menu, giving you one click access to illegal sources.
The app came with a fairly large extension list pre-populated so it’s a little different to a browser. Although a browser with all the piracy links already bookmarked would be rad.
Either way, you can still point the app towards any other repository so it doesn’t really hurt for them to remove the default extensions repository to avoid potential legal problems.
Does this really matter as things stand now? The team behind Tachiyomi said they won’t support website extensions anymore, meaning Kakao got exactly what they wanted
To my understanding, they are still supporting plugins, it’s just they won’t provide the list of apps, you should be able to add your own repository of plugins to download, in fact, there are some going around.
Nope they are only using API’s from the various hosting sources. That’s what makes this request so blatantly fraudulent. For all intents and purposes Tachiyomi is just a Browser specialized for Manga
Well, it’s better to be worried when official copyright holders are going after you and not a bunch of troll bots. Bullying using the legal process and fee is a common tactic. It’s better to legal up and be ready to fight in court than ignore their attacks and get raided by the Fed.
Kakao has nothing even resembling a legitimate claim. They aren’t even fucking American. Tachi should just tell them to shove it straight up their gook asses
But unofficially because we would circumvent the ads of websites.
I believe we actually scrape the pages because Tavhi even mentions to open in webview so we have the session cookies…
Actually insane the extens these fucking idiots go to. Not only do they provide sub-par services, they also ask high amounts of money in return.
What if I didn’t know English, are they going to translate X manhwa in my native language like the groups do? No? Well boo hoo they are actively hurting the popularity of artists instead of helping them.
Seriously, Kakao is very, very nasty company that should be destroyed on this planet. If you live in Korea, you are basically forced to used their product and they suck, riddled with Ads because they’re de facto standard for chat, taxi, etc.
I hate having to use their product.
They’re notorious for overworking their artists. and authors. One of them is Solo Levelling artist died from brain hemorrhage in 2022 and he was working under Kakao.
Nintendo can’t get emulators that actually are for the primary purpose of bypassing their restrictions (even if doing so on legitimately purchased games is perfectly legal) shut down, and this company thinks they can close a fucking reader because it’s possible some people might use it with pirated copies of their IP?🤣
Harassing specific devs may mean those devs don’t push back, but being open source means anyone else hosting it can trivially counter claim bullshit DMCA nonsense.
It doesn’t take any tech literacy. There’s no infringement and precedent out the ass that things far closer to the line are legal. There’s no need for a novel interpretation of anything. The project doesn’t contain their IP.
Is there anything left of Saikou? I’ve been keeping it on Obtainium waiting for a potential rebirth
(Btw, tangentially related, anyone knows if there is any fork named “Saikope”? I’ve had that app installed for a long time and I don’t even remember where I got it anymore)
Kakao nuked the official Tachiyomi Extension repo because they “infringe on their copyright”.
The Extension repo does not and never has offered copyrighted material, it merely facilitated access to sites that do within Tachiyomi. Essentially it was a collection of hyper specific Browsers. The repo is gone, the extensions are not (they are now in a different repo provided by a user). Tachiyomi itself allows for 3rd party repos now and everyone is mad at Kakao for making the App less usable.
Korean company went after a manga reader type app with some sketch DCMA claims. Now they’ve saying they’re going to pursue legal action against 100 forks of the app.
Corpos being fuckwits and going after open source software that can be used to pirate manga/manwha/etc
Each of these sites Tachiyomi uses are compliant with DMCA. Not taking it down on them and instead crippling Tachiyomi is literally the worst action to do.
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Fuck kakao 🖕
https://nitter.cz/kakaoent_pcok/status/1744889648265175197?t=Um-ZE5SVA9ZAeGrXCAjAbA
Afaik tachiy is not hosting any illegal content itself isn’t it?
No but it does give users one click access to the illegal sources, which could be a problem in some legal jurisdictions.
Personally I just use it to read from my personal komga server, but it would be sad to see the app get attacked.
You need to set up quite a few things first. It’s like suing an app store cause you can install a browser and pin a piracy website to your home menu, giving you one click access to illegal sources.
The app came with a fairly large extension list pre-populated so it’s a little different to a browser. Although a browser with all the piracy links already bookmarked would be rad.
Either way, you can still point the app towards any other repository so it doesn’t really hurt for them to remove the default extensions repository to avoid potential legal problems.
Does this really matter as things stand now? The team behind Tachiyomi said they won’t support website extensions anymore, meaning Kakao got exactly what they wanted
To my understanding, they are still supporting plugins, it’s just they won’t provide the list of apps, you should be able to add your own repository of plugins to download, in fact, there are some going around.
That’s awesome, thanks for the heads up
Where did they say that?
it is on their discord announcements
So, nowhere on the web that constitutes a primary source.
