STOP! PIRACY - Vol. 1 Ch. 5

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So, I bought some stuff on DLsite last year and few months ago, the seller basically close shop and removed all of his products from shelf.

Here I thought that this doesn't concern me since I already what they sell in my account. Turn out once the product has been removed from shelf my copy will no longer accessible I shit you not.

And they say piracy is bad when playing by the rules get you screwed.
 
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So, I bought some stuff on DLsite last year and few months ago, the seller basically close shop and removed all of his products from shelf.

Here I thought that this doesn't concern me since I already what they sell in my account. Turn out once the product has been removed from shelf my copy will no longer accessible I shit you not.

And they say piracy is bad when playing by the rules get you screwed.
Digital license =/= ownership.
 
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the authors are hexing us now
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460 yen is $2.91 right now. The cheapest manga on a shelf I can find is $10 at Barnes and noble. I don't know as well with digital, but it's usually $7-$9. I can bet the money I save by not being able to buy the manga I want because they copywrote it and kept it digital that they also use machine translation for the legal translation
 
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460 yen is $2.91 right now. The cheapest manga on a shelf I can find is $10 at Barnes and noble. I don't know as well with digital, but it's usually $7-$9. I can bet the money I save by not being able to buy the manga I want because they copywrote it and kept it digital that they also use machine translation for the legal translation
My money is only for gacha pulls you know?
 
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460 yen is $2.91 right now. The cheapest manga on a shelf I can find is $10 at Barnes and noble. I don't know as well with digital, but it's usually $7-$9. I can bet the money I save by not being able to buy the manga I want because they copywrote it and kept it digital that they also use machine translation for the legal translation
When I went to Japan, in any book shop you could buy like 5 volumes of a manga for around 5 bucks, I got Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu for almost that. Its actually pretty cheap to buy non-digital.
But then when you try to buy something translated, holly shit, anything in Spain brought by those "big" companies, for only a volume it could go for more than 15 bucks.
 
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When I went to Japan, in any book shop you could buy like 5 volumes of a manga for around 5 bucks, I got Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu for almost that. Its actually pretty cheap to buy non-digital.
But then when you try to buy something translated, holly shit, anything in Spain brought by those "big" companies, for only a volume it could go for more than 15 bucks.
The usual price for manga volumes here in Spain ranges from 8€ to 15€ (at least from what I've seen)... :notlikethis:
But well, I'm kinda thankful there are stores like Fnac that offer discounts to members (even their 5% discount is nice to have if you constantly buy books and manga volumes like me...)
 
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Companies hate this one trick! Did you know a lot of libraries have manga sections and you can check them out, for free?!
 
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So, I bought some stuff on DLsite last year and few months ago, the seller basically close shop and removed all of his products from shelf.

Here I thought that this doesn't concern me since I already what they sell in my account. Turn out once the product has been removed from shelf my copy will no longer accessible I shit you not.

And they say piracy is bad when playing by the rules get you screwed.
Digital license =/= ownership.
Necroing cause of GachaDex taking me to this hilarious mango if buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing.
Forget not that DLsite recently made a deal with the devils who had hypocritcally prevented 30% of the potential revenue source their creators were supposed to get...the result is 30% of the potential revenue source for some creators is no longer available.

Another on the ever growing pile of bones in Davy Jones' gym locker,proof that the only way to beat the landlubbers on these high seas is to sail them,show them just how much of a scurvy dog one gets when forced closer to the edge of the plank.

Whatever you pay for online,ensure you have an offline copy stored such that it can't be deleted,and if there's something you especially want to keep safe despite not paying for it,make offline copies of that too.
 
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Forget not that DLsite recently made a deal with the devils who had hypocritcally prevented 30% of the potential revenue source their creators were supposed to get...the result is 30% of the potential revenue source for some creators is no longer available.

Another on the ever growing pile of bones in Davy Jones' gym locker,proof that the only way to beat the landlubbers on these high seas is to sail them,show them just how much of a scurvy dog one gets when forced closer to the edge of the plank.

Whatever you pay for online,ensure you have an offline copy stored such that it can't be deleted,and if there's something you especially want to keep safe despite not paying for it,make offline copies of that too.
If they nuke shota too then yaoi will take a big fat L to the face indirectly (for a sample reference, shota yaoi is like 1/3 of the amount of pages yaoi has on hitomi.la)
 
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So, I bought some stuff on DLsite last year and few months ago, the seller basically close shop and removed all of his products from shelf.

Here I thought that this doesn't concern me since I already what they sell in my account. Turn out once the product has been removed from shelf my copy will no longer accessible I shit you not.

And they say piracy is bad when playing by the rules get you screwed.
Ayyyy, unfortunate
 

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