It has been a brutal few months for readers of pirated comics and manga. On Monday, Newtokki, a major illegal webtoon site in Korea, abruptly shut down. In a no

Naver Webtoon, for one, has rolled out an in-house tool named Toon Radar that embeds invisible watermarks in each chapter. When a pirated copy turns up online, the watermark allows the company to trace it back to the specific account that downloaded it.