![]() While this resulted in many thousands of takedowns, it wasn’t until the start of 2020 that Fakku really stepped on the gas.įairly quickly, Fakku was asking for up to 340,000 URLs to be delisted in a week, a number that jumped to 1.1 million in the summer. The company behind Fakku, Fakku LLC, began sending takedown DMCA notices to Google several years ago, demanding that sites publishing its content have their URLs delisted from search results. Fakku Steps-Up Its Targeting of Pirated Content As a poacher turned gamekeeper, Fakku now has to contend with sites doing roughly what it did for nine years, i.e posting other people’s content without permission. The site launched in 2006 and built a decent audience but by 2015, Fakku had gone completely straight after transforming itself into a site offering only licensed content. That was the case with former ‘pirate’ site Fakku, a platform that built its popularity on unlicensed scans and translations (scanlations) of adult manga comics, also known as ‘hentai’. The demise of unlicensed sites often comes about due to legal pressure but for some, it can be possible to move onwards and upwards with a change of business model. Due to their very nature, pirate sites become successful by offering pirated content and after staying online as long as they can, tend to die in the same way. ![]()
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