What do you think about scanlators who are hording a lot of series and hiding the recent chapters on their site behind paywalls.

[asphyxiav2]

I'm thinking about what is the general opinion about scanlators who are hoarding tons of manga and intentionally slow updates to promote advanced chapters on their site behind a paywall.

 

[KATCRX]

 

[kn4ll]

Hate them with passion.

 

[gooberthefish]

kill them,burn them,send em to brazil,cut off their balls do it use whatever you need and kill them

 

[ChocoPies]

I still hate them less than the ones like Lua Comic who leave huge chapter gaps on purpose to get people to visit their malware trash sites. Might just block them.

 

[Kincyr]

I've noticed that two of them (arvencomics.com and asmotoon.com) have near-identical frontends, identical site currencies, and word-for-word identical DMCA pages, both lacking an actual email address where they state they have a designated copyright complaint agent

 

[orechan]

pretty scummy practice in my opinion

 

[EchoGirl]

Other than the official webtoons themselves the paywall lock is annoying. And suspicious when like 4 of them do the exact same series at once lol (and i've seen some where a lot of ppl say they are a scam/where they did pay and still didn't get recompensated or so)

i mean, i'm surprised more ppl haven't been petty and contacted Naver/Kakao/etc and all the korean sites for their dmcas or so, i know a couple sites got shut down but i suppose some prolly would just change their names. I know Realm had some issues so they became Rizz Fables but ironically they're the only long-strip/Korean webtoon site that DOESN'T lock their chapters behind a paywall

But other than being like 20 chapters ahead or so they def shouldn't charge when a series gets an 'official' English b/c at least on Webtoon (as far as i know) the 'coins' you spend do go to the author as well (plus the app does actually let you read some chapters if you play an ad versus like mobile games that rly push you to pay), it does seem at least that MD seems to have put an 'upload freeze' on most of them

 

[WojtekTheCat]

Isn't it even more illegal? Like we all know fan translations of manga are a very grey area on thin ice but putting those stuff behind paywall? Yikes. At most i can understand some tipping page like kofi like i had seen for jdrama fansubbers. (The closest thing i saw like this for jdrama fansub community is patreon where the subber releases the subs earlier than for "general" public on website)

 

[anonaddict]

hate them with a passion. genztoons unfortunately is the only site translating A Real Man but they often go a month without unlocking any new chapters

 

[KiotheFrail]

I'm thinking about what is the general opinion about scanlators who are hoarding tons of manga and intentionally slow updates to promote advanced chapters on their site behind a paywall.

A private execution would be too kind. Public instead.

 

[Angry_Panda]

I think they're now being shown the door.

 

[Angry_Panda]

FYI, from a comment in the Discord support channel by one of the mods:

Paywall -> Nuke
Coins -> Nuke
"Sub for better quality images" -> Nuke
Infinite delay -> Group unlock + GL removal to avoid locking
Has "support us" links to third party monetisation websites (e.g., Ko-fi, Patreon, Buymeacoffee, etc.) but no paywall of any kind -> Mean stares but allowed

May not cover 100% of all cases, but should provide a good starting point.

 

[Grogzilla]

 

[Angry_Panda]

But we do appreciate your efforts.

Well,  some of us do.

Probably more than just me.

I hope.

 

[Ochrolv]

FYI, from a comment in the Discord support channel by one of the mods:

May not cover 100% of all cases, but should provide a good starting point.

Is that why KDT SCANS is mass uploading a bunch of their translations these past few days & also the reason Asmodeus Scans' translations got purged from the site? I also noticed the already banned groups like UTOON had their previous translations be purged all of a sudden. I don't use really use Discord but did they mention why they're changing their methods? I really should get a tracker in lieu of relying on memory.

 

[Angry_Panda]

did they mention why they're changing their methods?

I have not seen anything from MD on this, and I'll keep my guesses to myself at this point.