User blog comment:Udarsha45/Operation Against Foreign Sites For Uploading Manga-Anime/@comment-2226235-20140731234936

They're essentially playing a game of Whack-a-Mole here. Even if they shut down a lot of sites, more will just pop up. In the end, it would take too long for them to shut down (or attempt to shut down since this might not even work) every site. I'm not even sure how much they can actually do since so many of the sites are foreign. The Japanese government doesn't have any power over foreign citizens and the companies themselves could maybe sue the owners of the sites if they can somehow find out their identities, but even that would probably be difficult, incredibly expensive with all the legal fees, and would end up taking years. In short, I doubt this will accomplish much long term.