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

[respheal]

Sup guys, I work in webhosting so I can provide a little bit of a solution for you guys if you want your content taken down (I checked and this site isn't hosted with my company, although it would have been hilarious if it was since I could nope them so hard for this--I mean, heck, what better proof of stolen content than having my own damn comic on it).

This site is using Cloudflare, which means the actual host is obscured. However, when Cloudflare receives an abuse complaint it forwards the complaint on to the real host to resolve. You can find the Cloudflare abuse form here: https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form

[Down_the_Rabbithole]

Even mine's on there and I'm a nobody! What the fuck, man?!

[echosrift]

Thanks. And yes that would be pretty hilarious. XD

[UrMom]

Huh, most of my comic is on there too. The way it is set up reminds me of when Comic Rocket first started up, they took comics from sites like SJ and Comicfury and pasted them on their site. It wasn't meant to be a theft thing, but so people can use their site as a directory, they even gave links leading do the original hosting site. But considering there being no way to contact the site owners, no way to claim or put links on your comic, I honestly can't tell what this is.

[tayo_rafferty]

1 page of one of my comics is there and everything else is absent XD.

[respheal]

Nah, the difference with Comic Rocket is that it's just an iframe. The traffic still actually goes to your site. This site is legitimately stealing traffic from the comic owners.

[echosrift]

Yeah, definitely reminds me of comic rocket. At least with comic rocket, it embeds your full site, AND (at least for me) there was a choice in the matter.

[echosrift]

Weird. Well it's definitely a new site. Maybe it's not done scraping yet. But hopefully you will be spared.

[Down_the_Rabbithole]

Submitted my complaint. Hopefully this gets taken down.

Though, I don't think it'll steal too many views from me. Again, I'm a nobody. No one is going to be looking for my comic.

[mintycanoodles]

yep, my whole damn comic's there too. ya'll update this thread if you find out anything. this is some bologna.

[Kayke]

Thank you for this! I sent them a complaint.

[michaelson]

Hello,

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. We are not affiliated with sixmanga in any way and are deeply troubled by what has transpired. We are working on solutions to prevent cases like this from happening in the future.

[Radio_chio]

I submitted a complaint through the Cloudflare link posted in this thread and they already got back to me, saying they passed it along to the webhost for sixmanga. (https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form) I'm not sure it will do anything, but it probably doesn't hurt to send a complaint anyway.

[Kimcchirific]

yea saw mine in there as well and i'm srsly new here at tapastic...i joined a week ago and they already have the comic i just started yesterday lols

[TaisSS]

I hope Tapastic does something about this soon. My 3 webcomics are there.
It is sad but if it's not resolved in a few months I don't know if I will keep updating on Tapastic ;w;
I know the staff will try to prevent it from happening again in the future but I would like to know if Tapastic is going to do anything about the already uploaded pages or it's just on us to send the complain forms and wait...

[ratique]

I hope Tapastic does something about this soon.

I doubt Tapastic can do something about another site - but they can try to avoid this from happening again.

Please notify any creator who's work you find on the site, so they can put in a complaint. When this happened in the past, the websites were taken down after being flooded by our creator's messages.

[Down_the_Rabbithole]

What am I supposed to do now?

[echosrift]

Thank you! I know IP theft is common and there will always be shady businesses everywhere trying to steal from creators. But obviously it's in all our best interests if we can shut this kind of thing down, and it's nice to know the Tapastic Team is doing what they can!

[serverpanda]

I've been forced to submit a complaint as well. Hopefully it works. If not then at least we can all say we tried.

[respheal]

Um, going by the image you posted you may not have filled out the form? Try submitting the complaint form again.