Piracy is one of the most contentious issues in the anime industry, and it appears now as though America has become the new central battlefront in the war on pirated anime content. A new transparency report released by Google reveals that Google has been asked to delist over 10 billion URLs from its search results by copyright holders. This number in and of itself is quite remarkable, but things get even more interesting when looking at the anime companies requesting takedowns.
The 5 Biggest Anime Companies Requesting URL Takedowns For Copyright Infringement Are Mostly American America Has Become the Front Line For Combating Anime Piracy ✕ Remove Ads With American companies accounting for four out of the top five anime companies requesting the most takedowns, a clear trend is forming that appears to suggest that piracy is more of a problem in North America than it is in Japan.
Manga & Manhwa Publisher Are Also Taking Action to Combat Piracy Webtoon & Others Are Taking a Stand Against Piracy Close ✕ Remove Ads Though requests from anime companies were fairly substantial, manga and manhwa companies had their own share of URL removal requests. Adult manga publisher FAKKU alone requested 56,762,093 URLs and 5,377 domains be taken down, while Manhwa titan Webtoon asked Google to remove 35,770,580 URLs and 5,373 specific domains.