How do hentai websites deal with copyright claims?

I'm running a hentai website for a month now. There are full episodes just like you'd see on hanime and other popular hentai websites. Never got any copyright claims, though the traffic itself is almost zero anyway.

I wonder how do the popular websites dodge the copyright claims from the copyright holders? Or the Asian studios simply doesn't care about the western market in this regard?

I don't know what this hentai thing is , but I would assume they use DMCA ignored offshore hosting - same as any other streaming website.

Black Hat Wolfie said:

I don't know what this hentai thing is , but I would assume they use DMCA ignored offshore hosting - same as any other streaming website.

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Heh, thanks for the reply. It's Japanese animated/drawn porn.

I ended up with this setup:

CDN that allows adult content;
A separate domain;
A server in Russia (they ignore DMCA);
A simple apache2 redirect server on it.

This way a link to cdn.example.com/video.mp4 would appear as cdn.myowndomain.com/video.mp4 to a copyright holder. I was thinking of securing it further with a 403 Forbidden page to anyone who would try to access it from anywhere else except my website to hide the domain address of my CDN provider (to deceive copyright holders into thinking the content is actually stored on this Russian server, not on a well-established CDN), but after googling around for a few days I didn't manage to find a solution for this. As of now, it is purely cosmetic since everyone who would go to cdn.myowndomain.com will be redirected to my CDN's domain and would be able to write a DMCA notice to them, which will most likely make me banned. But since my website uses cdn.myowndomain.com now, I can always transparently switch CDNs or even make my own CDN / reverse proxy with nginx, without editing my whole list of posts.

Araki said:

I'm running a hentai website for a month now. There are full episodes just like you'd see on hanime and other popular hentai websites. Never got any copyright claims, though the traffic itself is almost zero anyway.

I wonder how do the popular websites dodge the copyright claims from the copyright holders? Or the Asian studios simply doesn't care about the western market in this regard?

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do you have your own content server? Or do you just paste the iframe of pirate servers on your site?

Waifu_tatyana said:

do you have your own content server? Or do you just paste the iframe of pirate servers on your site?

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I store the content on Storj, from where it comes to a CDN through a gateway link service they provide. They do have DMCA policies, but still, it feels like a more acceptable solution than, let's say, Amazon S3