“While it is clear that legal pressure is being applied, the source remained unmentioned. Today we can officially confirm that Kakao Entertainment is driving the action.
Through its dedicated anti-piracy enforcement arm, P.CoK, the South Korean entertainment giant is categorically targeting Bato.to and many related people and services.
The most significant blow to the operation is the identification of Bato.to’s founder and core developer. P.CoK confirmed to TorrentFreak that they have tracked the individual to their country of residence, where legal proceedings are now active.
Responding to this threat, the P.CoK team tackled the problem from multiple sides. In addition to preparing a lawsuit against the operator, it went after other key channels, including the aforementioned communities on Reddit and Discord.
“We adopted a strategy that categorizes individuals involved in the operation into multiple tiers and applies tailored countermeasures to each group. Legal proceedings are currently underway in the country of residence of the founder and core developer,” P.CoK notes.“
The bato audience migrating to mgg scares tf outta me, cuz some of them couldnt keep their mouth shut abt their site online which led to it shutting down. I fear the same may happen with mangago. 2 reply
the fact that a simple discord mod got tracked down and stalked by kakao just for moderating the bato discord is insanity. they have too much money and time on their hands. 1 reply
I'm tired of money hungry companies like wtf do you expect people to do when your charging $20 to pay for one chapter like Kakao is ass anyways 2 reply
I’m just hoping this website doesn’t get shut down too. I have so much save here and many more to read and all of the sudden it shut down without warning. I’ll be so piss! This is a bad way to start the year. reply
Okay I know it sounds backwards and crazy cuz it’s obviously me defending illegal sites (again, I know it’s backwards) but I just feel bad for the developer. They are the reason I really got thru so many tough times the last several years because of the community of the site. So, in solidarity of the developer only, I have promised myself I�...... 2 reply
For anyone who's gonna say "fund mangago" Girl the site will go down faster that way. It's one of the reasons why bto went down in the first place due to the jujucat drama it was revealed you can donate to the site. Reason why a lot of SCAN sites are gone is due to that, that is literally speedrun to being permanently down forever. Kakao will targe...... 1 reply
Legal proceedings, chile lemme get outta here, jail for gay porn, what a world we live in, The people who make/distribute rape content want to put people in jail, Chile what is this? And mangago has a Reddit, watch when they come after that. I hope I'm not included in any tier tf. reply