In another room. Prior to my last move, I had a large bookshelf stacked about three deep with tanks (and a smaller one with the entire US Shonen Jump Monthly print run), but sold 75-80% of the tanks and the SJ because one of the collections had to go. I spent about half of what I got on the move and pocketed the other half, and still have a couple shelves of tanks of series I really like.
There are already several, ichigoreader and cotrans off the top of my head.
That's not the same thing. Both require you to upload the images manually, and they work one chapter (or worse, image) at a time, so the translation is inevitably going to be shitty since they won't even consistently translate names.
Not crying or screaming or anything but I did buy some of them. Most are simply unavailable though, so me reading a pirated copy would still net a fat zero for the publisher.
I did and that's why it's not a big hit for me. A lots of the nuked series i was following are in my home library right now, they're published even in French. I also have a few of them on, bookwalker. And i wouldn't have discovered them without the help of the scanlations.
That's literally irrelevant because:
Once in a while I remember hearing this year about a group or two getting dmca to their sites, and I'm pretty sure someone said in a comment that baka tsuki got dmca too, but otherwise nobody else
I've heard that some of the biggest sites were shut down this way last year, but I didn't pay much attention to it, since MD usually had a quiet deal with publishing official editions or deleting series after licensing them. But it looks like they've decided to go all out this time.
From what I've heard, many translators have their own versions. But after this raid, I'm even afraid to discuss it, since they are probably reading this thread to monitor the situation.
There was a big sweep of Brazilian sites... early this year? Late last year?
About 5-6 years ago this happened with Russian sites too, although previously many copyright holders did not care about us due to the lack of licensing for most of the titles. But after Crunchroll and Wakanim came to us, their Russian representatives started going to sites demanding that most of the fan subs/dubs/scanlate be removed. Ironically, after the "famous events" all of this disappeared in an instant, since the mentioned sites temporarily stopped working in Russia.
I will reincarnate as Wet Onii-chan's Imouto then
