Manga Publishers will Sue Manga Piracy Sites

[BloodyAngel]

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As promised, the newly formed coalition of Japanese and US manga publishers has indicated it is pursuing legal action against major manga piracy and scanlation sites in defence of its copyrights.

The Digital Comic Association, a Japanese publisher group supposedly formed to promote digital sales but fast turning into the manga equivalent of the RIAA, has partnered with 4 top English language publishers to tackle a short-list of 30 problem sites.

Starting with the US sites, those who ignore legal warnings will be sued for damages and subjected to criminal charges where appropriate.

With the sites in question maintaining substantial server presences in the US (although at least one major network is managed by a shady Chinese company), it does not seem likely publishers will have much trouble shutting them down.

Publishers may be in for a rude awakening once they have taken down the major offenders ? in lieu of a proper legal online alternative, a rush of freeloading manga fans to even more robust torrent sites seems the likely response, not a sudden rush to bookshops as publishers rather naively seem to hope.

[jadeliciousdk]

As stated we'll just see a lot of torrents or manga-hosting-sites placed in countries that really doesn't bother with copyright laws.

Try looking at the legal responses at "thepiratebay"... They always cracks me open :P

[pikel]

And off to the torrents we go!!!

[hakoto]

This may be a foreshadowing of the future. Manga today, then maybe anime tomorrow! QQ.

[MioAkiyama]

i ahte torrents
why don i just sue them back ? O_O
can i do that? what about our manga the yuri MANGAS
NOOOOOOOOOO MY YURI MANGAS lol

[zevlag21]

this is unfair;__; well i get the point that we have free manga unlike the guys who actually buys them. and what is the heck is happening to the internet this days =__=

[hokeymon]

I don't mind torrents. I always use it when I DL my doujin. :3

[Max Magnus]

This may be a foreshadowing of the future. Manga today, then maybe anime tomorrow! QQ.

Not the near future though, since anime DVD sales keep going up, whereas Manga sales keep going down, thus, this reaction.

[Jarsha]

o.o.. this is what happens when accountants get in control of a freaking company. Don't they realize that a number of people don't even buy the damn book, they just read it in the store. which is not illegal in anyway =o.

[IndI311]

hmm..if thay're able to shut thai websites down...
...there are some big sites on here

[globeopinion]

waaaa what will happen to my manga future >.<

[katl91995]

waaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!..........
no more onemanga and mangafox............
oh well...........lets go to the torrents...........lol

[Snoozy19]

I'm tired complaining over this entire situation... If what they say is illegal then theres no point in trying to stop them.

If we truly respect our manga and it's creators then this 'might' be the best approach for them to take.
Besides we should be lucky that their only targeting illegal manga sites, If they happen to take streaming anime in account then WE'RE ALL SCREWED!!!!

As much as I hate to say it but as long as anime is out of the situation then they can take away all the manga titles they like...

~ I'll miss you OneManga and MangaFox

[adiktdtololi]

hahay T_T.. no more manga's for me then.. Q_Q....

[Ryuji]

haha. even if they shut down those sites, they will make new ones and just use torrents etc, so dont owrry people, ill help anyone find sites and torrents if anyone needs help, just tell me what manga you want and ill tell you where to get it from, pm me if you want it tho ;P

[CoronaXbEAST]

no. T_T i breathe manga >.< why can't they just leave it aloneee

[hallowedjade]

haha. even if they shut down those sites, they will make new ones and just use torrents etc, so dont owrry people, ill help anyone find sites and torrents if anyone needs help, just tell me what manga you want and ill tell you where to get it from, pm me if you want it tho ;P

i will be looking forward for your help if onemanga down...


T_T its a very very bad news.... i've been timid lately and reading manga is my hobby now....

well if that happen i will return playing DOTA or looking for an online game to spend my time....


~ ill be missing you ONEMANGA

[tfioi]

I'ill bet that for every site they shut down, 10 new ways of sharing manga will come to be.

But tbh, this is the less profitable solution they could take.

[kingofchimps]

many companies are licensing anime for streaming on sites like crunchyroll, so maybe translated manga can get licensed for online viewing as well? That way it would be legal, and we wouldn't have to wait for hard copies to be released in other countries.

[tfioi]

Yeah it would be nice, but atm i don't see that happening since i get the feeling that they are doing this just for cash....and well licensed anime doesn't really pay off for the authors so manga would even pay off less

[BrokenAngel]

Seems like all they're accomplishing is just making it slightly more difficult to find manga online.

[takasuryuuji]

Ohh so sad.
I'll be so bored again...
I'll miss those manga that I'm reading and I'll be reading...

[DeathMaster0]

as if it was difficult to find in the first place. Sites can just move their stuff and make changes like how onemanga has 1000 manga now so im sure many sites will do that if they get hit

[serrisflame]

The Digital Comic Association, a Japanese publisher group supposedly formed to promote digital sales but fast turning into the manga equivalent of the RIAA, has partnered with 4 top English language publishers to tackle a short-list of 30 problem sites.

