Japanese Manga Industry preparing to go after International Manga Sharing Sites

[Morose]

As per NHK Report, Japanese Manga Industry preparing to go after International Manga Sharing Sites, and is seeking for urgent counter measures to shut down sites & apps but by exposing the operators as well.

Source:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1772541538129653802

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240324/k10014401141000.htmlXNuR

 

[Arin-san]

Those tech illiterate fools have been trying to stop manga piracy since as long as I can remember. Nothing will change.

I'm more interested in the 300 manga piracy sites which are directed at Japanese. It has been a struggle ever since mangamura fell

 

[Justice88]

The country, that only recently stopped using floppy diskettes, will definitely kick my online ass.

directed at Japanese

Such is the piracy sites, local ones always do more copyright infringement.

 

[cash5891]

"... & other SEA countries." You mean the countries where bootleg DVDs and cracked apps are still being sold openly in markets and shopping malls? Where "legit" copies of popular office/creative/productivity apps are sold freely on local e-commerce sites for a fraction of their US prices? Where most if not all local comic publishing companies (who used to publish popular Japanese manga under proper licensing in the 90s and early 00s) are all but dead thanks to the all the aggregate sites? Those countries?

Man, I could really use some of whatever they're smoking over there in Japan. Might be something imported from Korea.

 

[TestAddress]

So... Japan will shoot Mangadex in the head? Digitally of course.

Maybe literally ... using robo-dogs.

 

[Devourer]

gotta go to war with japan again this time over manga

 

[Blocky_Mudkip]

gotta go to war with japan again this time over manga

So that's what fed kun's army means

 

[Trobilobada]

It's over for Tristan-chan. 👨‍🦼

 

[phil777]

Well, if I wanna read something in French and it's not translated by an official translator, who is gonna really complain if a translation group does it for free? A lot of mangas would otherwise not even be known in the West if it wasn't for TL groups.

 

[araya_tatsuya]

japan can go f themselves. i like supporting artist directly [for context i have subbed to 3 jp manga artists on twitch, same with about 4 mangaka and a couple of illustrators on fanbox.] piracy is bad notion for manga doesnt make sense . seriously guys how many of the titles youre currently reading would you really pay for? . in my case i would pay for 3 out of the 10 titles i currently read. so me reading it doesnt harm the industry in the first place as i have no intention of buying them. publishers need to get out of the every time a manga is read on a pirate site = no of sales lost mindset. also how many titles would get an official translation . only the popular stuff get them and also the subscription prices are shit. this isnt the time where you need printing costs and stuff like that. so the profit accumulates with the publisher.

piracy is bad

yeah ok i agree when its affordable and easily available but otherwise nah bro

 

[NEOO_]

japan should make manga more accessable, make a STEAM version but for manga,

like a site or downloadable platform with a community and everything exactly like steam etc,
webtoons had a much better model than this

 

[Kiaos]

I think mangadex should just start buying licenses and do what cr did. Start out small at first and make a small sub for only the licensed content. I would rather read on this site because the interface is better than j novel and other official ones that are linked.