I think you are misunderstanding the issue. Translator was a fan, s/he never got paid to do any translations and never worked for the paid translations. Hence, s/he never got fired. They were doing it because they were fans of it, and they were buying the copies themselves and translating them out of their own pocket.
(I agree with you though, stupid greedy companies threatening the fans working on fan translations can go screw themselves. Greedy asses)
Lol greedy companies losing money because of fantranslations..sure they're too greedy. i bet the 9 tail fox naruto helps pay them for every reader who prefers reading free scans from fans lol just too greedy these damn companies.
Oh, wow, that just makes it even dumber. So, instead of spending their time wisely improving and fixing their own site, they decided to spend it targeting an individual independent fan who was doing their job better than their company is? I'd say it sounds like somebody in charge needs their priorities put in check.
They're still massive companies who get paid by thousands of fans regardless of whether or not it gets posted somewhere else on the internet. I'd say they'd be better off hiring than threatening the singular fan who was doing their job more competently than they are, but maybe that's just me...
Whatever bro, not everyone has money to spend on manga AND I think it’s pretty shitty of these companies to go after fans who are doing free translations for fun and threatening them when a lot of mangas/manhwas are already licensed and been posted here and on the web. Whoever has the money and the means will buy them, but not everyone does and they’re probably not even losing a lot of money. Tappytoons is making a big deal out of it when eventually somebody is going to buy new chapters and just sharing them on the internet and they won’t be able to do shit about it. That’s just how things are nowadays
Exactly. They were aware of the fan doing the translations and posting them on tumblr but once it got out in mangago, that’s when they contacted the fan translating it and put a stop to it (because mangago has a wider audience). It’s bullshit. The fan was doing a better AND faster job than they were. They should’ve hired her instead. Pffft.
Yep, that would've made more sense to me, but obviously I don't run the place, so what can ya do?
You mean Hiring a fan to translate it for free......? That equals less money to the greedy company lol wow
Lol your world is very small if you think this is how a business is run. Sure, let some people translate for hundreds of fans to read. We'll just lose maybe thousands yearly but oh man, we're too damn greedy.
Lol, you must not work for your money if you can just drop $50 on one webtoon without even knowing if it'll be good because the greedy assholes who run the sites can't just use a monthly membership system like literally every other similar service...
No, hiring means employing and paying Mr. Musk, but of course, with your ever-so-expansive business knowledge I'm sure you knew that...
Lol so ripping the author off is the better option lol
No, you mean hire fans to translate as an employee but they distribute it for free? lol
Not sure if monthly subscriptions are going to contunue to be a thing (or continue being as cheep as they are now) I've been noticing that some companies (for example best buy) are stopping subscription services because they were losing more that profiting. Neflix recently raised it's prices, just by a dollar but what if little by little they keep raising the prices? This is all hypothetical so I could be wrong, I mean XBox just launch a subscription services so who knows.
Honestly, throwing a fit and firing your translator over someone posting something on the internet? I feel like someone never grew past the era of Napster and never knew piratebay existed or something. If it can be posted, it will be posted, if it's taken down, it'll get posted again. That's just how the world does and has worked for years now.
At this point these companies should know, only die hard fans/supporters are going to pay and the rest will pirate. I'd personally be paying myself but their site won't take my damn money so this is my only other option, if they want me to pay for their site that is more broken than this free one, they should at least fix my ability to pay in the first place...