French Torrent Giant YggTorrent Goes PrivateErnesto Van der Sar, 17 May 09:09 PM Most of the larger pirate sites serve a global audience, but many c
 | Most of the larger pirate sites serve a global audience, but many countries have their local favorites too. In France, that's YggTorrent, Ygg for short. The torrent site is not a typical torrent indexer. Ygg sees itself as a community instead, one with a dedicated tracker, something that's quite rare these days. The site was founded in 2017, to fill the gap left behind when T411 shut down. With millions of monthly visits, the site also made it onto the radar of rightsholders. Hollywood's MPA recently listed YggTorrent in its annual overview of the most "notorious" piracy portals and in France, the site has been under increasing pressure. YggTorrent had several domain names blocked by French Internet providers in response to a court order, and streamlined blocking procedures are in place to pave the way for follow-up blockades. Meanwhile, the site's operators also remain in the crosshairs. Ygg Goes Private Thus far, Ygg has managed to stay online, but its operators have just taken ...Read More | Any content that can be digitized is immediately vulnerable to being pirated. The speed and scale at which that happens is ultimately governed by two key factors; how easily the content can be obtained, copied, and distributed, and how popular the content is with consumers. In this respect, Japanese comics, better known as manga, effortlessly earn top marks across the board. That has led to unprecedented levels of piracy on what appears to be a near perfect consumer product, one for which ongoing demand is relentless. Based in Japan, the leading manga publishers are facing a monumental struggle, and not only due to the scale of the infringement. Enforcement challenges exist at almost every turn, in particular the overseas locations of the largest pirate sites and the apparent reluctance of local authorities to intervene in any meaningful way. What the publishers aren't doing is giving up. Authorized Books of Japan (ABJ), which represents companies including Shueisha, Kadokawa , Koda...Read More |
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