I see, so is that why he was so pissed of? Because, honestly, by reading the comments here saying that he didn't want it to be uploaded because of credits and stuff, calling it basically "stealing" was way off.
I mean, we, as readers in an online website and the scanlation groups are, basically, "stealing". It's piracy.
So saying that others websites are stealing his hard work is kind of hypocrite, since he is stealing as much as we are all doing so, the hard work of several mangakas, since we don't pay them and still read it. But what the mangakas lose is money, so I would say that their loss is way bigger.
But since scanlating licensed series carries a very huge risk, do you think someone will scan the pages, or would you know a website to buy it outside the US?
that's the excuse his followers are giving. the truth is he wants people viewing his site. want to keep his followers and numbers growing. look all the mangas here with english license and none of the scan groups force nor make fans to go to their sites to read it. they only ask to credits be respected, etc., as it should.
and if you're going to make something illegal, you shouldn't be a pussy. experts know how to make fun of copy rights and don't get caught. if you're an inexpert and get coward, then don't get in. this is the internet.
well you can try scroll down and read Junki's comment. They offered the way to buy the series without having to pay shipping cost
that's is the excuse his followers are making. he just want people visiting his page and growing followers and numbers. amen to the comment about stealing, because that is the truth.
actually the ones losing big money is the publishing companies not mangakas. the pb had already paid mangakas for their work. mangakas only lose royalty money.
Thanks! I will take a look
Really? But, I mean, they probably gain as much as they sell, so each person who reads a manga without buying it is technically taking away their money, no? Because, why would the publishing company pay them for the work they didn't sell, but got stolen?
Sorry if Imay seem ignorant about such subject, but fact is, I don't understand much and only am showing my thoughts.
I was off a couple of weeks and I´m kind of lost. What's happening?
We lost the translator for Junjou Romantica and Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi. Shit went down he got pissed cause some people reuploaded his work and he refuses to make his translations public anymore.
i'll just speak for myself, i'm a cleaner/typesetter and i spend so much of my free time cleaning manga especiallyy when it's a heavy sfx one like JR and SIH. and then after all that hard work myy releases got posted on other sites with them missing myy watermarks and credit page........ of course i would be hella pissed.
ps: i'm not the scanlator of SIH and JR, i just sayy what i feel(i kind of understand his feelings)
I would be to if I was translating and put my name on it but stopping completely because 1 or 2 fans fucked it up for everyone I dont think I would go that far I would be hella pissed but I dont think I would altogether stop translating.
Oh, now I get it. Thank you so much, I didn't know.
So bad what happened to the translator, it's way too wrong to take the work of the other without giving him/her the respective credits and it feels even worse when you're doing it for free.
scanlating a licensed series is actually a very huge risk. If you got found out, you had to pay the fine (according to publisher's policy) so of course, any translator wouldn't want to pay extra money for something they did for free, right? So it's pretty understandable that he doesn't want his translations be uploaded randomly.
And I have to agree with some of us here that the way he said he was mad was kind of disturbing beacuse sure, he did it for free but no one ever asked him to do so. And he should have known the possibility of having his translations being uploaded all over because it's the internet. you can't have complete control of everything in internet