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Manga Piracy Giant Bato Goes Offline After China Probe
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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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I wonder if manga will ever become something torrented frequently enough to have a specialised 'e-book torrent reader' that has legal plausible deniability
Miru did this (despite the author being off the rails) and it worked really well
I think it's probably read enough to make it successful already and the only component missing is someone actually doing it and taking on the legal risks. Manga market is a $20b industry compared to books which are $130bn (not including manga). And that's not considering the fact that a larger portion of the global manga audience is pirating rather than buying.