View attachment 3999871
F, You can no longer login to nhentai.net, but you can login to nhentai.to, the bad thing is that you can't seem to log in with your nhentai.net account.
We can only wait and see if it comes back online at some point.
Really a shame, esp. since the company who is suing them is mostly just responsible for the english translations and publishing of the content they are suing them for. As far as i know its the company behind Jast*USA and one other US company. They sued in US court. The reason it all got deleted is that the company suing them did not just want them to stop and pay damages but ALSO wanted to see their entire file list/registry and they wanted the hands to the actual domain (nhentai.net) to be handed over. Seems to me that they very much wanted to profit from the nhentai.net popularity by taking over the domain as a result of that suit and get themselves more "customers". The funny thing is, I doubt anyone going on nhentai would have ever payed them a cent. 90% of them are pirates and there is a reason they are. Either bc they dont want to pay, cant pay (not enough money) or because the stuff isnt available in their country. Plus, them taking over would probably get them in more legal trouble. They are a US company, and as such they would be subject to US law. If they took over nhentai they would need to censor the shit out of the site.
To be fair. nhentai people did apparently (allegedly) not comply with their demands of deleting the content they wanted deleted. Not even a bit. Like in the suit they said that 100% of the content they wanted deleted remained up.
I agree with most people here saying that it will not have a huge effect since dozens of sites are in place that will catch all the people who bother to look for new sources. It will ofc reduce doujin piracy for a year or two because not everybody has the time or know-how to find a new trustworthy site right away, but sooner or later there will be another site like it, it will get bigger, and at some point there will be another suit, the site will shut down and it will start again. I'm always just feeling sorry for the people behind these sites, cause they will probably face high financial penalties (that they potentially can not pay) and prison time.
That's what happened back in the day when the owner of the Pirate Bay was on the radar of the US. He was from Sweden and over there the copyright law did not cover the things he did, so when US companies threatened legal action he told them to sodomize themselves in an email. After a few years though the US managed to get Swedens government to change the law accordingly. At that point the dude was already in another country though. Cambodia. The issue is that Sweden's government literally payed them 50+ million dollars in "development help" in exchange for them hading him over to Sweden.
He ended up in prison for a few years. I think at this point he should be a free man again. Cause thats been 20 years ago.
