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Well, I did call it a "treatise" for a reason. Did you think I was just messing around by dropping that particular word in the title? :meguusmug:

This would be an interesting topic, but it's probably better left for another article. That said, I'll look a bit more into it. Knowing more about how things work on the Japanese side will probably be helpful in understanding what gets published, what doesn't, and (most importantly to us)...

Well, this is a bit different. I don't have any primary source for this, but reading between the lines, the contract is between the licensor, and the licensee. The retailers are not the licensees, the publisher is. So Sell-Off only really applies to the publisher. This means once they've...

Most of my information came from these articles on ANN: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2012-06-11 https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=115 I'll go ahead and append these articles as primary sources in the conclusion section. But if there's anything more...

Part of the problem with citing an article like this is that it requires a lot of sifting through various sources. ANN did do a detailed breakdown, but that was years ago, so the information there is likely outdated. For example, I'm pretty sure that no one does HD cassette tape master-copies...

5.) Conclusion I know this whole thing is gonna fall on some deaf ears. Others are gonna get up in arms about their ideals about having the freedom to do whatever they want in order to make money. Others are gonna say that this is the only way they can make money. But facts are facts...

4.) And this is where my opinions all come together... 1) Do not panhandle or attempt to profit off of scanslation. - It paints a target on your back for the publishers. - It ruins things for everyone when the publishers throw out copyright strikes against Mangadex. 2) Don't bother with...

3.4.) Furthermore, and to be quite frank, the entire business model is trash. On both ends. Everyone loves to talk a big game about supporting the mangaka, right? And quite a few people out there seem to be under the impression that buying the licensed version somehow benefits the mangaka...

Now, here's where my opinion does a 180. 3.3.) I strongly believe that scanslation should continue, no matter if a title has been licensed or not. Reason being? Well, I mentioned before that thing with licensees region locking, and then not translating for all the languages in that region...

3.2.) Furthermore, I will also state my opinion on the idea of running a website outside of Mangadex. It is idiotic and foolhardy. And I will state why. 1.) You need to pay money for the domain. 2.) You need to pay money for the webserver on which your site is hosted. 3.) You need to pay...

3.) Ethics - Your Mileage WILL Vary So, here we begin to get into what is certainly my opinion on the matter. And where I remind you folks that, once again, all violations of Rule 4 will be reported. I know some folks feel very strongly about this stuff, but that's no excuse to be rude or ugly...

2.) Scanslation And Fansubbing - A Very Informal History I won't go into specific dates or even what years events took place, just the progression. It originally started with anime when people twigged to the fact that they had "cartoons" in Japan, and some of them were pretty damn fun to watch...

And so, without further ado... 1.) The Basics of Licensing Here, we will cover what Licensing is and the broad strokes of how it works. 1.1.) Copyrights First and foremost: Licensing is all about copyrights. The most important thing to remember is that there are differences in National...

The Ethics of Scanslation - A Treatise by BlackAeronaut 0.) Preamble I've done what I can with regards to research for this article. That said, if anyone has any information that contradicts what I present here, please do say something. I will amend the article to correct anything that is...

Pretty sure this is due to the massive wave of DMCA takedowns MD got. As I've said elsewhere, the thing is that, sure, publishers hate piracy. But you know what they hate even more? People making money off of the content that the publisher has legally licensed. And as such, they will always...

Kogane and company all gonna be coming in like... (I will never get tired of using this clip.)

It just feels that way because of the slow releases by the scanslators. We're something like ten or so chapters behind in the raws. Near as I can figure, the point is that they're trying to get Kousuke to seed their genepool, both literally and figuratively. I think their world was...

The fact that this is still on MD's front page despite having it's chapters pulled by the staff is saying otherwise. Besides, having the MC buff the all-female party by painting on their skin... I've seen things where they enchant items by drawing seals or writing the spells onto them. But...

Thank you so very much for bunking all that screeching with in-story plot points and metaknowledge. It gets so irksome seeing these kinds of reactions when there's been plenty of in-story anecdotal evidence that, yes, this is a thing that's very possible, and their reaction is nothing more than...

They're showing an example of the censorship they're trying to get around. Notice that the speech bubbles in the translated version are not the same as the original? It's an absolute travesty.