The thing with China is that they always kept a very tight leash on their country and population, Russia meanwhile has no choice but to go overboard, especially with their corruption at all levels.
C'est des crétins qui pensent juste au fric.
There is a joke here for a reason: "the severity of Russian laws is offset only by the non-obligation of their implementation." The laws are often so harsh that they are difficult to follow and may be ignored if you are not being cheeky. Well, at least if it's not politics, it's expected. Just recently I read a news story about how art with Pepe Clown was banned because of "LGBT colors", because apparently any rainbow is too gay. However, as the experience of Steam or even Crunchroll here shows, it is easy to persuade a consumer in Russia to lower the Jolly Roger if you create a friendly enough market.
Someone on Discord posted this link. It looks like 1329 manga got hit.
I wanted to be happy that a number of "my" big titles weren't affected, but now I'm starting to get paranoid that threads here or on reddit might be reading and tracking what titles are being mentioned.
Russian authorities like to have the illusion of control, I think that's why they make such absurd laws, they then crack some skulls to scare everyone else and it stops at that, message sent.
Well, publishers, executives and so on always hated piracy, but they know when to give up or make concessions, it seems Japanese and Koreans don't, there's no arguing, discussion or nuance, piracy is bad, they want it to stop, period.
Now that mangadex bent the knee I'm honestly just waiting for a second dmca hit in a few weeks or months
The current Russian government is made up of people of the "old school", so it is expected that their understanding of legal realities is still somewhere in the 60s or 70s. It is not surprising that Putin once accidentally called trans people "transformers".
by the way MD and youtube is blocked in russia. and I am in russia. and here. and on youtube. that is the extend of how well this would work...
mate, you need to research DNI software and hacks (no ads with them), prolly get a router with openWRT, could not say more for you know that reasons -__-
Not sure about MD, I'm without a VPN right now. But I've had to find solutions in the past, yes.
Link doesn't work
I noticed, I'm pretty sure Putin for decades has been working to try bring USSR back, it's why they're assimilating everyone around them and invaded Ukrained.
I honestly have no fucking clue, never tried using them and I sure wouldn't pay even if I could lol, not even sure my country has access to it actually.
Not surprised lol, it's like I said, illusion of power, honestly? With how rampant corruption is I doubt they could do much even if they actually wanted to try.
nah, probably not, they will be in next big DMCA....
you not entirely get this. in russia generally no one gives a shit about a lot. whole shabang with roskomnadzor doing "cenzorship" is mostly to cheer domestic kvas-patriots. they really happy government protect them and the children from gays and suicide on the internet.
I have a good idea of our ruling class, they sadly younger. some a lot so. and getting younger. and they are smart, yet not about internet and some hi-tech. and not going anywhere either. and clever about propaganda too, not like the soviet honchos were. they create narratives that masses gulp down gladly.
other publishers care very little or just give you first couple of chapters to read. MangaPlus are kinda weird like that what they give access to latest issues.
I am so automated this days what I have no clue how much and where I use VPN or not xD MD was not available for long time though. cause of lolis and yaoi. not sure what changed. would be funny if some of the nuked titles disappearing made cite available xD
To be fair rainbows are pretty dangerous, I remember when I saw one from too close and had to control gay urges, as for suicide, well mangadex situation certainly making me consider it
Capitalism Ho!
This reminds me of revolutions, and how many times the new people becomes as bad or worse as previous rulers, thanks to rampant corruption, exploitation and so on, I can see some young russians liking the system as it is as long as they can get a piece of the pie, it's unfortunate really
jokes aside but as LGBT person living in russia and being well in tune with culture, I say the biggest threat to LGBT were the western educated LGBT activists who stir the shit what should've been left alone. russia was a lot more tolerant before they started activism that was counter productive in russian cultural field. kinda fucked a lot more things for queers than achieved.
yup
it's not that. it's more like... russia feel itself good being capitalist right now. things still are ok, they not get worse (like in US for example, I am amazed with how broken their country is and they still did not revolt) for a long time. a lot of people live a happy lives even with, ahem, current events. like, do not believe a lot said of russia in western news. things not as bad. like, fuck did not wanted to say anything about it, the war russia does is won. it was won in the morning of 22 february 2022. RN all is about how much russia will get, and russia kinda does not want more than it's already has. anyway, fuck it, will not talk about it, it all depressing haunting shit.
do not recommend, shit is wile. good rum is all that you need on high seasMaybe we all should drink some vodka and forget out problems comrade @volodyuka and @SuperOniichan
I would argue it's the opposite, it's the uneducated ignorant self-righteous ones that stir problems and are vocal as fuck, it's like how for example, at some point feminism was about equality, but for years more often than not anyone you see calling themselves a feminist is more like "feminist" for various reasons
That sounds lile a pretty bleak place :v, I find funny that some think Russia is winning, like, it's 3 fucking years still fighting a country that is a fraction of their size, how the fuck is that winning?
Yup, things don't look like will get better in a while, and it's a global issue with right wing of the rise, or at least was cause right now it's mostly US really getting fucked since Mango Mussolini is in power again
Fair enough, rum it isdo not recommend, shit is wile. good rum is all that you need on high seas
I don't remember if I outright said mangadex should ignore the dmca, but I did question how they put themselves into a situation where they have to comply with it
I am with you 100% things gone into some weird direction even I don't want to be
