The biggest SCAM Naruto Fan Site in History

NarutoFan was created by Tazmo as he was known, as the most active and biggest anime fan site since Planet Namek. The site offer a massive community of fans of Naruto and other anime. The site offer a $5 a month membership that allowed members to get access to direct downloads of the latest Naruto subs as well as 100s of other animes and manga scans.

The site became so popular that after ten years, Vic Media the Distributor Naruto seized the domain name from Tazmo forcing him to move to Naruto.Anifreak.com in 2011.

Tazmo was the owner of Naruto that offer direct downloads of Naruto Fan subs publicy. The history of the site is one of the most talked about fan websites ever due to the controversy around Tazmo with offering the "Plus!" membership for a fee.

What came was a massive website that offer copy-pasted anime information on the big three anime bit real drive was geting easy access to anime fan subs for anime. People started a movement agaist him due to his Plus services as he was making a profit off fan subs that where for the most part offer 100% for free.

it was NarutoFan that pushed for subs to start getting labedl this is a free sub do not pay for this on the start of the video.

In 2004 a website called StopTazmo.com went up as a counter-site that hosted the scanlations and even links to download fansubs for free.

Fans came together with their dissatisfaction with Tazmo and NarutoFan. The owner of StopTazmo also ran National Anime. The website created many posts with information about the evil nature of Tazmo and his money making scams as it was called. They also hosted a community board known as Bash Tazmo Board where many went to spread hate about Tazmo.

Today the website is a general blog likely  owned by a media company and no longer has anything about Stop Tazmo that it once was.

Even after everything, there was no stopping NarutoFan, that was until VIZ media step in 2011 and forced Tazmo to released the domain name. Shortly after a poist by Tazmo about the seize, he moved the website in all to the domain name Naruto.Anifreak\.com (This website has been marked as scammy and do not recommend looking it up).

According to Tazmo, "Earlier this month we received notice from VIZ Media [...] that they intend to try and claim the NarutoFan.com domain as a domain that should *rightfully* be theirs, and take ownership of it. VIZ Media's major complaint is that NarutoFan.com can *easily* be confused for an official Naruto website" despite that the site "[has] the word *FAN* in the domain name" and that "we mention in one way or another that we are a fan-site on nearly every single page of this website."

Tazmo speculated that ViZ's interests in his domain might have been to capitalize on the websites mass traffic by forwarding to theirs (which it still does to this day). it had been reported that since VIZ had previously been on friendly terms with Tazmo. Often saying he was sent free stuff by the for giveaways, kept them in the loop to press releases and even had their publishers send them to Los Angeles and had a press pass at major game shows.

There has been no proof that any of this happened and was more he-said-she-said. While many fans spread rumors that Tazmo had been given a DMCA on the fansubs, no other website that also ran the same format, at a lessor scale, never where sent a DMCA.

Reports of no DMCA was sent to NaurtoFan to take down scanlations or fansubs. No one knows if VIZ's decision to seize NarutoFan.com had anything to do with Tazmo making money frm fan is unknown. But its also unlikely, since everything had happened on the site just moved to a new site. Business as always, but the traffic died down.

It does beg the question the real reasons, has many fans debated that there was more going on behind the secnes that could not be talked about publicly. There was no court cases or filing agaist Tazmo or NarutoFan itself.

You can read more about the drama on Inside Scanlation which did a very good article about the whole ordeal wioth how NarutoFan was selling Fansubs.