Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[GlyphXion]

Can we just remove all manga on this website to be safe? Trust me as the voice of all readers when I say we really only want to read the latest high quality namicomi™️ slop. We don't even care about regular manga, I hear only pedophiles read that!

 

[Archhaven]

Wrong, this doesn't applies to fictional characters or anime/manga and is just reestablishing already existing laws because dumb fuck anime/manga IS protected under the First Amendment under the US.

Actually one of the major criticisms of the law is that it's language is EXTREMELY open ended, leaving it vulnerable to being exploited to charge people for content it shouldn't actually cover like anime/manga. The charge might not stand up in court, but that assumes the person they charge is actually financially able to fight the case.

 

[ShujixXChise]

For a bunch of the folks who keep insisting there are no laws against it, here's the Wikipedia overview on the legality of fictional pornographic works portraying minors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_pornography_depicting_minors

Are you retarded? fictional characters ARE protected under the First Amendment and your shitty wiki article has NOTHING to do with the topic we are talking about because in the real world we DON'T treat fictional anime/manga characters the same as REAL csem victim you dunce.

 

[xharuke]

Countries where Piracy is illegal:

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• Andorra
• Angola
• Antigua & Deps
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Australia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Belize
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bosnia Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Brunei
• Bulgaria
• Burkina
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Canada
• Cape Verde
• Central African Rep
• Chad
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Comoros
• Congo
• Congo {Democratic Rep}
• Costa Rica
• Croatia
• Cuba
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Djibouti
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• East Timor
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea
• Estonia
• Fiji
• Finland
• France
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Georgia
• Germany
• Ghana
• Greece
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Indonesia
• Ireland {Republic}
• Israel
• Italy
• Ivory Coast
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Korea North
• Korea South
• Kosovo
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macedonia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mali
• Malta
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mexico
• Micronesia
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Myanmar, {Burma}
• Namibia
• Nauru
• Nepal
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Nicaragua
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Norway
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palau
• Panama
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Qatar
• Romania
• Russian Federation
• Rwanda
• St Kitts & Nevis
• St Lucia
• Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• Sao Tome & Principe
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Solomon Islands
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Suriname
• Swaziland
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu
• Vatican City
• Venezuela
• Vietnam
• Yemen
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Chop Chop Mangadex admins! Comply with the laws.

 

[sillyangelboy]

Blatantly lying right to our faces. There is zero legal reason for you to remove any content. Absolutely none.

If it's the UK government that's causing problems, move out of the UK.

This content is legal in most countries, so move your servers to those countries.

America has very strong freedom of speech, so move your servers to America.

You are choosing to censor of your own free will, and then lying and shifting the blame.

Im not sure if moving servers to America would be a very good idea, it's still a grey area here as far as I'm aware.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1466A

I've heard that this has been challenged a few times, but I haven't been able to find too much information about how well it's enforced. Correct me if I'm wrong, though, because I'm not very savvy with this sort of thing.

 

[ShujixXChise]

Ignoring the fact that loli has been on MD for far longer than you've been around, uploaded by site owners themselves, where exactly is the line supposed to be now?

I mean To Love-Ru has the infamous reflections from Yabuki involving Mikan's privates. Are you going to be removing one of the most iconic shounen jump harem manga too?

This second part is also an issue, it seems you're quite judgemental and antagonistic to something that has been posted or translated by former or current MD owners or admins. I find it odd that instead of trying to be apologetic about something that is supposedly outside of your control you start antagonizing users over their complaints about the removal of titles that would've normally been allowed without a public facing change in policy.

Yeah and loli and lolicon has been the core of why anime/manga has gotten popular and anyone who doesn't respect the fandom should be thrown out in the trash like the tourist they are.

 

[cystericosis]

Aight, better make preparations to jump ship, I've been ignoring the symptoms for too long and it's all downhill from here. Next stop - straight up Lolicaust. Night of the Short Girls. The Shotah. The stroke to the heart attack that was the gigapurge.

 

[ShujixXChise]

If someone has a site they believe does a better job providing an overview on this topic, link it. I'd be interested to see it.

And i can do a better job by leaving people to enjoying loli and not being such a fucking sperg over fictional manga characters.

 

[deleted-user-dd180786b5]

Any additions or uploads to the service that are not compliant will be removed as we become aware of them.

As for the comment by the blue guy, read the Content Policy. It's there, has been for a while now.

Stop the misinformation. Titles being removed depict sexual activity between characters that are minors, either in appearance (handled on a case-by-case basis) or confirmed in the dialogue. It's about law and compliance with it. If you jerk it off to little kids, go and do it elsewhere; there are sites that specialise in that.

piracy is illegal too, pedo, when will you remove all the pirated works on the website.

 

[theblasblas]

Probably when Kentaro Miura's musty corpse climbs out of the grave and files the legal documents. Or maybe the publisher will do it 🤷‍♂️

Learn to read, this isn't about DMCA, but the fact that Berserk blatantly violates the websites rules much like all the other Titles that got removed recently. So what would legal documents even matter in this scenario?

