Webtoon files subpoena to expose personal details of alleged copyright infringers

Webtoon Entertainment has established itself as one of the prime hosting platforms for short digital comics.

Its first quarterly earnings report on August 8 wasn’t well received.

Instead of significant growth, revenues were more or less flat compared to a year ago .

Piracy has always been a challenge for the company, which sends out millions of DMCA takedown notices every month in an effort to contain the problem.

Last year , the company targeted 360 pirate sites through a similar subpoena, which resulted in the shutdown of several sites.

This is the result of Naver Webtoon’s action to issue a Subpoena ’ through a U.S. court, the first in the webtoon industry,” the company wrote in November .

A copy of the subpoena application, as well as some key exhibits, is available here.

A full list of all included domains, minus some duplicates, is included below.

Spy-manga.com is teamxnovel.com teamx novel.net tenshi.id thebreakermanhwa.com thegodofhighschool.online thetowerofgod.com thunderscans.com.com toomtam-mangas.com.

Weimangacom weakherochapters.com windbreakermanga.