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NEWS: 3 Men Arrested for Uploading One Piece Chapter to English Website (Updated)

Tylerr wrote:

what malware? From ads? adblock plus solves that.

Noobs these days... too lazy to even know that.

Whatever, people in japan that help spread the love...need to know they MUST and SHOULD use a VPN to reduce risks.

Tylerr wrote:

what malware? From ads? adblock plus solves that.

Noobs these days... too lazy to even know that.

Whatever, people in japan that help spread the love...need to know they MUST and SHOULD use a VPN to reduce risks.

I feel bad for them. They were doing good for the community. Luckily piracy isn't killed so easily.

Good. There is no grey area here, illegal is illegal. They need to get to the one who leaks Jump several days ahead of release, too.

Revolutionary wrote:

Good. There is no grey area here, illegal is illegal. They need to get to the one who leaks Jump several days ahead of release, too.

"illegal is illegal." I'm sure they said the same thing about the underground railroad.

Drunk Samurai wrote:

Revolutionary wrote: Good. There is no grey area here, illegal is illegal. They need to get to the one who leaks Jump several days ahead of release, too. "illegal is illegal." I'm sure they said the same thing about the underground railroad.

What? You can't seriously be saying that it should be perfectly legal to leak something you don't own the copyright to, to then make a profit off it and then to potentially deprive the creator and publisher (the people that actually spent their hard earned money and time creating it) of their deserved money?

Not only is it seriously immoral to take his work without paying, but it's also selfish. If they don't make any money, how are they supposed to invest in future manga series or pay the people that create the manga you supposedly enjoy reading? You will only bite yourselves in the arse, such a shame you have to take everyone else with you...

Drunk Samurai wrote:

Revolutionary wrote: Good. There is no grey area here, illegal is illegal. They need to get to the one who leaks Jump several days ahead of release, too. "illegal is illegal." I'm sure they said the same thing about the underground railroad.

What? You can't seriously be saying that it should be perfectly legal to leak something you don't own the copyright to, to then make a profit off it and then to potentially deprive the creator and publisher (the people that actually spent their hard earned money and time creating it) of their deserved money?

Not only is it seriously immoral to take his work without paying, but it's also selfish. If they don't make any money, how are they supposed to invest in future manga series or pay the people that create the manga you supposedly enjoy reading? You will only bite yourselves in the arse, such a shame you have to take everyone else with you...

If not for piracy, manga and anime would be in a different place entirely in the west. Crunchyroll started out as an illegal site. Manga especially. It's all well and good if you can read Japanese, but if you can't then limiting yourself to only licensed manga that is still readily available for purchase places a huge limitation on what you can read in a medium you supposedly enjoy.

Compared to Japan where you can check several series out in cheap magazines, I feel like I'd be the one getting cheated out of my money if I had to buy a full volume (again more expensive than in Japan) of every single series I wanted to check out. And what about licensed, incomplete series dead in the water? Tough luck, I guess. But at least Amano's getting her money when someone decides to not buy or read Aria.

For the record I have volumes 1-6 with vol.4 missing, but I bought them used. Now I don't know what the people I bought them off of did with the money, but they probably didn't go to Amano or any publisher involved. I read the rest of it elsewhere and supposedly enjoyed biting myself in the arse.

More on-topic, IIRC mangapanda is one of the biggest offenders in topaz-abuse. I hope they crash and burn.

Trysail wrote:

If not for piracy, manga and anime would be in a different place entirely in the west. Crunchyroll started out as an illegal site. Manga especially. It's all well and good if you can read Japanese, but if you can't then limiting yourself to only licensed manga that is still readily available for purchase places a huge limitation on what you can read in a medium you supposedly enjoy. Compared to Japan where you can check several series out in cheap magazines, I feel like I'd be the one getting cheated out of my money if I had to buy a full volume (again more expensive than in Japan) of every single series I wanted to check out. And what about licensed, incomplete series dead in the water? Tough luck, I guess. But at least Amano's getting her money when someone decides to not buy or read Aria. For the record I have volumes 1-6 with vol.4 missing, but I bought them used. Now I don't know what the people I bought them off of did with the money, but they probably didn't go to Amano or any publisher involved. I read the rest of it elsewhere and supposedly enjoyed biting myself in the arse. More on-topic, IIRC mangapanda is one of the biggest offenders in topaz-abuse. I hope they crash and burn.

The manga in question, One Piece, has a legal English simulpub, that can be picked up in all English-speaking territories for $0.99 as part of Viz's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.

You want to justify piracy to yourself, go for it , but none of the excuses you've made apply to One Piece.

Good
The topic of copyright infringement ethics aside, Mangapanda's a bottom of the barrel level option for desperate people lowering themselves a fair amount. Seriously, it takes swallowing quite a bit of one's pride to willingly consume such poor output.