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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Perhaps Mihon will tell Kakao to fuck off. But if Mihon doesn't, someone else will. [Plus I wanted an excuse to post a cute kitten .gif]

There’s no legal basis to take it down.

Even when there's no legal basis, a corporation is better prepared to potentially lose a legal battle than a bunch of amateurs are to potentially win it. It's a form of corporate trolling - "both of us know that you'd win if you fought, but also that you won't fight".

That works fine if you're a corporation dealing with one group that dares to stand between you and the money. But it fails if used over and over, as eventually one group will say "you want a bloody legal battle mate? We're focking getting one."

[–] Xanvial@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Quick scanning of the repo, Mihon didn't host or even mention the extension to read external source. So it basically just an application platform. If Kodi still survive, I think this will too.

The mistake of tachiyomi is putting the extension to read piracy website together with the base application

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tachiyomi is a fancy web browser. This is like suing Google because chrome can be used to access pirated content.

Intent matters. Tachiyomi is designed to read manga.