Are you referring to the title entries?, if so, anyone can make them in here you just need to follow the requirements and when hit submit it will be reviewed by the mods, I have made 2 entries in the past
Probably uploaders who didn't get the message that it's a dmca raid and it'll be permanently down, so they think someging went wrong and are uploading again
So, until official clarification from the site staff, this should not be perceived as a sign of the situation being corrected?
I would assume so, I think a mod said they'll change so dmca'd series can't have uploads anymore too, either here or in the other discussion, but don't quote me on that lol
So, most likely all nuked titles are already lost for MD forever?
Yes and there's nothing we can do.
Yup, which is why I mentioned multiple times one shots, pixiv, twitter, fanbox and so on, be it extras of a series or completely original stuff, that is arguably at the real risk of being lost forever and becoming lost media, cause they're the most rare and niche stuff that can fall through the cracks straight into the shadow realm
Yep. The English idiom would be 'cutting off your nose to spite your face' - not sure if that will translate well, but it's not something that seems to be actually benefiting them at all, at least on the surface.
Recently, one of the Russian-speaking YouTubers released a video about how anti-consumer copyright protection provokes increased piracy and the emergence of lost media. I even wonder if he was somehow aware of this incident...
I can also recall the Russian (Slavic?) proverb "to throw out the bathwater with the baby in it". Fan scanlation helped many new titles become popular and get localized outside of Japan back in the day. Not to mention the essentially free promotion of these titles and their anime adaptations in the West. For example, every time you hear people praising a manga in a discussion about anime adaptation announcements, those people most likely either read it on MD or were able to get a licensed edition due to its popularity on MD.
The thing with Japanese executives is that the west never really mattered, they know we buy some mangas, but it's not enougg for them to have incentive to change things.
Unlikely he knew anything, he might have been talking cue to some incident in Russia, really, this incident isn't anything new, we went through this multiple times, main issue is that people don't learn and don't change how they host sites.
To continue on this and what I said before, it's why Nintento changed their Eula on Switch, they don't care about anything except stop piracy at any cost, even though putting in their Eula that they can brick your console and by having a Nintendo account you accept you can't sue them, is quite literally a lawsuit waiting to happen.
In fact, the Russian government has already tried to enlist the support of pirates as a "take that" response to the related part of the sanctions. Piracy has always been so rampant here that in the early '00s you could even find bootleg chocolate bars with Haruhi Suzumiya characters or housewife detective novels with a Sailor Moon cosplayer as the main character. They even essentially lifted the permanent ban from country's largest torrent tracker. But they predictably decided that this would obviously be indirectly perceived as support for the Russian-Ukrainian war, so they officially refused to take advantage of the moment. Leaving aside "real politics", I think you can clearly see what absurd situations such a crude fight against piracy can lead to.
I want that chocolate lol, here on my country piracy has also always been rampant, no idea how it is nowadays though lolIn fact, the Russian government has already tried to enlist the support of pirates as a "take that" response to the related part of the sanctions. Piracy has always been so rampant here that in the early '00s you could even find bootleg chocolate bars with Haruhi Suzumiya characters or housewife detective novels with a Sailor Moon cosplayer as the main character. They even essentially lifted the permanent from country's largest torrent tracker. But they predictably decided that this would obviously be indirectly perceived as support for the Russian-Ukrainian war, so they officially refused to take advantage of the moment. Leaving aside "real politics", I think you can clearly see what absurd situations such a crude fight against piracy can lead to.
If you're only talking about official releases of physical volumes in France (tbh I haven't kept up enough to know if we even got official simulpubs here), Sanctuary has a schedule for what's coming out in the next few months from most if not all publishers. I don't really like it because it's kind of a minefield with the ads, but I've created a list there so I can keep track of what I'm reading and know what to buy when I got the money to do so or even plan forward a bit, can't spend as much on manga as I did when I had a job. Much more useful than MAL or mangaupdates in that aspect.You're lucky, we have too much publisher in France...
Thanks, I'm saving that.
I personnaly use the website Nautiljon. It has a planning where you can see the future manga available for each month. You can also see if a manga is available in France, was, or is not, in the manga's page on the website. Imperfect, but it helps a lots.
Well, at least China does it in an organized and methodical way. Russian blocking of sites is like trying to fix a broken nail with a chainsaw. The situation with YouTube, which forced me to use a VPN and watch ads in French, German and Spanish every 10 minutes, is a clear indicator of this. Well, at least the French ads for new games were pretty useful, but still.I want that chocolate lol, here on my country piracy has also always been rampant, no idea how it is nowadays though lol
Politics always ruin everything one way or another.
Also since you mentioned Russia, I guess that's tangent to my point, like, western countries and Japan will probably try or make laws to stop manga piracy, but that only helps so far, manga piracy is just too global, what they're gonna do? Start blocking entire parts of the internet like how Russia and China do?
Honestly, I really don't see manga piracy stopping as long as peoppe use their fucking brains.
And I still want that chocolate
