Boycott the Publishers now.

They're like bastards.

And you should fuck the shit out of any women they managed to douche their way into.

Um... maybe they just want money for the mangas they have the English-language-version rights to and print as books....
but NO, that'd be too obvious.

There not just stopping the scanlation of English language manga but the unpublished ones too.

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
-Albert Einstein

I mean, no more Devilman. That manga is from the fucking 70s and has no chance of ever being released over here obviously.

Really? Wow. Fucking wow.

Correct!


And gizgal.

I've bought mangas diligently even when they shafted me over with several discontinues.

They went too far with this stopping of scans tho, My business with american manga industry as it is concerned, is dead to me.

I wanna read Ufo princess valkyrie in english, but no not licensed yet in usa yet. And adding the fact they take like six months to get one volume out, its very unlikely to be licensed cuz its a old manga now.

So yeah, i won't be surprised.

Surely everyone will just take to sharing via P2P? It's a bastard move, but hardly anything new, and by and large I can't see what effect it's going to have.

Are you really that surprised? These websites have been doing blatant copyright infringement. It was going to happen one day. It was inevitable. This is not like bit torrent where it relies on p2p sharing and links to files that are not hosted on the sites servers. These sites host the material and this they can and will be held responsible. Sucks but that is truth.

My inside sources tell me Onemanga is next. This information comes from someone very reliable. That will surely be fun to see as they have been running a for profit business since day one. Better back up all your shit now or download what you want before that happens. I can understand that some manga is hard to find elsewhere. Save as button be working overtime.

Everyone should just move to downloading manga instead. While reading it online may be more convenient, no one can remove what is already downloaded on your harddrive.

This is a result of Japanese and American publishing companies responding to piracy. In early June, publishing companies formed an industry coalition in order to tackle this problem (press release, WSJ overview).

The issue here is that people are uploading scanlations to aggregate sites that host thousands of series -- both unlicensed and licensed. Not only do these sites violate distribution rights, but they also illegally make money off of ad revenues. Granted, most of that money goes towards covering costs for the site, but that doesn't change the fact that money is still being made... This is what irks the publishing companies the most. They won't be able to completely stamp out piracy, but they will stop blatant violations (aggregate sites).

Publishing companies recognize that they need to revisit their business models, and some have been, but most aren't taking aggressive enough actions to catch up to this new market. My hope is that they're scrutinizing their own businesses just as much as they are this piracy issue...

I actually thought they'd be the first one to be that move, so it kinda surprised me they haven't by now. Yeah well, not too surprising either, really.

Mangaupdates will be your friend from now on, if the group that translated the stuff you want to read isn't inactive or has dead links to their TLs, that is.

But people are lazy fucks.



I can think of a few business alternatives the publishers could implement with great success. How come they can't? Kinda sad, if you think about it.

Because Japan is afraid of the internet.

I'm very surprised Onemanga hasn't been hit yet, well they may of been contacted about it but I haven't seen any announcement related to it.

It'll be interesting to see which websites agree to remove series and which ones remain adamant not to. Either way even if the online reading websites are taken down it's just a simple case of going to the groups that release it, them being usually the ones harder to hit.

Really this is only a small road block, plenty of new sites will eventual come up, many alternatives will continue to remain.

With Onemanga they will more then likely, just do there series requested to not be on our site shit. Mainly what they have here for K-On!: http://www.onemanga.com/K-ON/

Truthfully I hope the publishers realize they lose buisness cause this and go.
"Okay scanlators do wahtever"

Doubt that will happen but hey You can hope.

Stupid move from stupid people





That's it? That's all you have to say? No fucking rage all around? Has the mod position made you too nice?!

NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Ah. Well I misread that then.

That is a shame... I enjoy a good translation, but I also am torn because someday that work might be published outside of Japan and the scanlations will still exist somewhere, on some hard drive, unpaid.
It's a tough issue to regulate.

Artist are whores.

Like I said before. Instead of seeing the practically thriving market of online scanlations and the dismal sell of manga in america, most businesses should have gone "Hey, maybe I'm not fulfilling their needs correctly.

But not so apparently. Instead they decided to go "Let's fuck them over and try to force them to suit their needs to what we think they should be."

Which is only to create more piracy as people say fuck you to that. They cannot, and will not stop the online scanlations doing this.

All I can say is people feel way to entitled to shit, although the companies or translators are only throwing shit to further aggravate everyone else. If they expect to make a profit they need to learn how to adjust. Kinda like a itunes for their manga. Although it will be near impossible to prevent all piracy.

The only manga i watch online is only the new episodes for things like SJ etc. etc., if they release a volumes for sale i do buy or I borrow from a friend.(I currently have like 60 different volumes of different mangas)

I believe the artists have absolutely no say in business decisions - at least I think so.

because the artists need a cock to suck on.... so they HAVE to do what the publishers tell them to do....

For those raging about publishing companies not making an effort to adapt to market changes, check out this article. It seems like the publishing companies have finally learned their lesson: to be successful, the costly middle man needs to be cut out (foreign publishers), and sales need to be timely and digitized. Niche fans might not be big on Crunchyroll, but its business model has proven itself. This past May, CR broke even, a significant achievement given the current economy. What's more, they announced at the beginning of this month that their revenue has been rapidly growing (1, 2).

It isn't said when CR's manga service will debut, but my bet is that it'll open by the end of this year. Illegal aggregate sites going down is for this CR deal to even have a fair chance at working.

I don't know about you guys, but I'd be willing to give this a shot. CR shares its revenues with its partnered companies, so I know for sure that my money will be going to the right parties.