Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[Pauan]

Platforms will choose to follow laws of jurisdictions in which it is beneficial for them to continue being able to operate on. Are you sure you really need me to explain this to you or are you just arguing in bad faith? Have you ever wondered why youtube or twitter will follow common western laws but don't ban LGBT content? Come on man...

Oh! So you admit that you are CHOOSING to censor things.

You could just... not cater to those jurisdictions, just like how you don't cater to the Muslim countries that ban homosexuality.

So you blatantly lied when you claimed that you have no choice, you blatantly lied when you claimed that censoring is the only way for MangaDex to continue to exist.

There are other ways for MangaDex to continue to exist, you are simply not choosing those ways.

 

[TGN]

Aight I'm getting kinda tired of reading hours of arguing with sprinkles of xenophobia/racism. I'll check in tomorrow to see where this ended up. Enjoy some peak Undertale animation!

 

[aunony]

There are several jurisdictions that consider ficional depictions of underage characters in sexual acts to be illegal.

Hello, sir,

Here are 136 pages of lolisho rated as erotica or mature. Please remove them from your site, as they are illegal and violate your nonsensical policy:

https://mangadex.org/titles?page=1&...erotica&onlyAvailableChapters=false&incMode=2

Go on, humor me, and remove them.
Protip: you won't

 

[KanzakiYuu]

Do those jurisdictions not consider piracy/copyright infringement to be illegal?

Literally @Xnot

 

[shinshom]

Jumping back here because my previous post had a sentence that was poorly worded and came off as too much of a personal attack or moral grandstanding. I also didn't provide enough context on the content being removed, so that's on me.

I've been reading some of the replies, and thank you for voicing your opinions and concerns, whether in this thread or elsewhere. Users want clarification on the removals, so please find it below.

We were made aware of content that goes against our content policy, specifically clause 3.1.1 regarding underage characters in pornographic settings. The content that was removed, and some content still being reviewed, includes entries labelled Mature, with characters that are engaging in sexual intercourse and either:

• They are clearly very young in appearance, and the content does not confirm that they are adults.
• The content itself confirms that they are under the age of 18.

Nothing else is being examined at this time. We're currently exploring options to retain the title entry and other non-infringing metadata, but for now, we need to proceed with the removal.

Nice trying to save after insulting everyone around, but yeah, already damaged enough the image of the staff of MD.... I thought u guys were better.

 

[seekermoc]

Platforms will choose to follow laws of jurisdictions in which it is beneficial for them to continue being able to operate on. Are you sure you really need me to explain this to you or are you just arguing in bad faith? Have you ever wondered why youtube or twitter will follow common western laws but don't ban LGBT content? Come on man...

Twitter is a for-profit corporation. Mangadex is a non-profit project run by the scanlation community for the scanlation community, and being able to operate in any arbitrary jurisdiction shouldn't be a consideration. Even comparing the two is an insult to our intelligence. Unless all the reassurances from the mods that MD is still a community project and being operated by NamiComi won't change anything are BS.

Though seriously, if this is a decision from the new corporate overlords, just tell us that openly. You owe us that much considering MangaDex would be nothing without its user community, and the contributors need to know whether they can still post content here or if they need to be afraid of running afoul of unannounced rule changes.

 

[Miros]

Why does this remind me of the BS crunchyroll and FAKKU pulled off before they went full corpo?

 

[cybeast21]

Hello, sir,

Here are 136 pages of lolisho rated as erotica or mature. Please remove them from your site, as they are illegal and violate your nonsensical policy:

https://mangadex.org/titles?page=1&...erotica&onlyAvailableChapters=false&incMode=2

Go on, humor me, and remove them.
Protip: you won't

They won't, but thanks for the recommendation

 

[Mazaky]

This is not going to end well, I'm telling you, the event that's gonna unfold is people mass exodus from this site, along with subscription cancellations. Betray your fans, and the trust is lost forever.

I gotta say, I have been reading from several other sites for a long time since the few last mass purges that happened on this site, I still had some I would come back (without even login anymore, just plain search) because of the scan groups being better. If they move to other sites that keep gaining strength out there I would have no reason to come back and I think a lot of people will realize that with this shitshow that is happening right now.

 

[NoxTuk]

Why does this remind me of the BS crunchyroll and FAKKU pulled off before they went full corpo?

