What is sixmanga.me and why is it hosting all of our comics?!

[CalimonGraal]

Haha, looks like my comics images are broken on that site now too (except for the very first page for Psychteria which for some reason is still there but it might be my cache lol)
awesome job tapas 8V

[redsblueyoungster]

Mother of christ my comic is on there too. I should post a watermark link on my stuff from now on. At least it seems that no one has noticed it on that site though.

[Valalaraptor]

was going through my comic, which was all broken images up until it became food wars???

[Kimcchirific]

WOW!! that was fast, Great job !!

[petitecreme]

Mines on there as well (Wastelands) but the link to my name is some other artist?
Thankfully no images are uploaded but someone on twitter said the owner of the site is from Alibaba?

How soon can Tapas sort this out?

What can we do as individuals to protect/stop phishing if we go to this site or whatever?

[efdvorsky]

Even if the images are broken or not, I'm still sending the letter because I don't want them anywhere near my comic, tbh. It's just a dick move and I ain't having it.

SO! While Tapastic does their thing, this is the letter I'm sending to contact@sixmanga.com

This is an official cease and desist,

I am contacting you as the creator for Cosmic Fish, Cosmic Fish: Extras, and Cosmic Fish: Gone Fishing. The original published work has been granted distribution authorization ONLY to the comic-sharing platform Tapastic.com, Tumblr.com, and CosmicFishes.com.

The original pieces officially released for distribution are:

All 180 pages of Cosmic Fish (spread in “136 episodes”)
- https://tapastic.com/series/Cosmic-Fish
- http://cosmicfishes.com
- http://cosmicfishes.tumblr.com

all 29 pages of Cosmic Fish Extras:
- https://tapastic.com/series/Cosmic-Fish-Extras

and all 9 pages of Gone Fishing:
- https://tapastic.com/series/cf-gone-fishing

The plot and characters associated to Cosmic Fish, and its derived works, are all protected by the Copyright Act of 1976 (17 U.S.C. §§ 101-810) and its subsequent amendments in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Sixmanga.me has violated national and international copyrights laws by distributing my content to their website without my permission.

I am the sole owner, creator, and distributor of this content. Therefore, I request that these links, and any trace of the entire series and its extensions, to be immediately removed from sixmanga.me plus any of its affiliates, and not re-uploaded again under the penalties prescribed by the laws.

A list below has been provided that contains the links to the infringed work. If no action is taken to remove said work from the website, I will have to resort to an appropriate legal action. I appreciate your urgent considering to this matter.

Attentively,
Eliana Falcón
(Cosmographia)

Links to the infringed work:
[LIST, not posting it here obviously]

You can borrow ideas and words from this, but I'm just copy/pasting it here so you guys can see how it was written. Below, I posted the link for all 200+ pages, whether they're broken or not, to drive the point home.

Still working on the Google thing, though.

[loxeyer]

Hi All.

I am so sorry for stole the site comic . I removed this comic from my site immediately when I found this.

Pls pardon me!

So sorry again.Best Regards!

[Vanadis]

Uh-oh... this reminds me of the Art4Love art thieves thing that was doing the rounds with DeviantArt artists...
I'm glad Tapastic have taken care of it. The audacity of these people!!

[mariusthered]

I'm not even going to look, thanks the taptastic staff and everyone for the work on fighting this.

it's so annoying that people do this kinda stuff "ruddy pirates!" as suggested before in the thread I'm going to be making a change to my new pages stating they were made for Taptasic only. however this dose highlight what a strong community we have here all looking out for one another.

[Silerna]

Mine got fully removed. Thank you who did that!

[PotooGryphon]

All three of my series have been fully removed from the site as well. Thank you Tapastic team!

Between Team Tapastic and emailing both Cloud Flare and the owner of sixmanga.me that did the trick and it's now removed. Thank you Tapastic community for working together to provide email addresses and links to report the infringements. Great job everybody! I hope everyone else gets their series completely removed from the site as well.

[agentfink]

Tapastic tryimg to remove all series? Or do we have to do our part to ensure it's removed?

I'm not sure I'm on there (haven't looked).

[PotooGryphon]

Tapastic can only do so much from their side. Basically severing the link sixmanga.me had with Tapastic that gave them the ability to grab series.

There is, I'd imagine, responsibility on the artist's side to report the infringement and issue a Cease and Desist to the site owner to make it clear not to steal their stuff.

[jonufele]

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[phoenixrenaissance]

A big thanks to Tapastic for removing my comics from the site without having to report. You guys are awesome.

[Add]

Just found out about this and it's already been mostly fixed!! You guys are awesome

[Merryweatherey]

... Why doesn't Sixmanga want to steal MY comics?

[Down_the_Rabbithole]

'Cause we busted them, matey.

[redsblueyoungster]

My comic has been taken down on the site now. I am pleased.

[VermillionWorks]

Mine's gone from there...yay!