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NEWS: App Puts Unauthorized Manga Scans on iPhone, iPad


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maribeasteva2



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:36 pm Reply with quote
Time will tell what happen with this action!
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yuna49



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:15 am Reply with quote
sdhd wrote:
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.


In the US, only technologies used to "circumvent" copy-protection are illegal under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The materials being viewed are not protected in any way, so the application itself is not illegal under this law.

Would you suggest that we ban all computers and web browsers since they, too, can be used to view infringing scanlations on the Internet?

To my mind, the companies have some basis for pursuing the creators of applications like these if they make money off the application. Then they could be treated as commercial infringers. Banning free applications, if they exist, because they can be used freely to watch illegal materials housed somewhere on the planet makes no sense to me.

To be clear, I don't read scanlated manga or support the creators of this or similar programs.
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Mohawk52



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 10:47 am Reply with quote
Zac wrote:
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.
Seemed to work for Crunchyroll and the like. Wink
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