[Locked] Discussion: Unlicensed Content Removal

I guess if you have anything unlicensed in your favourites now is the time to save them on your computer. Well those days of pirating were fun but now it's time to make way for a brighter future, one were FAKKU is no longer in the dark.

Stay salty :)

It's being worked on.

I'd rather just a flat blacklist for me, if I'm not interested, I don't want to see it unless it has a favorited tag as well as a blacklisted, then I can just follow the comments to see if it's worth going in.

I'd also like digital purchase by chapter or purchase -x chapters since I think a lot of people got burned with purchases before they were tagging individual chapters with content they didn't like enough to say, "I regret buying this." Which I think should be raised up the flagpole, I also really like the idea of pay-as-you-go since I know people on a budget will be more interested in work by certain artists than paying a subscription for things they only may like. Something like $2-$4 a chapter, which sounds like a lot, but if you think they are spending time translating the entire magazine and you only want one, single, chapter per say, it keeps them from going broke giving us content.

Maybe bulk deals, but ngl guys Jacob and the rest probably have considered this, but it'll have to wait until they recoup some of the expenses they're burning through right now to make this magazine and subscription launch worth the loss in userbase + potential revenue those lost users may have given.

So, no more doujinshi. I know that's unavoidable because of the horrible legality expenses to license it(The creator, the manga publisher, the animation studio, and the worldwide distributors would all get a cut, plus more people.), but man. At least waiting till December will give us time to get it downloaded. I'm also sitting here thinking about the money and if it would be worth it as a business to consider at some point. I think people would pay a lot of for it, but is it just worth all the royalties FAKKU! will have to dish out just to get it to us?

They have to in order to keep their license to officially sell the books and get other publishers to feel comfortable working with Jacob.
Jacob will probably make some chapters free after a few months so there probably won't be many free chapters at the beginning, you have to remember that Wani wants their money too.

If we don't have the rights to publish something, it'll be removed. That's all that matters.


We're not going after scanlation groups, even if we're working on the same thing. We don't want to kills piracy by shutting down the competition, since others have shown that that approach hasn't been very successful in the past. Rather, we want to offer a better service so that people willingly chose our releases over pirated ones.


Not entirely sure what your question is here, but I think I've answered it either way; we will remove all unlicensed content before the end of the year, and we won't try to shut down scanlation groups.


To some extent. There is one thing that I'd definitely consider a FAKKU classic that we're currently working on.


If you buy something, you'll always have access to it. A subscription service would most likely work the way you'd expect it to, where you get access to content as long as you're subscribed. One area that could get confusing would be if you had to have a subscription to be able to buy something, but a) I don't think we'll have such a feature, and b) in that case you'd probably get to keep it since you bought it.


We haven't decided on this yet. Books will likely remain the same with you buying the book and then not having to pay for it again in the future. If we introduce a subscription model, it'd be recurring payments for continued access to new content.


Games, anime, figurines, etc. We would like to offer you everything imaginable, and magazines are the first step towards achieving that goal.



I understand the point you're making, but we don't think it's a good way to go about it.

As an example, look at two artists from X-Eros #30: DISTANCE and Ayane. DISTANCE is a popular artist with multiple books released and a well-established fanbase. Ayane, on the other hand, has has their first ever publication in that issue. Nondiscriminatory localization of every story by every artist in these publications is a huge deal to us, and we never want to have to approach an artist and say, "why don't you try being more like DISTANCE?"

The same goes for genres. Say only .05% want to buy the NTR stories in a publication. That puts us in a tough spot where we either have to continue to do those stories and lose money while doing so, or just skip them in the future. We don't want to be forced to censor our releases after making a point about shunning censorship.

Finally, I don't think the people buying individual chapters will get a fair deal. Let's use a typical $10 book with 10 chapters and your suggestion of $2-4 per chapter as an example. If it was the lower figure of $2, there would be no reason not to buy per-chapter, since it would come out to $10 regardless, and this would lead to the same issues as above. That's not a viable option, and if we instead charged $4 per chapter, you could buy a book and hate 70% of it, and still get a better deal by buying the book in its entirety ($10 vs. $12). I don't think aiming for a happy medium of $3 would solve this either.


