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BTW can’t stress enough how irrelevant this is. You don’t have to like that the DMCA takedown happened or that copyright laws exist but flaming someone for just pointing that out because like you’re bored and need a punching bag is just proving that anti-intellectualism thrives in these spaces...

Nah, just self-aware and paying attention. Actually said ‘we’ as in ‘we’re entitled pieces of shit’ more than once. No worries if you don’t wanna scroll back through 58 pages of comments, but like just to say hope your serving of crow is tasty. 🤷🏻

That piece is from 1980 before the advent of the internet as we know it and the 24hr news cycle. Might be comforting to think that it’s just America but it’s everywhere now—these forums are proof.

‘Remember that specific defense only works’—gurl, don’t need a lecture was just reporting back what was in other comments, in the end totally agree that whole legal fluff thing is bullshit. LikeManga monetized our shit and their ‘DMCA’ is ‘We don’t own anything we’re not selling something we...

Don’t beat yourself up here, it’s hard being Cassandra in the Void (heh. That would be an awesome manga title or a good band name)—particularly when there are like 55+ pages of comments. But yeah, there’s been a definite push to MTL by bigger publishers that I don’t love as someone who has...

Yep. It was removed as part of the recent DMCA takedown. The manga is still on hiatus, though, so nothing new lost.

Sometimes it’s another, third thing like our author didn’t have any interest in licensing because the story was too niche, like they literally tweeted about how they didn’t think anyone else would even read it. Might be Japanese publishers don’t feel confident would sell—which is, like, fair...

Hmmmm wonder if this is why all the stuff got pulled. Orange (not the animation studio the damn company pushing AI for translation) is the worst: https://x.com/mangaalerts/status/1927766220222128525?s=61

A lot of publishers do that first bit and it’s a good business model they just need to figure out the regions, payment, etc. Might just be resources, Crunchy shut down their comments because they didn’t want to put money into moderation (but also they were getting read for filth over the mail...

Everybody has feelings about this but seriously—save the insults and rhetoric for political discourse. Everyone in here is an entitled sack of shit so the surprise Pikachu face is so hypocritical—the DMCA takedown was warranted and totally justified because scanlations are point blank illegal...

No worries. Totally get that the rhetoric and insults you’re using in your responses are just a symptom of your feelings of helplessness and frustration. It is what it is. No worries. People who don’t have experience in publishing or other industries/professions/etc. can find it really easy to...

you’re doing the most here and I love that for you

ICYMI Yakuza Fiance went down as part of the DMCA sweep. Prolly for the best since we scanlated some stuff that was from Twitter and the uncensored chapter which kinda drew some attention, but it’s a bit disappointing to see it all gone. We’re regrouping and looking into forming an LLC so we can...

Exactly. Can’t wait for a legal chapter because we gotta have it now—we all have this thing, like we picked ours up when there was like a 6 month gap, just before it was licensed, took it over from the previous group, and ran with it because our raws provider insisted we were doing SO much...

Again, publishers pay authors an advance and the sales pay down the author’s debt. While you run through this argument in your head, you want to remember that publishers pay authors an advance—which the author then has to pay back in royalties, after which they see some cash themselves. Authors...

Honestly you’d have to be some special kind of asshole not to be conflicted. Scanlation is fun, but like we gotta disabuse ourselves of the notion we’re doing the lort’s work or whatever. You can’t make this argument and then go on to acknowledge the existence of MTL-ing because then it’s just...

Yeah, when you look at the timeline of when fan translations became a thing, like 50 years ago according to Wikipedia, it makes sense that passing these around would be helpful when resources were more limited—nobody would have imagined all the websites, payment platforms, methods of...

No, but it is going to result in a really boring game of whack-a-mole where the house always wins. Heard from someone who went legit that authorized fan translations are a thing—reaching out to an author and asking for permission. But like, you have to be prepared for a ‘no’ and to not be a dick...

Felt, but imagine for a second how well this attitude would play IRL with the implication that publishers are ‘asking for it’. Part of the reason this is all so easy is because we have no actual connection to the people and things we’re dealing with. Also felt, but at the same time publishers...

Aggregators (Bato, Mangaowl #rip, Mangago, LikeManga, etc.) put DMCA language on their site as a CYA move to avoid getting doxxed and sued that basically says ‘We don’t own this, we’re just reposting it from elsewhere’. Which is cute because ’DON’T REPOST’ pages exist? It‘s actually kinda weird...