Operator of Unlawful Webtoon Platform Arrested

The Copyright Crime Forensic Investigation Team below Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) conducted a elephantine-scale investigation into Korea’s most practical likely copyright-infringing online page, “Nunu TV,” besides to its illegal sister internet sites “TVWiki” and “OKTOON,” and published on December 20 the alleged operator of the internet sites used to be arrested in November.

OKTOON is identified for illegally importing webtoons and for making a profit from them. The other two internet sites are illegal streaming products and services.

MCST seized the domains of Nunu TV, TVWiki, and OKTOON, redirecting secure entry to routes to a “Domain Seizure Glimpse” page, successfully battling the transmission or distribution of unauthorized copied works.

The arrest used to be the slay end result of shut cooperation among the MCST, the Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office, the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, the National Intelligence Service, the U.S. Hometown Security Investigations Korea Office, the World Prison Police Group (INTERPOL), and other in but any other country investigative agencies.

The operator of OKTOON used a in particular meticulous arrangement by collecting individual accounts from professional home webtoon platforms from unspecified persons after which illegally copying and posting the webtoon squawk.

MCST Copyright Bureau Director Jeong Hyang-mi acknowledged, “The apprehension of the OKTOON operator is the greatest achievement since establishing the ‘K-Content Illegal Distribution Eradication Plan’ and launching the Copyright Crime Forensic Investigation Team. It also demonstrates that illegal website operators who threaten the rights of domestic creators can no longer evade our investigative network.”

Earlier this year, Japan’s Vow material In but any other country Distribution Association (CODA) collaborated with the Copyright In but any other country promotion Association (COA) of South Korea to file criminal complaints in opposition to a number of piracy internet sites in Brazil. Collectively the organizations centered eight internet sites: three sites were exposed by a CODA member firm and 5 internet sites were exposed that had pirated webtoons.

Sources: MSCT Official Online page