"The bottom line is we love our series and we're not going to stop working on them unless an equivalent legal service is made available."

Huuh!?
Then stop your crappy acting of complying with the publisher and just release like you always have.
You ARE ignoring their wish, not the "aggressor sites". So stop blaming them.
I just want you to take responsibility for the action you take. Shifting the blame is just the slowest you can sink.

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sorry, i meant "staff" not stuff

I know I promised not to respond, but this is pretty hilarious. Japanzai and Red Hawk stick together now? Hysterical. He'd have a good laugh too.

You know what's even funnier?
"We have no desire to pick legal battles,"
"We will not stop for you, or the aggregate sites, or the publishers."

Okay....

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I don't really get it why you're fighting about this... Remember a couple of years ago when Meep-Scans got a C&D from Daiwon(i think, if not.. haksan)? They went underground, renamed themselves Manwhore-scans... and then finished the mangas they started. As i remember no one bitched at them for finishing those mangas. Everyone thanked them. Most of the people that kept saying "you're not respecting the wishes of the publishers" are fu.cking hypocrites. If they had dropped those series, you people would be writing compassionate posts about them and saying it's too bad that they had to stop doing them.

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Why is everyone having such a bitch fit?
Get. Over. It.

We all know why Japan-Nazi put watermarks on their releases... so they can make money, I'm sorry, so TRAN can make money. by getting all the readers first to flock to batoto. that's his approach for his team.
While RHS or the top makes money by putting ads on the main site, and make a deal with MFox and also get ad money from batoto, that's your approach.
EGS does it differently, they ask for donations and they don't watermark their works. I respect that "a little".

bottom line, don't sugar coat everything. we all know what's going on. I love the old days when scanlators just do titles because they really do love it. and there is NO MONEY from ads or anyone.

If all the authors and publishers of manga/manwha/manhua would up and send C&D letters to all the scanlators, and everyone... Would you stop doing any manga just to respect the wishes of the publishers? you're a hypocrite D:

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Well, but RHS make it sound like they comply with the publisher wish while they just blame other sites that the work is still being spread and still spread the stuff themselves.
One has to stand up himself for the action he takes.
Don't blame others for it.

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that picture... "i'll come to bed later, someone on the internet is wrong"
comes to mind.
anyway. apples and oranges. RHS should've just do the same approache as manwhore-scans instead of posting a post like that "oh we'll stop but we wont'". OR give DMCA a big finger. I can respect both.

I don't work on licensed series.
And yes, I would stop if I get contacted.

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In most cases... People don't give a shit about that. I wanna continue reading those mangas, so hell if i care who's doing it and if he's standing up for himself or blabla bla... it's simple.. i wanna read the manga that i like. I don't give a shit about their beliefs or their morals as long as i get the manga fast, with good quality and free to boot. People are upset because their getting money from ads... does it matter? That money is from nowhere... True they are attracting attention but even so. We're in a constantly evolving manga community. A couple of years ago there were like 20 main groups... Now there's like 20 new groups every day. Things will change but why do you think it will be for the worse? With the internet and online manga's and scanlations and paper being outdated... authors don't even need publishers anymore. From what i understand Ken Akamatsu started a site with free manga, and paying the authors with ads. Most likely this is the future of manga.

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In most cases... People don't give a shit about that. I wanna continue reading those mangas, so hell if i care who's doing it and if he's standing up for himself or blabla bla... it's simple.. i wanna read the manga that i like. I don't give a shit about their beliefs or their morals as long as i get the manga fast, with good quality and free to boot. People are upset because their getting money from ads... does it matter? That money is from nowhere... True they are attracting attention but even so. We're in a constantly evolving manga community. A couple of years ago there were like 20 main groups... Now there's like 20 new groups every day. Things will change but why do you think it will be for the worse? With the internet and online manga's and scanlations and paper being outdated... authors don't even need publishers anymore. From what i understand Ken Akamatsu started a site with free manga, and paying the authors with ads. Most likely this is the future of manga.

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All the series are licensed... by the original creator. Just because you translate the language doesn't mean the creation loses it's license.

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Seriously why is everyone complaining they have the right to earn a little money for all the work they do on the series i mean america when you go new york and go to china town it's a right of passage to buy a pirated dvd or some other fake item like a rolex.