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NEWS: App Puts Unauthorized Manga Scans on iPhone, iPad

malik_chan wrote:

I don't get why anyone would want to read manga on the iPhone or any other smart phone. A full page can't be read without the words blurring and becoming to small to read, and scrolling is pain in the rear when zoomed in.

My guess is it's the advent of the iPad that is prompting this. I wouldn't want to read or watch anything on an iPhone etc. but on an iPad? Sure! In fact, some comic book companies are looking into legally distributing their issues this way and saving some costs on printing etc.

Just downloaded the app and suggested it to all of my friends. Thanks for the tip, ANN!

Now now, if you're going to troll at least try to be believable. Nobody's going to buy that you have friends!

"...we are already in the process of contacting Apple to request the removal of the application until such time as our content has been removed."

Yen Press, VIZ, TokypPop, and DelRay should pay "Not A Basement Studio" for the app. It is the manga and manhaw publishers fault for not being proactive about technology. The companies are slow to adopt new technology which makes them slow to adapt to the ever changing world of technology.

Not sure if the companies are leaders where anime and manga are concern but the thieves sure have talents, skills, and leadership where all things consider. Also, the thieves have guts for pulling this stunt.

It's a little more complicated than that. While the US companies might see the crowd they can target with this variety of digital distribution, it's worth questioning whether or not they can make a long term profit off of just ads and the initial fee. On top of that, licensing the title doesn't automatically mean the company has the rights to distribute it digitally as well, and I'm certain the Japanese companies are very cautious about giving this the okay.

You know what, that makes perfect sense. Lets pay people for stealing things! I mean, why wait and work for a legitamate system where everyone is awarded the same thing at the same time when we can just screw ourselves over in the long run and pay the people that rip you off! Its the greatest idea in the history of mankind I think...

Point taken. That's why I said the companies are never forward thinkers or innovators about their products. The idea of free needs to go to the wastebasket because people should be charged for a service they use. By charging people for products or services, it says the product or service has some value to it.

sdhd wrote:

Point taken. That's why I said the companies are never forward thinkers or innovators about their products. The idea of free needs to go to the wastebasket because people should be charged for a service they use. By charging people for products or services, it says the product or service has some value to it.

Here's the problem with the "give jobs to the thieves and let them run things" idea: once those thieves get those jobs (which are already being done by professionals who worked hard to get said jobs) then some other group of self-worshipping, proudly misanthropic teens will take their place and again do what they're doing for free and the cycle continues.

That cycle needs to be broken and the law at some point needs to be enforced even a little bit. Descending into anarchy and destroying an entire art form and industry in the name of some misguided sense of "I'm a noble thief who's showing the industry how it's done!" or a "because I can do it, that means I'm entitled to do it" attitude is not progress, it's destruction.

Uh, old news? There have been a number of apps like this on the iPhone and Android. Every time someone gets one taken down, another is put up within a few days. It's been going since at least last summer.

I am not saying what the thieves did is right. There are two separate issues such as the technology and the scanlation. The scanlation is the illegal part. The technology of the app is probably illegal too since it was used for the wrong purpose.