--- title: Spain dismantles major $4.7M manga piracy platform,... description: Spanish police have dismantled the largest Spanish-language manga piracy platform, believed to be Tu Manga Online (TMO), which operated since 2014 and served... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/spain-dismantles-major-4-7m-manga-piracy-platform-arrests-four-hycbacxc6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Spain dismantles major $4.7M manga piracy platform, arrests four | daily.dev og:description: Spanish police have dismantled the largest Spanish-language manga piracy platform, believed to be Tu Manga Online (TMO), which operated since 2014 and served... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/spain-dismantles-major-4-7m-manga-piracy-platform-arrests-four-hycbacxc6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hYCBacxC6.png og:image:alt: Spain dismantles major $4.7M manga piracy platform, arrests four og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Spain dismantles major $4.7M manga piracy platform, arrests four **[BleepingComputer](https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Spanish police have dismantled the largest Spanish-language manga piracy platform, believed to be Tu Manga Online (TMO), which operated since 2014 and served millions of monthly users worldwide. The platform generated over $4.7 million in advertising revenue, largely through aggressive pop-up ads including pornographic content. Four individuals were arrested, and a raid uncovered a complex technological setup along with over $470,000 in cryptocurrency hidden in USB devices inside a wall thermometer. The suspect was also developing a second website, likely as a backup, which was prevented from launching. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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