Another person replied with a site post. Here’s the link: https://tachiyomi.org/news/2024-01-09-extensions-removal
https://tachiyomi.org/news/2024-01-09-extensions-removal
Nope they are only using API’s from the various hosting sources. That’s what makes this request so blatantly fraudulent. For all intents and purposes Tachiyomi is just a Browser specialized for Manga
But don’t worry, the tachi devs genuinely consider the mass bs dmca spam from kakao to be entirely good faith and legitimate
Well, it’s better to be worried when official copyright holders are going after you and not a bunch of troll bots. Bullying using the legal process and fee is a common tactic. It’s better to legal up and be ready to fight in court than ignore their attacks and get raided by the Fed.
Kakao has nothing even resembling a legitimate claim. They aren’t even fucking American. Tachi should just tell them to shove it straight up their gook asses
But unofficially because we would circumvent the ads of websites.
I believe we actually scrape the pages because Tavhi even mentions to open in webview so we have the session cookies…
Actually insane the extens these fucking idiots go to. Not only do they provide sub-par services, they also ask high amounts of money in return.
What if I didn’t know English, are they going to translate X manhwa in my native language like the groups do? No? Well boo hoo they are actively hurting the popularity of artists instead of helping them.
They even threatened manhwa readers
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it will not be easy because tachiyomi is open source and it is like whack a mole game
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I wonder how much it would cost to send a bag of dicks internationally…
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Let’s really do this, we can really crowdfund dicks And send them to their head office, or houses of their talking heads
Seriously, Kakao is very, very nasty company that should be destroyed on this planet. If you live in Korea, you are basically forced to used their product and they suck, riddled with Ads because they’re de facto standard for chat, taxi, etc. I hate having to use their product.
They’re notorious for overworking their artists. and authors. One of them is Solo Levelling artist died from brain hemorrhage in 2022 and he was working under Kakao.
WTF, didn’t know this. This is horrible
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/01/718_334310.html
And I heard of another author who had a miscarriage because her editor didn’t give her a break.
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We have one but they don’t do anything :(
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I don’t think it will be easy because tachiyomi is open source
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Nintendo can’t get emulators that actually are for the primary purpose of bypassing their restrictions (even if doing so on legitimately purchased games is perfectly legal) shut down, and this company thinks they can close a fucking reader because it’s possible some people might use it with pirated copies of their IP?🤣
They can and they will because the dev team caved.
In regards to the forks though. We’ll see if they get a computer literate judge or not.
Harassing specific devs may mean those devs don’t push back, but being open source means anyone else hosting it can trivially counter claim bullshit DMCA nonsense.
It doesn’t take any tech literacy. There’s no infringement and precedent out the ass that things far closer to the line are legal. There’s no need for a novel interpretation of anything. The project doesn’t contain their IP.
With tech literate I mean how easy they are at convincing what they do is soujd and how evil the devs are.
A sane person would probably call out the bs.
Bunch o’ fuckwits trying to make themselves sound like damned war heroes
They literally said straight up that tachiyomi was a virus in their past post. Cant make this shit up
Saikou already DMCAd last year and Dantotsu is reborn. Now, tachiyomi is next target. it will be like whack a mole game.
Is there anything left of Saikou? I’ve been keeping it on Obtainium waiting for a potential rebirth
(Btw, tangentially related, anyone knows if there is any fork named “Saikope”? I’ve had that app installed for a long time and I don’t even remember where I got it anymore)
Great so now I’m gonna get sued because I forked tachiyomi? Fuck off
Tapas sucks. If you want me to buy your stuff, please at least actually sell it to me on Kindle or Kobo instead of making me use a shitty coin system
Not only Tapas, it’s like every manhwa publisher
from r/manhwa
Anyone have any context here? No idea what I’m looking at
Kakao nuked the official Tachiyomi Extension repo because they “infringe on their copyright”.
The Extension repo does not and never has offered copyrighted material, it merely facilitated access to sites that do within Tachiyomi. Essentially it was a collection of hyper specific Browsers. The repo is gone, the extensions are not (they are now in a different repo provided by a user). Tachiyomi itself allows for 3rd party repos now and everyone is mad at Kakao for making the App less usable.
Korean company went after a manga reader type app with some sketch DCMA claims. Now they’ve saying they’re going to pursue legal action against 100 forks of the app.
Corpos being fuckwits and going after open source software that can be used to pirate manga/manwha/etc
Each of these sites Tachiyomi uses are compliant with DMCA. Not taking it down on them and instead crippling Tachiyomi is literally the worst action to do.
Yeah, there was past incident that Saikou already DMCAd last year and Dantotsu is reborn. Suppose tachiyomi goes this way. that will be rough journey.