Mangadex gets hit by DMCA - more than 25% of chapters gone | staff FAQ update

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Thing is, even less popular series were taken down. OP said that he's not updating anymore after the 700 something update. People just keep commenting and adding more. And based on the discord, some people have lost well over 1500 on their tbr.

The scale, to be exact, will not be known for a while. But it is in the thousands. Not that most of those will be worth reading.
 
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Aw shit even oneshots are targeted : https://mangadex.org/title/e091a0df-ed63-4137-99ad-6d7799e842d2/futari-no-kokuhaku

thought we would at least have that, I discovered a lot of artists by looking at the new releases feed.
Yup, I gave a quick look and saw one or two yuri artist that had their one shots sent to the shadow realm

One shot, pixiv, Twitter, fanbox, stuff like that, good luck actually finding them again, some are pretty much lost forever
Why would you not host the site in a country that ignores DMCA? You don't even have to go with Russian/Bulgaria. Netherlands, Malaysia, Swiss, Romania are all viable.
You see, only eeeeeevil manga sites ignore dmca, Mangadex and Dynasty are the good guys, they play by the rules, don't have ads and so on, so of course they'll do the smart thing and not only host in a country where they can have legal problems, but also probably have the site tied to their real names and such.

Cause you know, that's how good manga sites work, unlike the eeeeevil ones
 
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It does! There are a lot of hidden gems still intact just waiting for you to read them!
But lot of manga I've yet to read were terminated too.

It might be hidden gems but we'll never know :haa:



why do I pick this hobby... It can be taken away so easy. Couple of normiefags and little copyright can kill it with breeze (already happen)
 
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Q: Can we still upload new chapters to titles that were affected by the DMCA? / What about reuploading removed chapters?​

While this is just my speculation as an official statement has yet to be made, I would strongly discourage doing so. Unless publishers suddenly have a change of mind, this would just be asking for more trouble and DMCA takedown requests for Mangadex. Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised if uploads to affected titles get deleted precautionary.
TLDR: No and no, please and thank you.
Also, we can reference the last time this happened: then, DMCAed serieses were made permanently banned. No new chapters. It's a bit strange to me that we haven't gotten a 100% definitive statement saying this (and so some people are continuing to upload in the meantime), but this will likely be the policy.
 
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:fml: anyone got suggestion for a new hobby?
Record collecting?
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(This is just part of the collection.... :nyoron: )
 
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At least Akita Shoten series are still around, also noticed on series I need to upload covers for still made it through.
 

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