@simca27
"I'm sorry you have no legal right over the series."
We never claimed to have legal right over the series (or any series under WCP). I don't fully understand how your pulling/twisting our use of the word unauthorized into "Hey! You're legally not allowed to be releasing this chapter; we own the rights and have the authors blessing!" when in reality it's more "Hey! We're still actively releasing the series with the original scanlators (RMT) permission. We never dropped the series."
I'll see if I can modify the word choice since I hope that's not how it's coming across for others.
" release without permission from the current holder of the series" ? dont you know that scanlating is pirating already ? and that you have no right over the original work ? " unauthorized chapter " ? once again => from who ?
Readmanga.Today is the current group that has been releasing BTTH chapters for a very long time; and they allowed us to work alongside them. It wouldn't be right for another group to just come in a swoop in and start working on that series.
I didn't intend for it to be read in that way; but now I'm starting to think the message speaks more to scanlators than it does readers. In scanlation we have an unspoken rule to never Hijack another series aggressively
and if a group does do that; they're usually shamed among us. I'm glad we decided to withhold the groups name since we only just found out from the group that they only intended for it to be released on their blog.
It was actually a reader that uploaded the chapter to mangakalot and not the group which released the chapter publicly. Regardless of this fact-
Readmanga.Today has full honor 'invisible' rights
(unsure how to write this to you) to decide who can work on the series and who cannot for English releases; because they've been releasing chapters for it for a very long time. I'm not saying they own the legal rights; but ultimately BTTH has been translated, proofreadied, typeset, and uploaded by Demonic Scanlations (absorbed into us), Readmanga.Today, and then White Cloud Pavilion. You're suppose to ask another group who is actively releasing a series if they're willing to drop a series officially. Neither RMT or WCP has done this and thus other groups should respect the unspoken rules.
I will probably write an update on the next chapter to clear things up with better word choice.
last but nonetheless => you releasing those chapter in the flash mean only one thing => the chapter were ready, you just refused to release them because you are after the money from your patreon and were waiting for them to pay more before releasing it !
False. I want to make it known that the chapter we just released was in no way ready and had only just finished being translated this morning. It was after we discovered the chapter to be released publicly (after RMT contacted and informed us) did we 'rush' the release. Normally- 235 would hit our patron mangareader and then push out after a single week since the series is on Active Status (fast release track). We would then have 236 pushed out to patrons and 235 would release to the public.
We release more than 30 chapters a month for the past 2 years. October 2018 we released 36 total chapters. I can assure you that each chapter you read for BTTH is paid for (Operating, Translating, Proofreading, Typesetting, and even uploading to patron mangareaders, and the public.
Every single position is paid. The more you support- the more we release.
Feel free to join our discord (at the bottom) and ask more questions about how we operate. I'm sure it would be an eye opening experience and you'd see us in a better light.
Public discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/zgzmV6y