They seem to be unhappy with the way this publisher profits. This is outside the scope of our responsibility, as we are impartial to their business model. If people themselves are in disagreement on whether their practice is sound or not, how can we be in a place to decide whether to display them on our site or not based on it?
If the community doesn't like how an uploader does business or the quality of the upload it is up to you as the site staff to either prevent them from uploading or otherwise appease the community not hide behind platitudes and ignore it.
I have to say that, even as one of the ones vehemently against JNC I think the mangadex team are doing the right thing. JNC has a legal control over their series and there's not really anything MD can do about that beyond informing their users that JNC has the license and showing them the links, especially since JNC could issue takedowns to scanlators and then MD users may be unable to find the series they like to read.
We're not quality police, and we don't apply either of those concepts to scanlators either, let alone an official publisher. JNC are official English licensors and you can read the linked chapters for free - there is no downside to users to providing these links.
What?
What? No group or individual "owns" titles on MD. Unless you are talking about how they legally licensed the work from the original publisher.
That would kind of be the ultimate goal. The whole point of mangadex adding links to freely available chapters from official publishers is to advertise ways to support publishers and ultimately the artists and authors of the works
Licensing fees from Japanese publishers vary wildly and you will likely never be able to find out the exact amount. Though the safe assumption would be "More popular more expensive to license".
What? Stop what? Lying about what?
