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is this legal?

k, thanks tony, but i still wonder if companies could sue

My educated guess: No.

Extremely few manga, if any whatsoever, are available for download. The closest you can get from actual legal companies is something like a preview with a few pages at a manga's start, and that's even rare.

I haven't clicked the link, though; a little bit wary of spyware stuff.

To send them letters, threaten legal action, shut them down, etc. would only prove fruitless since the Internet is so vast. I suppose these companies should just have faith in the goodness and honesty of paying consumers.

Trust me, the internet is not nearly as vast or anonymous as most users seem to think and the consumer protections that most folks seem to assume are written in stone are in fact easily modified with new legislation.

Of course, at the same time you have to contend with the fact that the Internet is international and thus there are many different copyright laws out there. For example, I know the Canadian copyright law when it comes to downloading is far less strict than the American one, essentially making things like downloading music legal (or close enough that people believe it is legal).

If you can provide any specific evidence that supports the view that downloading copyrighted music which you have not purchased is legal in Canada, please do so.

While you are technically correct that there are many different copyright laws out there, you are incorrect to claim that they differ significantly from one country to another. International agreements like the Berne Convention (of which Canada is a signatory) have helped promote a fairly consistent view of copyright protections world-wide.