• KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s using a plugin system for various sources, basically it’s just a fancier front end for the source websites. it is not hosting its own (illegal) content.

      • spiderman@ani.social
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        10 months ago

        yeah, they are trying to sue tachi since most of plugins were tachi’s own plugins. idk what the copyrights holders are going to do now since the unofficial plugins are out.

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      10 months ago

      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

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        10 months ago

        But don’t worry, the tachi devs genuinely consider the mass bs dmca spam from kakao to be entirely good faith and legitimate

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          10 months ago

          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.

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            10 months ago

            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

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 months ago

        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…

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      10 months ago

      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

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        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.

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          10 months ago

          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.