Dex-chan lover
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It's exactly because of the popularity of manga in general that this is happening: There's Money In It nowadays.it is kind of amazing that the free translations popularity seems to somewhat determine what series companies pick up and then they go after the translators for translating what is popular before them. Sure it ain't legal, but just like music, people pirate what they aren't willing to pay for.
And the Lawyers don't care... They'll get their pound of flesh either way...
Now.... If the official translated manga weren't generally as badly translated as the average MTL here, and their "publishers" not just gouging the "market" for what they hope to get away with...
But the price/quality of most "official" releases are so ulcer-inducing I happily hoist the Jolly Roger.
Now if there were a way to legally support the authors and mangakas... that'd be another matter.. But that would have the publishing houses up in arms, because that would make the actual content creators more independent of them...
Can't have the public upsetting the apple cart now, can we?