Recently another one manga hosting site was downed by google personnel. The unofficial story is that their file hosting was located on google cloud servers and google nuked the content once it "found out" that it was used for "hosting illegal content".
Now some thoughts: Anime/manga community is, along gaming, is one of the latest bastions of cultural domains that didnt bend the knee to SJW bullshit completely. Could it be another agenda push by alphabet?
It's probably copyright.
The upfront reason is DMCA, but at least for manga hosting sites that generate revenue from ads there's some contingency plan for that. This can be slightly deeper than it appears to be.
Nope. At least not in this case. Kissanime and Kissmanga shut down because stricter copyright laws have been announced in Japan. Though they don't officially apply until Jan 1st 2021, some parts will apply from October iirc.
It is still to early for exact that reason to be in play. They definitely wouldnt be shutting down their own servers by themselves in advance (as their operations generate them money), at least before October. Usually those kind of sites DGAF about DMCA. It's not a charity but a money-making business. What I can sense is that DMCA enforcement was stepped up by google and KA/KM staff thought it wasnt worth the operating cost and trouble to bring it back.
In that case wouldn't it be more likely that they stepped it up to comply with Japanese regulations instead of a personal dislike. It seems unlikely they would invest the energy when the site would be in trouble shortly regardless.
It could be valid point if japanese authorities cared about english-speaking segment of internets. Kissmanga was not exactly oriented to japanese users, in contrary, its main content was scanlations.
There is some tangential precedent for this if you are aware of Nintendo's long-going crusade against people pirating games (and acting hysterically in the face of people using their IPs without permission). It's a huge bitch to get 3ds roms right now because they somehow have pull with U.S. agencies to take down sites that anger them. They did a huge rom site purge in the past that nuked a bunch of normal sites, though it's been so long I can't be more specific.
I don't want to believe that japanese culture promotes being so retarded about IP law, but maybe there's a faction of hysterical busybodies that are rising to power over there.
You're right to be suspicious though, there is motive (financial and ideological) in removing a popular media form that many westerners are using to escape from constant propaganda and genuinely terrible media.
Just in case if you still want roms, there are a bunch on rutracker. The forum is in russian though, you may have to use a translation site.
I'll try it out sometime, thanks.
Also, username checks out.
alphabets are white supremacy. Africans get on fine without the ability to read or write.
Isnt Wakanda one of the most prosperous nations in the world?