Do we know what the 30 sites are?

[Kobowo]

T_T torrenting manga? >.<

[AmayaMadelyn]

So the ones that didnt remove the copyrighted ones are being hit? Mangafox removed soo many it would suck if they completely shut down.

[Samehada]

Wtf.
This sux.
I hate torrent. >>

[mikitty]

This news made me do this face.. =_=
but seriously.. what the? *sigh*

[deadshitsuji]

noooo the days of onemanga and mangafox are over! :omg: i will miss you /sob

[EllefriX]

maybe manga now anime later... tsk tsk T.T noooooooooooooooooo!

[Grumpy]

Dammit, stop flocking to torrents!!! Flock to the scanlator websites!!!

[BuggsK100RS]

All of this was inevitable as reproducing Manga like Onemanga / Mangafox does is not the most legal thing in the world. We have all just got to hope that the Legal alternatives are up to scratch. Personally if its legal I think that can only be a good thing but its got to be good yes Crunchyroll is legal but some of the subbing sucks!

There is a Legal manga site on the way and Im just hoping that its going to be good quality and free / paid for through advertisements on the site. oh and all though the site is not up and running yet there is some info on it at its domain http://openmanga.org/

[lastshin]

I understand them why they're doing that
but still its a major pain!

[koedt]

So Nanoka~~ . . .

. . . They really are taking this seriously . . .

[dsdark13]

i can most likly see this blowing up in there face and a large amount of new or cheaply made uploader sites showing much like delbooru 4chan and such

[ranmachua]

Looks like some people are getting very desperate

[powerband]

Ahh....my manga.... sigh at least i hope they don't take down anime. hopefully they don't see the success and decide to try it on anime

[sawanikuya]

Damn... Tsk What happened! Torturing Moment~! and Torrents! ToT

[ciaossu]

too sad, just too saddening... it is really hard to access manga in our place so, TT_TT

[darkpoetry]

They will aim mainly at the Japanese sites that host manga. It will be awhile until they start going international. Moving the offensive to the international is always extremely difficult for any country.
Their main concern is profits. Banning sites that host translated manga barely affect their profits.
Its not like we will go out and buy Japanese manga so theres no real worry for us at the moment.
Its impossible to stop though, torrents, irc, emule, theres tons of ways to spread manga.
The main worry for me is that this will spread to anime streaming. Streaming sites can be easily found and we will have to revert back to the dark ages of torrents and emule.

[tambaylang2000]

It's okay..... but that's eat our previous time to read manga ^__^

[jeiru01]

eh?! Mangas here in my country, costs a lot, (well that is for me, we're just poor) So, meaning, my chances of buying mangas are rare, then torrents huh.. I don't know how to do it xD Free mangas ftw.. I wonder if they'll attack anime next. no way!

[ZetsuRavez]

damn... oh well... ill gonna try to use torrent to read manga for the first time^^
hope that mangafox and onemanga will not cease to exist because of this...

[OVirus53]

o.o.. this is what happens when accountants get in control of a freaking company. Don't they realize that a number of people don't even buy the damn book, they just read it in the store. which is not illegal in anyway =o.

They can't do anything about that. They can, however, do something about another way people are reading manga for free. i.e. Manga sites. Here's a scenario for example: It's as if one person buys a manga and then lets a thousand people read over his shoulder so they don't have to buy it. There goes a thousand sales for the price of one. Which is more harmful? The people who come in and read it, but don't buy it? Or the people who buy it and then put it online so that anyone and everyone can read it for free? I don't know about anyone else, but I'd personally feel more inclined to sit at home and read something than go down to the book store to read it.

[mlcdl]

I understand them why they're doing that
but still its a major pain!
Well the truth is sometimes harsh

Looks like some people are getting very desperate
It is cause for us otaku, manga is one part of entertainment


eh?! Mangas here in my country, costs a lot, (well that is for me, we're just poor) So, meaning, my chances of buying mangas are rare, then torrents huh.. I don't know how to do it xD Free mangas ftw.. I wonder if they'll attack anime next. no way!

Waaaaa you're right.....money problem again

[Kryptonyte]

oh please. we all know anime and manga fans in our own respective countries. The one's that are willing to buy have and are always willing to buy, and prefer to buy; the one's that don't will never- myself included. We're just going to end up finding more creative ways to share.

This is the issue though, these companies don't seem to understand that free online manga doesn't really harm the business, rather it makes a larger fan-base and in fact encourages real buyers. They are looking at it objectively while counting the numbers of a prospective that never existed to begin with. Sales will not increase due to this, if they do, it would be very slight and even then, sales would eventually decrease as the fan-base dwindles.

[tormenteh]

well thats silly I think :S well in my opinion. :S