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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/primalmaximus on 2024-09-04 16:00:00+00:00.
I know that on the Anime/Manga side of things it's mostly due to Kakao and Naver from South Korea who are leading the charge because the way they handle western, or at least English, distribution of series is so bad that you can get better quality releases on sketchy piracy sites. And the pirated scanlations are frequently several chapters ahead of the official western releases. And, in the case of series that are released on the English version of Webtoon, the scanlations are also uncensored.
But what about on the Western/US side of things? Is there a specific heavyweight, aside from the organization ACE, that's throwing their weight around?
I know ACE is throwing their weight around, but they're also a cooperative organization of several western media companies and that's why they have so much weight to put on things. I'm wondering if there's an individual western company, like Disney, that's got the clout to pull of all these takedowns.