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It's acatually true. Lmao, wtf.
Mangadex gets hit by DMCA - more than 25% of chapters gone | staff FAQ update
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Ya I don't know why it's the only text on the entire front page with that font color. Font should match and be bold/italicized.
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Obviously trying to hide it. Some kind of damage control.
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If they were trying to hide it, they wouldn't have announced the FAQ to their 60k+ member discord server.
Also it's already at the very bottom corner of the page. The text color doesn't actually do anything to hide it.
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More legal stuff added.
https://mangadex.org/compliance
https://mangadex.org/compliance/terms
Edit: Looks like I was a little late.
https://mangadex.org/compliance
https://mangadex.org/compliance/terms
Edit: Looks like I was a little late.
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Nothing else except downloading your favorite and/or rare series (no torrent available).Sadly as an end-user I don't really see anything that I can do
Subscribing isn't available as an option for me and only thing I can do is refuse to read from ad-ridden aggregator sites still. Tachiyomi-like apps are phone app only too...
Y'all got any ideas? Cause I'm all out atp
Torrent it, hopefully they're available in nyaa.si. This one probably the best since it's effortless and fast.
Download it from MangaDex (using HakuNeko) or Comick.io. A bit messier and slower, but might be your only option if there are no torrents about it.
Then view it with CDisplay, or a comic server like Komga.
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Damn that seems like a lot of investment except point 3.
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I personally don't find it easy to find most mangas outside of Japan. I feel like people are just parroting "amazon.co.jp", "auction sites", "forwarding services", etc. without actually ever using them to find and buy mangas.
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For physical manga I've mostly used cdjapan and Amazon. For digital I mostly used kobo. Mostly because it's easier to rip from. I haven't bought older stuff though.
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Asura literally just released "translations" for a new Kakao manhwa. Suspicious as fuck that Asura and the other shady manhwa "scanlators" are not targeted aggressively by Kakao and pals' DMCAs. Even if they keep making new website and discord, constant takedows will leave them with less and less readers. And more importanly, less money. Super suspicious.
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I'm not gonna lie, I'm emo about this. I only discovered this site less than a month ago and it's really more or less my ideal format/community. Humans are amazing and adaptable so we will run it back......... but it's a lot of work that's being lost. I don't want to lose this connection to a community I just found. :C
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Honestly? I say it's the opposite, not suspicious at all.
Chances are Asura and similar were smart enough to probably not directly pay for sites and such
So maybe Kakao doesn't really know identity of anyone involved
So they get hit by dmca? Just close the site to appease the publishers or it gets closed bu server or whatever
Then continue business as usual somewhere else
Sure Asura and such won't make as much money for a while
But they're still gonna make some money anyway
There will always be some people to pay for their translation
And then in time they make new site, paypal, patreon or whatever
Reason Mangadex is hit more aggressively is because they became too big and popular
Fact that owners tried to make money legitimally just makes laughably easy to attack them
After all that means someone name is attached to the site and so on
So they can't just change servers or whatever I guess
Either way I just hope Mangadex successor put the site in a country where they can ignore dmca
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Finally got around to writing an API client to analyze how bad it really is. Out of 672 titles I have on "reading" (mostly isekai trash ofc), 357 (53 %) where taken down. Granted, my checks aren't perfect (metadata is not a reliable way to check, would have to check chapter lists), but it still hurts.
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I suppose that if the music industry can destroy a free music website like Napster, which operated from 1999 to 2001, offering free music downloads to the masses, then it can also be expected to do the same to other platforms. I am surprised that Mangadex has lasted since 2018. In the case of Napster, it was the musicians and their record labels that brought forth a lawsuit in 2000. A DMCA takedown is a legal process by which copyright holders can request the removal of infringing content from websites. I only hope that publishers who do not publish their Manga in English will allow Mangadex or other fan-based sites to publish English-translated Japanese and Korean Manga.
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Looks like people don't discuss the DMCA event much any more. Here and elsewhere. I guess not making an announcement is the correct approach to let it die down quickly.