Also, it's not cool to talk about Miura like that, you asshole.

 

[acalashrugged]

I remembered an alternative option to handle something like that.
Make an alt site called either Mangasex, Mangadex After Dark or something else to host the NSFW content while being connected to the main site. It's only accessible with a Mangadex Account with a certain amount of use and activity and hidden from search engines with a 403 forbidden, there is also no direct link from the main site or on the forum.
All non-advertiser friendly stuff goes there, and the main site stays clean and pristine like the devs seemingly want.

It's a proven solution that sadpanda took and people are fine with that

MANGASEX 😭😭😭
This happened because NC failed (and is always destined to fail) in reaching big audience numbers. That has always been MD's game -- MD has better reading view, better user experience overall, and a more established ORGANIC base. NC had endlessly-promoted teenage-self-healing-projects and curiously underpromoted actual gems and a clunkier UX. They ended up burning cash for easily-gamed monthly contests for stuff that were uploaded to their site solely for the sake of winning those contests. No retention because retention is organic and their definition of organic is fluffy-yet-passive-aggressive "community" on Discord and whatever the hell their Social tab was. So they decided to monetize MD too. Hence the "illegal" content hunt. That was exactly what one of NC's founders told me -- spicy cover arts might make their apps flagged or whatever. Toni, what's up, big dog?
To the friends-and-holding-in-UK: NC wouldn't have failed if you guys had promoted the better titles in there instead of doing whatever the fuck it was you guys did, but I've outgrown talking to walls, so who cares. It's been three years, I'm just glad there has come an actual proper time to finally vent.

 

[Heika]

Yes, much like you choose to follow laws instead of going to jail. Or how you choose to remove dozens of titles instead of blocking millions of users. Or how you choose to be obtuse about wording to post passive-agressive replies instead of using reasonable common sense interpratation.

Why do you keep talking about the law when every single piece of content on this site is hosted illegally? There is obviously another motivation behind it. Aside from actual CP, I doubt ThePirateBay gives many fucks about how the content of its torrents is affected by the laws of each country in the world.

 

[ShujixXChise]

my thoughts as someone with no stake in the argument: if loli/shotacon is the only thing holding this entire site together for you then maybe you should go to another site specifically designed for just that kind of content :?

No this site IS for lolisho you numb nuts because without lolisho anime/manga wouldn't exist and become popular to what it is today .

 

[ShujixXChise]

Pedoshit is beyond cringe but MangaDex going more and more the Crunchyroll route is very sad.
Thankfully there are other sites

Buddy you sound like your projecting, are you alright, should i help you check in to the local psych ward?

 

[ShujixXChise]

I know exactly where she's from my dude
Pedoshit is still disgusting shit my dude

C for effort I guess
Mangadex gets a Z- for going all in on becoming a social media hub. Fuck off with that, it's a site for pirated manga. Keep it that way.

Again YOU sound like your projecting buddy, do you need help are you lost, shouldn't you be in a psych ward?

 

[ShujixXChise]

Not what I said you daft twat?
Pedoshit is quite fucking obviously very underage kids and adults having relations - Kodomo no Jikan crap. Depicting romance among teens is an entirely different thing. Love is War or similar isn't.

Not a hard concept to grasp. Mangadex is quite fucking obviously getting rid of anything they can deem as ad-unfriendly content, in this case anything loli romance. The site has been in a steady decline for years and in the end we'll have to wait and see how harsly they'll treat any manga with a character being under the age of 18.

No buddy, you sound like a subversive paedophile projecting your pedophilia onto others because YOU can't separate fiction from reality.

https://imgur.com/a/UXOMzJC

 

[VinCnugh]

Registering here just to see the site burns.
Leaving my mark here so my name will be on the history book. 😏
I'm happy to see that the mods finally realized that piracy is illegal in every known countries and therefore will delete 99% of manga uploaded here.

 

[ShujixXChise]

Incorrect. For it has to be REAL HUMAN BEINGS to be "pedo shit". Fiction does not correlate reality. No legal text says that FICTION CONTENT is pedophilia. You should learn to distinguish fiction from reality, perhaps touch grass. Even 5 y.o. learning to distinguish both.

HERE HERE, good Sir HERE HERE.

 

[ShujixXChise]

Two points on this:
1. No one really wants to be the test case.
2. Have you seen the Supreme Court recently?

And the supreme court would tell you to fuck off and stop wasting their time over fiction buddy because they got crime to tackle... like dealing with actual real csem victim who are harmed by real paedophiles.

 

[WhiteRaven_OfTheValley]

Getting all the titles latest chapter noted manually is quite a task, but I'll get everything done eventually.

Even if i forgot and have to reread from beginning, i wouldn't mind still, because some series have a very wide upload gap so.