There will be doujinshi. Doing something like simulpublishing alongside major events like Comiket would be amazing, but that's a huge project that would come later on. It would involve reaching out to individual artists, but at least in the meantime, we can some smaller collaborations with artists who we already have an established relation with, like Bosshi.

Sounds pretty good to be honest.

My main concern in all of this is really just "Will they be able to produce enough content to be worth the "per month cost" model they seem keen on implementing.

I endorse the main idea of getting more licensed material translated and being able to buy the stuff I like to support the artist.
But from what I can see we are only getting the big names, the indies/doujinshis are left out. DLsite offers alot of doujinshi works for sale, so it shouldn't be impossible to fix all of this legal hassel they keep refering too.

40 chapters a month isn't enough? Plus there anyways new artists and young artists in a good part of the monthly mags on avg.

It's just not the same. I started going to fakku almost 3 years ago. Made an account over a year ago. And for that time, I would chose no other exceptions to read my porn. But now, my favorites, forced and ahegao, barely exist anymore. Sure not the most moral but we all go on this site to read about people in manga having sex. Not a whole lot of room to judge. I know you have to do things and move with the times, I just think this was the wrong choice to make. I hope things can go back someday. But until then I don't think this is the site for me anymore.

I remember a time when fakku was a promised land of hentai. All the other hentai sites required payment or were full of viruses. But not anymore. This is bullshit and you know it Jacob. This is a disgrace to the fakku name.

That's pretty much the final nail in the coffin. Almost anything I would care to read is stuff from existing series, content based on existing works and series. Everything labed "Series: Original Work" just doesn't cut it. I have little interest in original one-shots that nobody can honestly relate to or be a fan of since it's based on nothing. That's the easiest way to kill off your entire userbase, guarantee them that they absolutely will not get any content they care about. GG Fakku.

Don't be hypocrites defending this when you're the target audience most affected by this particular change. Many of you come here, many exclusively even, to see hentai from things like SAO, Evangelion, Kantai Collection, High School DxD, whatever anime that you're watching or is currently airing/popular, etc. This is not a place for that anymore.

It's not that it's bad per-say but Jacob has stated that his end goal was always to bring a legal means to purchasing and supporting the hentai industry.
The tags will come back, it's not like loli and such are banned from the site.

I just don't understand WTF is with just deleting stuff randomly?

Today the first chapter of Cuvie's "The Taste Of “H†Love" disapperaed, the only one my favorite. The rest is in place. I hardly can believe that only the first chapter has been "licensed". It seems like manga just disapperaes at random. And why deletion - what happened to just blocking it with red warning? At least people could se what happened with their bookmarks.

All this is realy sad - one of best websights turn into heck knows what.

Those 40 chapters are unlikely to be interesting to everyone. On average you could assume that half of those are something you'd be interested in per month.
The more "exotic" you fetishes are the more that number decreases.
With the removal of alot of tags will there even be 6-7 chapters per month I'd care about?

I don't mind paying for the individual pieces I want, however I doubt that the monthly thing would be worth it for my subjective case.
If you find yourself in the camp that would enjoy above half the chapters per month, good for you.

That the magical thing. The interwebs has it all. One can still find stuff you like and still read paid stuff. Plus if you say well I'll pay for individual chapters of what you like then you're really paying more for less. 4 or 5 chapters would pay for the 40. But they wouldn't do individual chapters anyways. It will be online somewhere else with in the week anyways. No one ever escapes the pirate machine. Jacob doesn't really doesn't care even if they do get uploaded somewhere for free.

Of course 4-5 chapter idea is hypothetical. One of the translators put up the idea if there was a chapter buying option then 2 bucks would be somewhat the charge. If a dollar was given then 7-9 is a ballpark.