Because it is pretty much the same thing.
They're registered as a company under(?) NamiComi on the UK, so they're probably scrapping everything "problematic" so they can go legal.
In a few months or years, they're going to have to delete every single manga translation cause it's going to be categorized as "pirated content" in the eye of the law.

 

[AlphraLoust]

Aight I'm getting kinda tired of reading hours of arguing with sprinkles of xenophobia/racism. I'll check in tomorrow to see where this ended up. Enjoy some peak Undertale animation!

There needs to be an emoticon for a bundle of sticks.

 

[B4z73rd]

Because it is pretty much the same thing.
They're registered as a company under(?) NamiComi on the UK, so they're probably scrapping everything "problematic" so they can go legal.
In a few months or years, they're going to have to delete every single manga translation cause it's going to be categorized as "pirated content" in the eye of the law.

Except mangas with no official translations. That's the category my group sticks it's nose in. Unless an overseas publisher wants to own the whole Katts Work catalog like Fakku did with Wanimanga, we'll just continue with what we're working on, and hope that if it happens, we get picked up to be the legit translators of their work.

 

[Pauan]

Except mangas with no official translations.

Even if it doesn't have an official translation, it is still copyright infringement, it is still illegal, it is still piracy.

All scanlations are, by definition, illegal and copyright infringement.

Every single manga on MangaDex is illegal, except for the manga that were officially licensed from the copyright holder.

 

[popo53414]

some schizo in discord is spreading word that new chapters will soon be paywalled, only coming out and remaining free for the 2nd week of their release. And old chapters will be permanently paywalled.

 

[Superasil]

Titles being removed are those we have been made aware of through a legal nexus

This alludes back to my previous quote in this thread.

Get the fuck out of whatever dogshit country you are in that considers this illegal materiel. Were you threatened with any actual legal action? If so tell us. If not, ignore them.

If you or the admin team genuinely cared about the "longevity" of the website you would move your host out of the country that demands these actions.

Further, I still firmly believe you should step down. Your original comments clearly show you are not a person that has the emotional or logical capacity to run an anime website. You've shown you can't be trusted because of your views.

 

[PilotNOT]

some schizo in discord is spreading word that new chapters will soon be paywalled, only coming out and remaining free for the 2nd week of their release. And old chapters will be permanently paywalled.

Wouldn't be surprised, they want to have both cake and eat it to.

 

[seekermoc]

Because it is pretty much the same thing.
They're registered as a company under(?) NamiComi on the UK, so they're probably scrapping everything "problematic" so they can go legal.
In a few months or years, they're going to have to delete every single manga translation cause it's going to be categorized as "pirated content" in the eye of the law.

I wouldn't even be mad about it if that was the case, I just wish they'd be open about it.

What I would be mad about is if they retroactively got licenses for scanlated manga, then made a profit by selling subscriptions to read fan-scanlated manga without paying anything back to the groups that did all the work.

And before anyone says that's not possible, remember back to when the updated terms of service were first posted on MD (and since revoked), which said that any content posted on MD becomes owned by NamiComi and could be sold for-profit by NamiComi at any time they decide to do so.

edit: actually, the terms still say effectively the same thing, just worded in a less explicit way. See https://mangadex.org/compliance/terms particularly paragraph 7. They aren't claiming ownership over content, but do still reserve the right to resell it as they wish.

 

[B4z73rd]

Even if it doesn't have an official translation, it is still copyright infringement, it is still illegal, it is still piracy.

All scanlations are, by definition, illegal and copyright infringement.

Every single manga on MangaDex is illegal, except for the manga that were officially licensed from the copyright holder.

Yeah, it's owned by the original company, but it's whatever if they feel like coming after us. We'll stop whenever it gets too hot, but we'll keep circling around the sun until then.

 

[Mazaky]

some schizo in discord is spreading word that new chapters will soon be paywalled, only coming out and remaining free for the 2nd week of their release. And old chapters will be permanently paywalled.

To do that they would have to make all the scan groups agree to not publish in any other site or do the translation themselves. This is high unlikely since most of the old chapters are already scrapped in many other sites and, unless they are receiving most of the revenue, the groups would just stop posting here. This also would make a strong case for a total take-down of the entire site since this is why many manhwas focused pages were taken down.

 

[Miros]

Because it is pretty much the same thing.
They're registered as a company under(?) NamiComi on the UK, so they're probably scrapping everything "problematic" so they can go legal.
In a few months or years, they're going to have to delete every single manga translation cause it's going to be categorized as "pirated content" in the eye of the law.