Quote from Ninja_Smurf
I don't remember him saying the translations were perfect, just that they are higher quality and are closer to what the author was trying to convey in the original text. Putting words in peoples mouths doesn't help your argument.
Do you know how much the creators even make? Even the authors are starting to rebel against the publishers.
If they wouldn't ignore their fans then why would they pursue shutting down these sites which, what I gather from reading these posts, help people learn about the manga that they release and eventually buy, generating a profit. I personally don't buy manga and won't even if every viable source of reading online was taken down but I do buy manga related items from my favorite series. If it wasn't for scanlations I wouldn't have know about the series and wouldn't have bought the product.
Get off your high horse.
My horse is no higher than yours I assure you.
I don't mean to put words in someone's mouth, poor word choice on my part. But when compared to grammatical errors such as leaving the original Japanese sentence structure (which is what I remember the scans I would read would do) I'd say changing "shit" to "damn" or "I went to the store" to "I took a trip to the market" is higher quality. Which is what I see in the older translations. Not that all of them are perfect either, I will never claim that they are. No one can perfectly translate from one language to another, that's the reason they are two separate languages.
I don't claim to know what they make, and I ask of you the same thing I asked of kaerfehtdeelb, give me proof that they don't make much, or an article about the authors being angry and I would gladly change my opinion on scanlations stealing from the authors.
As for ignoring fans? Write to these companies and give your reasons that one manga and other manga viewing websites should be kept up and allow them to tell you their reasons for shutting them down. What they're doing is shutting down a site that is stealing many things they have legal rights to and posting them online. It's similar to a website that has bootleg movies streaming on it. As you said, you don't purchase manga and don't plan to so they aren't making a profit off of you. Who is to say that there aren't more manga fans just like you? Buying other merchandise doesn't necessarily negate the problem.
ETA: kaerfehtdeelb sent me a link, so I'm going to check that out right now.
Last edited by thecg at 4:04 pm, Jul 22 2010