As promised, the newly formed coalition of Japanese and US manga publishers has indicated it is pursuing legal action against major manga piracy and scanlation sites in defence of its copyrights.
The Digital Comic Association, a Japanese publisher group supposedly formed to promote digital sales but fast turning into the manga equivalent of the RIAA, has partnered with 4 top English language publishers to tackle a short-list of 30 problem sites.
Starting with the US sites, those who ignore legal warnings will be sued for damages and subjected to criminal charges where appropriate.
With the sites in question maintaining substantial server presences in the US (although at least one major network is managed by a shady Chinese company), it does not seem likely publishers will have much trouble shutting them down.
Publishers may be in for a rude awakening once they have taken down the major offenders – in lieu of a proper legal online alternative, a rush of freeloading manga fans to even more robust torrent sites seems the likely response, not a sudden rush to bookshops as publishers rather naively seem to hope.
looks like the jews are at it again.
There’s a logical reason for this, you know. Why would I buy a poorly edited, over-priced version of a manga I can read online with a better translation, as well as editors notes and cultural references that are usually excluded?
To make matters worse, depending on where you live, you can’t even buy manga in stores. There’s either no store within a reasonable distance, or it simply hasn’t been localized.
There’s a good phrase: “There are no Oceans on the Internet” Why should I wait a year or more for an officially translated copy of a manga chapter that was fan-translated the next day? You can’t hide behind foreign release dates any more.
Fucking bullshit! there’s nothing wrong with copying and sharing. It’s called FILESHARING NOT “PIRACY” you dumb publishing fucks! If i buy something i can AND WILL do as i please with it. If i want to copy it and share it with the world I CAN AND WILL DO SO! … the only thiefes here more often than not, end up being the dam publishers; and then they get on their moral high horse and tell people about morals… LOL!
In the U.S, I wouldn’t buy manga anyways, 90% of the time it’s been censored both physically and textually,they usually only carry stuff geared towards people under 16 to begin with and shove it off in the kids section.
Also the translations are usually localized to rather than getting a “Note”
some things going on in the story line get changed to buttfuckery or completely dropped.
All for a Five dollar price hike.
we dont have manga in our fucking country, my only legal manga i bought is one i found in an anime convention and it was EXPENSIVE about 50 dolars and it was little and the cover wasnt the hard kind, and that was like 4 years ago, now it must be like 120 dolars or something like that. the only way i have to get manga is online