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- The original GoGo Anime pirate website was suddenly blocked, affecting other pirate anime websites.
- YugenAnime, a GoGo anime “proxy”, was closed due to financial problems and personal issues.
- Anti-piracy operations in various countries, including Brazil and South Korea, affect pirate websites.
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Recent anti-piracy operations around the world
- Anime GoGo/Anitaku And The Dramacool Chain
A few days ago, a large pirate website, Anime GoGosuddenly stopped adding new content. Some pages related to GoGo have apparently been shut down, but users claim they can still access the website, so it appears it's still active. However, as previously reported, many unrelated pirate anime websites are actually mirroring content from GoGo Anime (also known as Anitaku), thus the sudden freeze affected several other websites. date, where many other people watch anime like it. each piece.
Many of these websites have reported that they are working on a different way of adding new content, as GoGo Anime/Anitaku has apparently remained the same to this day. Today, most pirated anime streaming websites either remove content from other pirated websites or remove it directly from legitimate platforms.

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But this week, The operators of YugenAnime, one of the largest GoGo Anime “proxy” websites, have announced that they will cease operations.. In their farewell note, they claimed the “increasing difficulties in launching and maintaining a website of this scale, financial challenges and personal issues” were behind the decision. They also add that YugenAnime was “just a hobby for us to spread our skills and experiment around” and that it was “never meant to get so much attention and publicity”.
In short, they don't claim to have received any legal notices, but it appears that GoGo's shutdown was a blow to their operations. Also, with so many anti-piracy operations, they may be hesitant to find new ways to keep the service up and running. Unbeknownst to the operators of GoGo Anime/Anitkau, it looks like the website will eventually shut down at this point as well.
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Recent anti-piracy operations around the world
This has been a tough year for pirate websites. Many anti-piracy operations have been conducted in Brazil, Indonesia and the Philippines. In the case of Brazil, Operation 404, the country's largest anti-piracy operation to date, has been underway since 2019, and this year police began a phase of the operation focusing on illegal anime streaming websites.
The South Korean government has also become more strict about illegal content, as k-content now reaches a wider audience through international and legal platforms. Interpol special agent Hong Seong-jin, who has been working with the government to take down websites, recently declared that piracy could “lead to the collapse of the Korean wave”.
In Japan, several companies joined a coalition to fight piracy and created CODA (Content Overseas Distribution Association). Today, CODA includes major companies such as Shueisha, Aniplex, Avex, Kadokawa, Cygames, Shogakukan, Toei, Ghibli and TV Tokyo. They operate locally and internationally (for example, the Brazilian operation was carried out with the help of CODA).
Rights holders claim that piracy costs them billions of dollars a year, but that's a bit hard to quantify because the numbers usually take into account how much more profit would be made if everyone watching illegally switched to legal platforms. will take Pirate websites were shut down. Some people move to legal platforms, but others just look for other illegal services. Piracy is a multifaceted issue involving socio-economic, political and even educational factors (many people may not even know they are consuming illegal content, especially younger and older audiences).
Anime GoGo/Anitaku And The Dramacool Chain
As for GoGo Anime/Anitaku, although it's not yet clear what happened (no coalition has yet claimed to be involved in blocking the website and the operators have remained silent), they have been linked to Dramacool, an Asian entertainment piracy chain . Under copyright pressure and closing many websites. They may follow the path of FMovies, whose website chain included 9anime/AniWave: earlier this year, FMovies suddenly stopped adding content and later shut down everything.
Despite not being officially affiliated with GoGo Anime, YugenAnime's content was actually removed from GoGo (according to Everything.moe ), so the ban was likely a big blow to the site's operators.
Source: YugenAnime