Warning!

Yes, they'll present a order to cease and desist the sharing of material copyrighted within that country (if it's not published in the US, for example, they won't have a leg to stand on for telling a US site to stop sharing the files. There's rumblings about changing this, which would be the near pinnacle of money grubbing since it's essentially saying "well if it's popular, we'll go ahead and publish it. Go retroactively charge them with copyright infringement.") as well as fine the owners of the site for every download, force them to give up their data and logs so the users can be tracked down and then sue the "users" for copyright infringement. You know, what the RIAA does. MPAA acts a bit more responsibly, but that's not to say they couldn't do so. I would hope any manga publishers were smart enough to not commit terrorism on their own fanbase. Granted, leechers don't generate direct revenue, but if they provided them with free, lower quality materials and allowed anyone to modify them under a creative commons license for the purpose of either satire or fan based publicity, they would spread their product out a lot farther and reach more folks who might pay for it (for those not in the know, this crackpot fly-by-night school called Harvard had their business school (it's a masters program that is so bad it counts against you on a resume) do a study and long term those that do the most file sharing also buy the most material. That's right, because they could get a version for free to evaluate, they bought the actual material.

And just in case you don't know what Harvard is (for those not familiar with US schools and couldn't detect my sarcasm), it's actually a well respected Ivy league school who's business school is also well respected, arguably more so that the actual main school.

I'm sorry, I thought you said doom and gloom. that's when they finally pass some law that says no private citizen or sole proprietorship can own copyright to a given work. In english, that would mean you can't own any work you make, but businesses could, provided they weren't a single person. I've little doubt that'll get introduced as a "corporate sponsorship and protection" bill.

I remember the time when those people were going out and targeting every site hosting hentai on their servers to remove and shutdown, etc. blah blah blah.

What's been bugging me is while these hentai companies and others most likely associated with them have been on a crusade to stop mostly the licensed, uncensored ones for the most part, I find it interesting, so far, that it's only THEM on a crusade.

What I'm kinda hinting at--and you could bring an axe to me to "Prevent ideas from getting out"--is that the regular companies, like Funi, ADV, and Viz, for example, aren't on this crusade as well for what they've licensed. A few past incidents aside, it's not as aggressive as the other guys basically. I'm not seeking a reason or an answer, nor am I trying to spawn another debate. Just pointing that out.

(Damn my posts are long)