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New Poll - Scanlation Ethics
(80 posts, 5558 views) Posted: 269d 3h, 57m ago by Grumpy in News
Well, since you asked, though late, I suppose a response is in order. (I don't really check MU news...)
To the question at the end: you draw a line in a different place than I do. You draw the line of what's acceptable vs unacceptable where exchange of m ...
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New Poll - Scanlation Ethics
(80 posts, 5558 views) Posted: 279d 22h, 17m ago by Grumpy in News
Quote from TaoPaiPai about ppl in the middleages copying stuff
monks did that...on mostly holy scriptures to have and keep in the monestarys
not to sell for profit
they where made in most cases for spreading in these religious places
Actually, copying were their mai ...
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New Poll - Scanlation Ethics
(80 posts, 5558 views) Posted: 279d 22h, 28m ago by Grumpy in News
In free market, ie sans regulation, the very notion of intellectual property, piracy or illegal distribution wouldn't exist. Although made up in such way to mislead, intellectual property is a single definition that cannot be separated into two words. It's not a pr ...
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How many percents do scanlated manga account for the total number of manga in Japan?
(16 posts, 1481 views) Posted: 482d 0h, 39m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
If you count the old mangas (albeit staying post WW2), the 28% should drop even more as many of them aren't listed here. And frankly, it's hard to even find out the titles with all of google searching powers. They are, "lost art", imo. And I d ...
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Cheating Manga
(5 posts, 2797 views) Posted: 509d 23h, 27m ago by Grumpy in I'm Looking For...
(category Infidelity) minus (genres ecchi, hentai, shoujo ai, shounen ai, yaoi, yuri) on (rating sort) ...
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My parents are homophobic and racist
(31 posts, 2449 views) Posted: 539d 9h, 19m ago by Grumpy in Adult (18+)
Quote from Mo-Dean Quote from Grumpy To top it off, germans apologized and shunned their acts during the world wars. Japan on the other hand still deny that they ever committed genocide and never apologized for their actions. Here's a List of war apolo ...
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My parents are homophobic and racist
(31 posts, 2449 views) Posted: 540d 21h, 32m ago by Grumpy in Adult (18+)
So, in other words, you find your parents "traditional". lol
But perhaps you should be trying to take an impartial view on this. Your parents saw and experienced a world much different than yours. To assume your parents would have the same ideals and ...
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Automatic manga translation/scanlation
(16 posts, 2718 views) Posted: 547d 2h, 55m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae01yz5z99E
Now... wait a few decades for them to finish up on Japanese.  ...
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Why aren't manhwas ever made into animes?
(23 posts, 1875 views) Posted: 582d 5h, 35m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
Let's make a few clarifications here.
1) Do you mean are there korean comic books that has been made into an animation?
2) Or do you mean are there korean comic books that have been made into Japanese animation?
3) Or do you mean are there kore ...
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what's up with pitiful protagonist?
(10 posts, 940 views) Posted: 588d 0h, 41m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
Quote from AnjuxKuran I have no idea.
I extremely hate these characters. It may be because im a girl and i like it when the guy is hot, rich smart... you know the drill LOL
what i hate more than these characters are the 'two hot girls with him' cause rea ...
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Dragon & Fly Scans
(57 posts, 6564 views) Posted: 615d 4h, 44m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
I'm 99.99999999% sure they are a group created by MF to scanlate things where they have difficulty just uploading what other scanlators produce (like btooom due to watermark). It also wouldn't be their first time and definitely not the first manga read ...
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Addressing The Mangafox-Mangahere situation...
(97 posts, 14850 views) Posted: 627d 23h, 58m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
Um... all the dmca/copyright talk...
Let's summarize this simply.
dmca = land of litigation only. Get out and done. Most scanlators are NOT in USA anyway.
international copyright/berne convention. Just look at the countries that didn't sign.
I think the legal pr ...
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Addressing The Mangafox-Mangahere situation...
(97 posts, 14850 views) Posted: 630d 1h, 9m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
Quote from dianoetic_otoko 20 groups making money or MF where 1 person is making money? BRING DOWN THE HAMMER ON THE 20 GROUPS!!" lol
Suing 20 people is 20x harder than suing 1 person. I don't see how your logic works.
It's also ...
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Addressing The Mangafox-Mangahere situation...
(97 posts, 14850 views) Posted: 636d 2h, 16m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
Quote from MewMan omg did i just see Dragon Fly Scans on the release page?
such group actually exists?
Not really. Check the watermark on mangafox and then mangahere. It should speak for itself then.
Though... technically, it depends on the definition. We could ...
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I may start a manhwa scanlation group. need HELP, ADVISE!
(3 posts, 875 views) Posted: 639d 3h, 11m ago by Grumpy in User Announcements
Online reader scripts.
Two most popular ones currently are "Online Manga Reader" and "Foolz Reader" / "Fool Slide"
OMR (with mod) is what's being used by Easy Going Scans for example and was used previously at T ...
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[The Company] Recruiting all positions! All the time!
(42 posts, 3829 views) Posted: 644d 8h, 38m ago by Grumpy in Recruitment
We really really need more translators.  ...
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The current state of "cleaning" in scanlation
(17 posts, 1958 views) Posted: 659d 0h, 41m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
Um... I think quite a bit of misunderstanding originated due to my bad wording of screentones/halftones which came from misunderstanding you. my bad.
Getting back to the core point, I don't think anyone applies filters for the purpose of "watering them ...
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The current state of "cleaning" in scanlation
(17 posts, 1958 views) Posted: 659d 1h, 27m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
Quote from brid Not sure about other people, but when I was talking about screentones, I meant stuff like this: http://psychobob.xepher.net/screentonez/Actual patterns and gradients applied by the mangaka to enhance the artwork, not the Andy Warhol-style " ...
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The current state of "cleaning" in scanlation
(17 posts, 1958 views) Posted: 659d 11h, 1m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
Screen tones are not textures. They're side effects caused by the printers. If you look at works by the author in original BEFORE the print, you'll notice that they often have gray gradients instead of dotted screen tones. If the comic was published digit ...
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how do they color webtoons?
(12 posts, 1294 views) Posted: 662d 1h, 44m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
There was one webtoon that actually showed several steps of the author getting to the final product... Unfortunately, I don't remember the title. But maybe someone else does.
And to be more helpful (since above is hardly any). There are programs designed ...
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This is Awesome
(66 posts, 4860 views) Posted: 663d 22h, 30m ago by Grumpy in Manga General
Translations done. lol
... been asked like 20 times to do this chapter.
I'm sure ya'll know where to get it.  ...
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[The Company] Recruiting all positions! All the time!
(42 posts, 3829 views) Posted: 673d 2h, 40m ago by Grumpy in Recruitment
uppp ...
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New Poll - Online Manga Readers
(34 posts, 1143 views) Posted: 687d 14h, 26m ago by Grumpy in News
I can also confirm on woxxy's numbers. But, probably because we are a newer group and a group that primarily focuses on webtoons, the numbers are more skewed towards online reader count (we do prints too!!). A series like Tower of God for example ...
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New Poll - Online Manga Readers
(34 posts, 1143 views) Posted: 690d 0h, 54m ago by Grumpy in News
Errr... gonna go a little more deep b/c some might misunderstand...
If two sites like mangafox and mangareader exists and you put a 3 day delay. Possibly the better of the two (mangafox - because they obey scanlator's delay limit to a degree) is disadvantag ...
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New Poll - Online Manga Readers
(34 posts, 1143 views) Posted: 690d 0h, 58m ago by Grumpy in News
You know, the irony of implying delays on online reader is that gives advantage to those who don't follow it. ...
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