Likhos01 Posts

Dude, you didn't get it either! This is what pisses me off, nobody fucking reads what anybody writes in their entirety. They're just cherry picking a sentence here and there and taking it out of context to rail on who the hell knows, because it's completely off-topic. None of the guys (below) got it either, yet they directly reference me, but just a specific line that's relevant to whatever comment they decided to make up on the spot to address that sentence only, and not the actual context and topic of anything I wrote. It's not rocket science, it's just reading comprehension, and it's sorely lacking.

The whole decision around scanlators makes no sense. Many of the scanlators under the fakku domain put out all kinds of unlicensed doujinshi, and spoilers, there's no word that any of them will not continue doing so. They're completely by commission, they'll do anything, and they continue putting out all kinds of unlicensed doujinshi until today. When Jacob says scanlators are not affected by this and they can continue to operate as their own entity, even though they produce the very content that is required to be removed from this site because Fakku has to distance themselves from it to go forward legally, and yet still be affiliated and work for Fakku directly and on their works, how is that okay? That's messed up. That makes absolutely no sense. You can't just make a deal with publishing companies that you'll get rid of all this unlicensed pirating going on here, while still supporting and providing a platform for the ones who produce and distribute/pirate that unlicensed material in question. It's a double-standard, and cannot be valid. Of course, there could be any number of things on this issue that Jacob just won't to put out details for because this whole thing is still being kept under wraps and as vague and under as many NDA's as possible. But the known facts of this situation right now do not make sense, and puts the legitimacy of this entire change into question.

Everything I spelled out, the entire problem, completely glossed over and misconstrued. This is why you can't have a half-decent debate about this topic because people will cherry pick a specific sentence to go off on random tangents while ignoring the topic. Whatever, I will still not support this either way, and I've made my point and the problems with this move loud and crystal clear, if anyone had the reading comprehension to pick up on it.



We have legality issues and want to go legit, so we have to remove all unlicensed material and stop pirating anything on our site and move the company in a more legitimate direction so as to appease corporations overseas and not get sued into oblivion, but we'll keep hosting all the scanlators that continue to produce unlicensed works for the public for free because that's okay, they're their own thing, but they're a part of the Fakku brand name/umbrella and will even help do some of the translation work on the licensed works.

That double standard. What. The. Fuck.

piracy fallacy one pirated copy does not equal a lost sold unit because how do you know they were going to buy it in the first place? You can steal a tangible object. If I steal an orange from somebody, I am depriving them of that orange because they no longer have it and I do. Copying mp3 files isn't the same at all. You could make the argument that I'm depriving somebody of revenue, but that is making the assumption that I would buy movies and music if I couldn't get them for free.
And what exactly will you do when people who pay for this get their hands on whole volumes and upload them onto torrent or already illegal sites hosted in EU countries or some African countries where DMCA and take down's go unnoticed?