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Or you can bookmark them to your browser, lol. I'm surprised no one has even mentioned this.
The above is a part of an ancient list from a looooong time ago when I still loved to kiss manga. Of course, now I do more than just kissing, i.e. I have manga *ex
Kissmanga and kissanime are gone but do you guys know that Kisshentai is still alive? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Regarding Japan's revised anti-online piracy law, just read a shit-ton of legal documents from the
Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan and I can confirm: from the legal point of view, this revision has virtually no direct impact on the current state of mangadex whatsoever.
To be more specific, the new law only tightens the ban on (1) DOWNLOADING pirated manga, magazines, etc. or (2) OPERATING leech websites or apps with LINKS to download said contents. Tightening here means they introduce specific penalties for those offences: jail, millions of Yen fines, loss of the otaku title, among other things...
Now, with respect to the question: "How does this affect MD?":
(1) Downloading? - Nope, it's the scanlators that download contents, not MD. MD only hosts uploaded pirated contents, which is already banned years ago anyway, so no direct impact.
(2) Operating leech websites? - Nope, MD does not collect and present download links to pirated contents, MD already hosts the contents anyway..., so no direct impact.
So here we are, the direct threats to MD's existence do not increase at all from this new law. MD is still being glared at by publishers as usual. However, from my humble knowledge, I can see a notable indirect impact: The fact that they introduce this law means they're getting more serious in controlling piracy and that could only lead to more bad news in the future. Nonetheless, as long as there are other countries that don't care about piracy as much as Japan (and I know a lot don't), MD will still probably be fine in the near future.
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