[Locked] Discussion: Unlicensed Content Removal

We will continue supporting scanlators in every way possible. I believe that when a legal alternative does not exist, scanlation is necessary to fill in the void and show the publishers/artists that there is demand for their work outside of Japan. I've talked about this before and here is a pretty good post detailing my thoughts. I believe the end goal of scanlation is to live in a world where all material (magazines, books, doujinshi, etc), is published legally in the language you're looking for, at a quality worth paying for, and at the same time it's available in Japan. We are going to build towards that goal and simulpublishing the two biggest hentai magazines in Japan is a first step.

The reality of the situation (specifically with FAKKU as a business) is that we need to remove unlicensed content to secure more publishing deals and ensure that all artists are comfortable working with us. Our current partners are okay turning a blind eye to the unlicensed content on FAKKU, but that will not always be the case.

On a personal note, I am a huge advocate of free speech and as I've always said we will not be censoring any content we publish. We already work with the CBLDF, but keeping unlicensed content on the website prevents us from being able to fully support them. Specifically I want FAKKU to become a corporate sponsor of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund so we can continue to support those freedoms. P.S. Donate.

It sucks that the majority of content on FAKKU will disappear, but we will be replacing it with new content that won't be available anywhere else. Our end goal will be to eventually bring back all of the unlicensed content officially through FAKKU, and this is the first step towards that.

Here is a rough timeline for content removal, this is not final and will most likely change.

06/2015: Removal of some specific unlicensed publishers and unlicensed controversial content
12/2015: Removal of remaining unlicensed content

So, to ask the question that's been asked many times over, will there be similarly made free works for the mass public? Or is the entire site going to be on a paid subscription for the mags? And if it's not going to be like that at first, is there any way we can get free hentai from Fakku ever again?

We'll find a way to keep some of the content on FAKKU free, either through random chapters every day or rotating book titles, something. We probably won't launch with the free content, but it's something I've been thinking about trying to solve.

There should be nothing stopping the tags from returning, the content however can only return, I guess, if/when it is officially licensed by Fakku.

The idea thrown around is it can work one of two ways. If you purchase material such as books off of fakku you can get a trial period on fakku for something like a month. The monthly subscription fee would be something like $7 a month, but that is subject to change. They could also try doing something with 30 day trial periods, bundled monthly deals, etc. Starting out though it will be a little more tight cost-wise till things are more established. The goal is to make it as affordable as possible, while paying enough to get the content and quality fans deserve.

Removing doujinshi is more of a morale decision than a legal one. There will come a point where FAKKU should only have licensed content. Thankfully, we'll be bringing a lot of legal doujinshi to the website (both free and paid), the first two are Cure Assort and Bosshi's XXX MiX.

Hey Jacob just an fyi about donating to the CBLDF, not only can you do it directly, but you can also donate just from shopping off Amazon using Amazon Smile.

https://smile.amazon.com/

Just sign in through Amazon Smile, select CBLDF as your charity, and then shop.

Straw man fallacy

Doujinshi scanning and scanlation only sidesteps the harm of piracy when there is no legal alternative. And that's exactly what FAKKU is doing.

Hi, Sorry is there a way to recommend Doujins we want licensed? T_T MTSP's fate stay night ones... Cyclones Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha, as well as AquaDrop (Mikami Mika) Oyasumi Sex

"Most of the time people wouldn't buy the products" does not equate to "everyone wouldn't buy the products." And it turns out that every sale matters in such a small industry.

The current existence of pirated Naruto doujinshi both devalues a future licensed version of that doujinshi and also decreases the chance of getting a licensed version of that doujinshi.

Is this that big announcement that you were going on about a few weeks ago Jacob or was that something else because I haven't seen anything in the last book posts about it.