they smoked their own supply is how. The management team ate the legal departments bs about how they are fighting a righteous cause here.

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.

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.

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

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.

They even threatened manhwa readers

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)

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.

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

Not only Tapas, it's like every manhwa publisher

from r/manhwa

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.

it will not be easy because tachiyomi is open source and it is like whack a mole game