It's using a plugin system for various sources, basically it's just a fancier front end for the source websites. it is not hosting its own (illegal) content.

[–] ardi62@lemmy.wtf 26 points 10 months ago

yeah, it is like suing a qbittorrent

[–] spiderman@ani.social 4 points 10 months ago

yeah, they are trying to sue tachi since most of plugins were tachi's own plugins. idk what the copyrights holders are going to do now since the unofficial plugins are out.

[–] neshura@bookwormstory.social 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nope they are only using API's from the various hosting sources. That's what makes this request so blatantly fraudulent. For all intents and purposes Tachiyomi is just a Browser specialized for Manga

[–] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But don't worry, the tachi devs genuinely consider the mass bs dmca spam from kakao to be entirely good faith and legitimate

[–] besbin@lemmy.ml -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, it's better to be worried when official copyright holders are going after you and not a bunch of troll bots. Bullying using the legal process and fee is a common tactic. It's better to legal up and be ready to fight in court than ignore their attacks and get raided by the Fed.

[–] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works -3 points 10 months ago

Kakao has nothing even resembling a legitimate claim. They aren't even fucking American. Tachi should just tell them to shove it straight up their gook asses

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

But unofficially because we would circumvent the ads of websites.
I believe we actually scrape the pages because Tavhi even mentions to open in webview so we have the session cookies...

[–] SkullHex2@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

AAAA

[–] TheFederatedPipe@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To my understanding, they are still supporting plugins, it's just they won't provide the list of apps, you should be able to add your own repository of plugins to download, in fact, there are some going around.

[–] SkullHex2@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

That's awesome, thanks for the heads up

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Where did they say that?

[–] ardi60@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

it is on their discord announcements

[–] nintendiator -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, nowhere on the web that constitutes a primary source.

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago

Another person replied with a site post. Here's the link: https://tachiyomi.org/news/2024-01-09-extensions-removal

[–] SkullHex2@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

AAAA

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No but it does give users one click access to the illegal sources, which could be a problem in some legal jurisdictions.

Personally I just use it to read from my personal komga server, but it would be sad to see the app get attacked.

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You need to set up quite a few things first. It's like suing an app store cause you can install a browser and pin a piracy website to your home menu, giving you one click access to illegal sources.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

The app came with a fairly large extension list pre-populated so it's a little different to a browser. Although a browser with all the piracy links already bookmarked would be rad.

Either way, you can still point the app towards any other repository so it doesn't really hurt for them to remove the default extensions repository to avoid potential legal problems.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

It's like they're speaking a language I don't know