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msgundam2
 Posts: 271 Location: Indiana USA |
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since The reason I buy anime and manga merchandise is because of scanlation and fansubs I should stop buying anime and manga From now on I'm getting free one way or another.
Last edited by msgundam2 on Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:08 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Hiyugi
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Yeah that's true. I know this is entirely different example, but you don't see American Comic Book publishers printing old comic books like Superman, Batman, X-Men or G.I.Joe books. And if that happened with some kind of huge graphic novel, they are not going to make many copies because it "might" have a huge fan base. I say that's just common sense. I guess the most rational thing for anybody to do is just read the synopsis about that title. At least that what I used to do when I couldn't find a copy. I sincerely do feel your pain though. |
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BorgmanJayce
 Posts: 298 Location: Hades via UK |
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The only way I'll support a legitimate digital manga future is if the publishers offer downloads-to-own that are available all over the world (and yes, that includes the UK), that are viewable on a iPad (I hate Steve Jobs with a passion and yet I'm still planning on buying one on import from the US as there's no way in Hell I'm paying a obscene amount for the UK version because it's handy for reading PDF books on as well as scanlated manga!), have none of that bloody DRM crap, are sold at decent prices (why do you think ebooks aren't succeeding at the moment?) and also have decent translations.
At the end of the day, if the publishers want to get rid of piracy, they'd be better off working with the scanlators rather than working against them as some of the scanlations I've read are just as good as the real thing if not better! |
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Draneor
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If I were the industry, I'd go after L**k next. Piracy will always be around, but running a massive XDCC archive of scanlations and untranslated manga is a pretty large target. I wouldn't assume IRC (or torrents) are safe. Last edited by Draneor on Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:13 am; edited 1 time in total |
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sharonlover
Posts: 78 Location: Washington DC |
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*shuffles back to IRC*
at least now maybe we can fall back on the way it use to be before manga/anime became so fricken big. My wife tells me of a time where IRC and small ftp's brought us all the manga we needed. Looks like it's time to brush up on my IRC commands...it's been a while. In a way, I'm glad to see they are finally getting their hands around this. As a scanlator, I still plan on working the few projects that I have and releasing them through my various channels (all things that are not licensed in America and likely never will be). The fans are still going to want their manga and another method will arise. I did enjoy the ease of access to so much manga though, that will be missed. They really need a manga e-bookstore, I'd be willing to pay. I'd also be willing to scanlate items for free, just to get this stuff to the fans. Hell that's why most of us do this, for the fans. Those in it for profit need to go back into the hole. |
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Dagon123
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Straw Man tactic but whatever floats your boat also this isn't gonna stop piracy of Manga, there are still plenty of places that make you do 3 easy more steps and its right there for you, these aggregator sites are going down because they are so bluntly obvious and easily accessible,, find click, BAM its right there, the ones making money off of these I'm glad are going down, but I'm never going to endorse shutting down all fantranslations, because they give you a much broader spectrum of things to read, until I see Kodomo no Jikan and Freezing! get legit digital releases, I'll continue to use "other" sources then legit ones to read them |
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iindigo
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The problem I have with no scanlators being around is similar to that of no fansubbers being around... Only the super mainstream stuff gets translated and published in the US while anything truly interesting is ignored.
Doesn't affect me at the moment since I can just head to the local bookstore or combini and pick up an original Japanese copy for ¥300 or so (yay for living in Tokyo), but dammit I can't read Japanese yet... |
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sharonlover
Posts: 78 Location: Washington DC |
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agreed' snoopycool brought a lot of stuff that didn't kick up interest to the fans. Lucu, HelenESP, FrankenFran, He also brought a few series that became so popular they actually licensed them (at which point they were pulled from his site, like a proper scanlator should be doing) such as Shiki, Deadman Wonderland, Flame of Recca, ect ect... Point being, when scanlation is done by the right group and for the right reasons, it's a good tool for the manga industry to use to determine viability of a product. On the other hand, sites like onemanga and scanlators who continue to publish licensed material only hurt the rep of what scanlation is suppose to be about. |
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BorgmanJayce
Posts: 298 Location: Hades via UK |
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At the end of the day, whether domestic anime and manga publishers like it or not, scanlators and fansubbers are a necessary evil especially if it's material that will never have a snowball's chance in Hell of getting a release in English (if the Hades Saga OAVs and movies get a legit release, then I'll buy them as long as it's not Sentai that releases them!) |
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asimpson2006
 Posts: 3151 Location: USA |
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I never cared for One Manga at all. I used other sites, but since most of them are going down now it's just a bit harder to find what I am looking for but it's worth it. Hopefully OpenManga or what ever it's called works out. If it does, I will support it fully.
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Tuskus
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We all know that this isn't going to stop piracy and will end up hurting those who use manga scan sites to read unlicensed manga. (When I say "unlicensed manga" I don't mean the latest chapter of Naruto, I'm talking about old Go Nagai comics or Fist of the North Star or the internationally famous Princess Knight.) I mean, sure, it'll keep some kids away from the pirated manga but do you think those kids will put out money for a volume of Bleach? Of course not, they'll just read manga in the hall of their local Barnes and Noble, which is incidently in the way of me looking for manga to buy. The rest of the kids will just learn to get their latest manga fix from irc. Speaking of which, can anybody direct me to an irc tutorial so I can read some Mazinger Z?
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Peroxid
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For me it's a good thing since I buy and don't read online, And with this kind of sites going down, I believe the sales will go up, so more licenses.
Still isn't there 1000manga left that is their sister site? |
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NDenizen
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The obvious nature of OneManga means this was inevitable, really. Though I suppose it is good riddance - taking a mangaka's work and providing it in such bad quality never does the art justice, and the easy nature of it managed to cloud the effort that scanlators put into bringing us manga.
People started to assume that an end-result sight like OM was actually the heavenly provider of their weekly fix, when that just isn't fair. That being said, I still used the sight regularly, to check things, try out new manga or use it as a means of knowing what's come out recently, as well as following whole series on there. As a result, I bought loads of manga because of online manga sites. Being unable to easily view stuff is going to make it harder for me to find new series - I am sort of forced to stick to the ones I know. As for how its all happened, it seems no actual legal alternative exists for such a thing. So yet again this looks yet another step back, created by ignorant and conservative publishers in denial about how "intellectual property" works today. Not to mention that unlicensed stuff is out of reach too, how does that make sense? |
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Orange Hollow
 Posts: 68 Location: Krasnoyarsk, Russia |
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At least now we know for sure, that some ANN staff daily visited that site. Of course, only to get news, no illegal manga downloads, god forbid!
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luisedgarf
Posts: 669 Location: Guadalajara, Mexico |
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Well, since you live in the U.S. It's not a big trouble for you anyways... |
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