Most who wants to continue are just going to upload to batoto or whatever instead.
If you check the titles, it's several publishers. All the big publishers have gotten their several of their manga removed. It's pretty similar to when batoto went down.
No the title entries are not removed, only the chapters. Not all chapters are removed yet from the title pages, but they're going to be after a while, and most likely you won't be able to upload any more chapters of that series anymore if I had to guess. They already did this to several series like one punch man.
I don't think it matters that much, you'll still probably be able to make scanlations of most of the series there's a point of making scanlations of. Most of the series that were hit were licensed, and my suspicion that the ones that weren't licensed are probably going to be licensed in the future. Though only one of the series I had worked on got hit, and it's a four year old series that got axed at three volumes that's not licensed, which obviously is kind of weird.
They're losing money. It's probably not viable to have it so cheap in the long run.
Let's hope so, I searched for the official release of School Back, the first link on google is mangadex.
It doesn't matter. It's about protecting what they own even if they had long abandoned it years ago. That's how Japanese companies operate.
Black Cat Scanlations didn't get taken down because of paywalls, they got taken down because they stupidly released scanlations before the official release was out in Japan. Idiotically enough their previous group Jamini's Box got taken down for the exact same stupid reason.
DMCA. It's not only the BCS but all the other groups also.
Some manga that have never had an official English translation have also been removed. Can they really do that? Don't they have no right to the English translation, and doesn't the English script belong to the scanlator, so that what they DMCA is not fully theirs anymore?
It's the publishers that have issued the DMCAs apparently, not the licensors. They're the copyright holders.
Copyright in the original work extends to any translations as well, so they have the right to do that.
Okay I don't entirely disagree with the "people don't want to pay" notion because due to the historically piss poor service piracy has essentially become the norm for most english manga readers, but it certainly doesn't help that these apps make actually paying for chapters such an absurd pain in the ass with its multiple currency systems and chapters being split up into several smaller chunks all to obfuscate how much you're actually spending on anything (which last time I checked with manga-up was as much as just straight up buying a full volume but that could've changed by now).
Ah, yes, the 'I can't have what I want so burn it all down' gambit.
It doesn't matter for the purpose of this site, which mainly is as a scanlation community. That people can't pirate their licensed manga here anymore isn't really of any concern to be honest.
