Thats the thing i wan others to realize. So long as the rips arent pay walled no company is going out of their way to sue you since transformative content is a really muddle area that no company is going to waste time and money for. Even then if they do file a case theres a chance their claims is just gonna get thrown anyways meaning the time and effort they put in will go nowhere and their time is better spent elswhere.TFW no qt dragon girl to nuzzle you and tell you how much she loves you (as a friend).
Your lawyer friend is partly right.
One of the defenses against DMCA is fair use parody and "transformative content" which SL is not, but it is not a clear-cut obvious distinction. When there is no profit motive or competing product (that is, no obvious injury) it makes things even more muddy. This means most rights holders will not go through the hoops and expense needed to try to enforce their rights internationally.
The pay-walled SL groups however have a very clear and distinct profit motive, which makes it easier to convince a court that you have been injured; someone is making money off your shit and its not you. How this affects MD is that if Greedy Dildo-face Scans has a bunch of pay-wall content, and the rights owner comes after them, the rights holders have a bunch of specific files they can search for, request removal, and see what else is out there.
Hosting this files puts MD in a much more legally precarious situation for further action. That is, MD is already found to be hosting infringing content so claims that other hosted content is infringing will carry more weight.
So, MD would still be open for DMCA, but what would unlikely would be publishers having a solid internationally-bullet proof case of "These files were made by groups charging for access to them or straight rips of our official TL" and fallout from that case affecting MD.
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Think twice lil gup, MTLed, without any knowledge of Japanese, fonts and typesetting all over the place, no redraws, no QC and all of that for small price of 0,70$ PER PAGE. All of that cheap and low quality crap for almost 15 bucks per chapter xDpost the rest of the chapters before this one, then I'll think about supporting you
What a jump 3 to 15 lmao
Nah man, fonts may not be the best but there is no need to be extra harsh. Just talking about it is enough. Remember that you get to read these chapters freely cause someone did put in the effort to translate it without pay walling it.Well isn't that a trifecta of suck...
Look, I get I really do. Life is hard all around, and nothing is truely free. But m8, the product you put out can be reproduced by any monkey and a chat bot.
- A large gap in untranslated chapters
- The fonts and typesetting is crap and all over the place
- And the TL splash page makes it obvious you expect to be paid for amateur MTL work
Unless you speak French, then, it's a mere jump from 13 to 15HON HON HON !!!