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

[hahanaho]

Why do you feel that way? Has it happened to anyone?

Because the site added a strange new point when uploading a chapter: "3. I am authorized by the copyright owner to upload this content on MangaDex."

From the thread
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/delete-my-group.2282088/ . It’s pretty damning imo.

 

[T-sama]

From the thread
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/delete-my-group.2282088/ . It’s pretty damning imo.

Even before the faq that upload change is really damning, I wonder how many people already wrote off Mangadex as not a option for uploading their translations

 

[Idiot69]

apology for poor english
when were you when mangadex was die?
i was at home watching fast & furious 12 when i get phone call
"mangadex is kill"
"no"

 

[BestBoy]

pretty damning imo.

What is? That's just a thread about how broken the account deletion is on MD. It's been broken for years.

upload change

I've mentioned elsewhere (to you specifically) it doesn't mean anything. MD is just gonna do what they've always done and remove any chapters they get DMCA take down requests for.

It's also dubious as to whether that's a new change or something they moved from elsewhere on the site (like they did with the Privacy Policy)

 

[Angry_Panda]

I've mentioned elsewhere (to you specifically) it doesn't mean anything. MD is just gonna do what they've always done and remove any chapters they get DMCA take down requests for.

It's also dubious as to whether that's a new change or something they moved from elsewhere on the site (like they did with the Privacy Policy)

My suspicion is that because MD isn't doing the scanlations themselves, they would have always been considered an online service provider (OSP), and this is just clarifying that. Nothing really changes with them calling that out - the ultimate legal responsibility for any copyright infringement has always been on the groups/users uploading chapters, not on MD. That's what gets me about some of the groups bailing now - it's not really changing anything that happened before.

 

[BestBoy]

snip

Just operating under Section 230 and making it clear, I think.

 

[SuperOniichan]

The article says 700 titles, FAQ says 7000 titles.
Fuck internet journalism seriously.

He finally updated it. He says they also attacked AnimeHeaven, have you heard anything about that resource?

 

[Kosnope]

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.

What I don't get is why don't they just let people upload new chapters, and let companies waste millions of dollars on manpower required to compile, organize and send new DMCA requests.

 

[hullmat991]

What I don't get is why don't they just let people upload new chapters, and let companies waste millions of dollars on manpower required to compile, organize and send new DMCA requests.

Because publishers like Kakao are utterly relentless when it comes to making an example out of a target. Look what they did to Tachiyomi which was arguably just a web browser that depended on a repository for extension just to access sites. The app devs weren't even the ones making the extensions; however Kakao came loaded to bear with threats of legal action. It's a good thing that MD is making sure that all the t's are crossed and i's are dotted when it comes to DMCA take downs.

 

[XenoAshura]

LOL I've been reading MD longer than most of you. Don't blame me for telling it how it is, and don't get salty when you see info you don't like. It's a bad look. Enjoy the skeleton of a once-great site. Until the rest goes down in a month or two, that is

you sound like a dejected war veteran who just lost his military pension. get off your high horse!

 

[kuronix]

you sound like a dejected war veteran who just lost his military pension. get off your high horse!

Just a guy trying to have a paltry pissing contest. I'm sure most of us remember the day Batoto abandoned us.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

I read in regards to the Reaper Scans takedown a while ago that Kakao Drudgery seems to be in some sort of trouble themselves.
I wish them a happy bankruptcy

 

[hahanaho]

Because publishers like Kakao are utterly relentless when it comes to making an example out of a target.

And yet Asura and the like are still up. Suspicious.

 

[T-sama]

And yet Asura and the like are still up. Suspicious.

No surprise, even if their sites get closed they can still find ways to stay active lol

 

[Pokeroots]

Anyone remember this https://mangadex.org/thread/92399/

 

[ElSuperNova]

Anyone remember this https://mangadex.org/thread/92399/

Been a while since I heard mention of Jaiminis Box

 

[jetabyss13]

i just hope everything will be ok :c
i only just found out about this and my head hurts cuz im also busy with work lol
all i just gotta say, MD means a lot to me
i discovered the site back in 2019 when i was still in highschool thru my old anime club (cringe yeah whatevs) ;w; so ye...

 

[bondejeger]

He finally updated it. He says they also attacked AnimeHeaven, have you heard anything about that resource?

Gatekeeping is stupid. It’s not like the industry doesn’t know about the aggregators out there.

 

[Biboutaine]

Anyone got tips for legal/ethical alternatives for the more obscure series? I’d rather not go full pirate mode, but there are some gems that are now practically untraceable.

 

[kn4ll]

Anyone got tips for legal/ethical alternatives for the more obscure series? I’d rather not go full pirate mode, but there are some gems that are now practically untraceable.

Learn Japanese.
https://djtguide.github.io/
Otherwise buy the raws and use an automatic translator tool like ichigoreader or cotrans to translate them, or use panel cleaner to ocr them yourself and translate them with chatgpt or something.
Anything else is stricly illegal. Though if you buy the raws, I see no reason why you shouldn't allow yourself to read scanlations of them morally speaking.