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Just thought this might be relevant.
Hundreds of thousands of netzens woke up on Christmas day or day after to find light novel websites taken down. China arrests light novel website operators whom hosted tens of thousands of official and unofficial translated Japanese light novels. How this political maneuver came about can only be speculated - a true desire on the Chinese government to trade with their Asian neighbour or shoring up success for another internal political struggle.
Many pirates lament the end of a golden age and are stashing whatever they can, some for the day when restrictions become lax again. The few connoisseurs who do buy the sanctioned version notes that it is only through the pirate version that they find things worth buying instead of risking their money on unproven oddities. All are praying for the website owners who over the years had cared for the literary thirst of their browsers.
This may result in many english and other language novel translations slowing down as the chinese translators will no longer have a crutch source and have to turn to the original Japanese source for their translations.
Speaking of which do we have a backup in case doujin hosting sites meet similar fates? Hoard everything on external hds for the day after the darkness when the pink rays can shine again.