Kakao Entertainment shuts down major piracy site

Kakao Entertainment has shut down Reaper Scans, one of the biggest English-language webtoon and web novel piracy sites, the company said Wednesday. The company’s P.CoK, a team dedicated to countering piracy, has successfully led the site to halt operation last Friday, using its special technology to identify the proprietary operator. Reaper Scans is one of the biggest sites that illegally distributed Korean webtoons and web novels for six years, garnering an average of 10 million user visits per month. Its Discord channel had approximately 95,000 subscribers. It has been known to operate with its own professional groups for high-quality, unauthorized translations, resulting in a large number of frequent users and secondary distribution of its illegally translated content. The piracy site regularly updated content and generated revenue through opening sponsorship channels and running advertisements. At one point, it even charged users to view its content. Through investigations and database comparisons since 2022, P.CoK recently succeeded in identifying three operators in the United StatWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times