
“Through our investigations, we have a good faith belief that a web server for which Digital Ocean, Inc. cloud hosting platform DigitalOcean, and asked the company to disable the associated link. These videos are served through CDN links, presumably to make them harder to take down.įUNimation traced a CDN IP-address, used by KissAnime to stream pirated “One Piece” content, back to U.S. Like many other streaming portals, KissAnime uses Google’s servers to host videos. This is a thorn in the side of FUNimation, which recently obtained a DMCA subpoena to unmask part of the site’s infrastructure. The site is listed among the 250 most visited websites in the United States, making it one of the largest unauthorized streaming platforms in the world. With millions of pageviews per day, KissAnime is the go-to site for many anime fans. legal system, it now appears to have its eyes set on a higher profile target, the popular anime streaming site KissAnime. While the company no longer targets individual users through the U.S. Headquartered in Texas, the company targeted 1337 alleged BitTorrent downloaders of the anime series “One Piece” at a local court a few years ago. The target is associated with the popular anime streaming site KissAnime and uses cloud provider DigitalOcean and Google's server to distribute copyright infringing content.Īmerican anime distributor FUNimation is no stranger to hunting down pirates. Anime distributor FUNimation has obtained a DMCA subpoena from a federal court in Texas, hoping to unmask part of a massive pirate streaming operation.
