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Originally Posted by Random32
Optimally I would like to see Animesuki expand out beyond just unlicensed series. US Licensing seems the only one being taken into account and there are more visitors to ASuki than just those in US.
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That doesn't really work well with a site like AnimeSuki. The way the site is organized doesn't just make it easier for downloaders to find what they want, but for copyright holders as well. So we are guaranteed to get DMCA requests and unless we go the TPB route, we have no choice but to comply with them. Even while the torrent index is not hosted in the the US, it doesn't mean that any non-US host will simply ignore and laugh at DMCA requests - so even if we ignore them our host probably won't (and shut us down eventually).
I'm not sure if (and how many) DMCA requests sites like TT or NyaaTorrents receive, but the design of these sites makes it harder to find all "offending" content and even if a copyright holder asks them to take down a bunch of torrents then users could easily re-upload them again. Also the fact that these sites feature user-submitted content means they're slightly less likely to get into serious legal trouble than a manually maintained index like AnimeSuki (even if some part is automated, the first few episodes of any series need to be added manually for the scripts to be able to automate adding of the rest).