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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-06-08 16:30
Japanese and U.S. Publishers Form Coalition Against Scanlations
* Written by Humberto Saabedra on June 8, 2010 at 9:21 am|Email
Publishers Weekly reports that the 36 member Japanese Digital Comic Association and U.S. manga publishers Vertical Inc, Viz Media, Tokyopop and Yen Press have banded together under a new coalition to address the issue of online scanlations and aggregator sites such as OneManga and MangaFox that illegally distribute unofficial and official translations of copyrighted titles, many currently licensed in the U.S. by the aforementioned publishers.
The issue has recently become a polarizing topic with the increasing popularity of devices such as the iPhone and iPad, with many developers uploading apps that provide access to manga aggregators without the proper licensing to do so, which has had the effect of the App Store rejecting legitimate applications developed by book publishers on the basis of duplicate content.
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They think they can stop us.
All they can do is shut down these easy access sites. We'll just turn to IRC and Torrents instead.
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EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-06-08 16:44
Those sites only host the manga, lol.
It does nothing at stopping the scanlations, which are usually done by low-key groups anyways.
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Magenera wrote on 2010-06-08 16:45
What are they *****ing about now, people still buy manga. The very same people who reads the manga buys them, wasted effort. And the ones who, scans them, buys them also. The only difference is that, we get more variety, and be up to date with the Comics oversees. Again wasted effort
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Phunkie wrote on 2010-06-08 16:46
Aw, boo. These organizations need to STFU and let us enjoy their darn mangas.
It pisses me off to see Youtube taking down AMVs and videos just because they have a song in them. Ugh.
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Forsaken wrote on 2010-06-08 20:49
Quote from Margatroid;57417:
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They think they can stop us.
All they can do is shut down these easy access sites. We'll just turn to IRC and Torrents instead.
I love how the distributors never make mention of the horrible translations that come to the US from official translations.
Just like with dubbed anime, or subbed official animes, the companies do a HORRIBLE job, whereas fansubs tend to have a better quality (At least so far as the actual translations, and legibility).
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Chiri wrote on 2010-06-08 20:55
I think many scanlating groups would be glad if onemanga and mangafox were shut down.
Aggregator sites take the work of scanlators (available for free), compress the images down and cause jpg artifacts, and host them on sites that have ads, thereby making money. And then they go and ask for donations.
I scanlate [editing] so its a bit of a sensitive topic.
Scanlation itself won't be stopped, but fans might have to stop being lazy and seek out the proper channels on IRC.
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Akemisumi wrote on 2010-06-08 21:13
They can get rid of well-known hosting sites, but that won't totally stop it. Like what Margatroid said, we'll just find it elsewhere. ._.
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Vinhthehero wrote on 2010-06-08 21:48
If you know the scanlation group then you can visit their websites for the scanlations. They can't stop scanlations and they STILL can't stop anime fansubs.
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ZazieTheBeast wrote on 2010-06-09 01:56
they should probably try copying all the fansubbers, rather than complain and try to shut down all these people
if people who dont get paid and have other stuff to do in life can get good quality subs of manga and anime out within hours of it being released, then why cant they do a better job of it
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-06-09 02:01
Most Scanlations are non profit
with donations as an option
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Chockeh wrote on 2010-06-09 02:16
Please don't shut down my scans :[.
I wouldn't even of discovered manga and buy your damn volumes if it wasn't for the scans D:.
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Hiccup wrote on 2010-06-09 02:17
I dun read manga online soz
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Forsaken wrote on 2010-06-09 02:27
Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;58063:
Most Scanlations are non profit
with donations as an option
They charge if you're making a request however.
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Axx wrote on 2010-06-09 03:20
If you averaged 8 chapters and $10 a volume, then even (extremely) conservatively I've read $2,500 worth of free manga. This bothers me a little, but it's countered by the fact that without scanlations (and aggregator sites) I'd never have read (or even known) them in the first place. I'm almost driven to buy a little of my favorite series to support them a bit, but when it's available for free then when you throw out the ethics issues, it's like throwing away money. Leading to only wanting to throw away money for the really really good ones.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-06-09 03:59
I buy a volume of two of my favorites to show my support.
Unfortunately most of my favorites never make it to America.
Anyways, one of the large reasons why people don't use the official release isn't because it costs money. Its because they come out months after the scanlations, and often times at a worse quality (refer to tokyopop, they do a horrendous editing job).
If fans doing it for free can work 3 times faster and make it twice as decent in quality without a payroll, then these people have absolutely no excuses for themselves.
Afterall, this is a CAPITALIST nation, not a POINT FINGERS AND HIDE BEHIND THE COPYRIGHT SHIELDS nation.
I would sign up for my favorite manga magazines if the English translations would come out at the same time of the Japanese one. Which is not impossible, since they have each chapter for a long time before actually publishing it.