@Dao_Quan:
What do you mean another group scanlated this? I see nothing but Meraki's scans on the internet. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Also, I think you're tinfoil-hatting a bit hard, here: Pretty much nobody gets into scanlating manga for profit. I mean, hypothetically speaking, even if they did walk away with ad money, it would be a way-below-minimum-wage job...? If it were that easy to make a profit of a few comics, the real publishing companies would use the ad-based model more often. It's generally aggregator sites that are in it for the money, using the sheer mass of ripped mangas to generate enough reading activity to have ads generate a profit (mangadex is supposed to be the exception to such profiteering, incidentally, that's basically it's
raison d'etre).
@sefie:
...This is much-belated and probably of no interest to you at this point, but it should be said for the sake of completeness that the quarrel between mangadex and the scanlators is mostly a clash of egos and I think has more to do with dignity and comparatively little to do with any actual injuries suffered, though Mangadex's "opt-in only" form of group release control (that is, by default ignoring scanlator's re-hosting policies unless they make a Mangadex account and plead to take control of their group's releases) definitely started things with some actual harm and bad blood with certain groups.
