Quote from renseih
It's not as if you'd loose money since the scans are free to begin with. And I don't see any organization or whatever actively taking down unlicensed mangas.
Two points: Scans are not free. Unless the scanner stole that book from the store shelf, he or she had to buy it in order to scan it. I can't speak for other scanlators, but I pay a lot of money for the books I scanlate, and I often ruin those books in order to scan them. When you do good scans of a book, you're throwing away the resale value of that book. And Libre is one company that actively went about taking down manga that were not licensed in the US and probably never will be licensed in English anywhere in the world. Some of those one-shots were only published in multi-artist magazines which aren't even available for sale in Japan. It makes no difference whether the manga has been licensed outside of Japan or not. If you're sharing it and they feel like putting forth the effort to stop you, they'll do so.
To the original poster:
Love the pics, sympathize with them completely, and wish leechers were considerate enough to sympathize as well. Unfortunately I'm pessimistic and don't see it happening. All you can do is encourage your fanbase to share your hatred of the online reader sites. Lock your doors, make it a little harder for outsiders to get your stuff, and be very vocal about why you're doing it so your fans know who to resent. Forget about getting new fans because they're not worth it. Scanlate for your trusted few and let the rest go scanlate their own versions of the book if they can't read Japanese. You won't be well known and you won't get tons of "thank you" one-liners, but the few thanks you do get will be sincere and you'll know you're not putting money into the pockets of the biggest (and wealthiest) leeches in the scanlation hobby. You know, the ones who don't care if they personally kill the hobby because they're not investing anything in exchange for all the money they're making selling stolen property.
To the copyright debaters:
Even if we concede that everyone involved is a thief, there's only one person selling that stolen property in multiple venues so that when one is closed they can resume business elsewhere without hurting their misbegotten profits. This is not a "we're all black, you stupid kettle" issue, it's a "shoplifting vs organized crime" issue. That's why those sites will get fines and sentences, while scanlators just get an impersonal C&D email.
To the mangareader defenders:
At least pretend you feel sorry for the scanlators whose work makes those sites so appealing to you. Let them go on pretending most readers are not contemptuous leeches. Why throw it in their face? They already know you don't care. They know they're taken for granted by all the self-entitled kids who think clicking a few buttons requires too much effort. They're asking that you reassure them that you are worth all the trouble they go through in order to make manga readable to people like you. Instead you spit in their face? You might as well tell them there's no point scanlating for the current generation. I honestly don't know why scanlators bother. These sites haven't just made the hobby a thousand times more public and dangerous, they've turned the fans against the scanlators. You might be licking the hand that feeds you, but you're also urinating on the people cooking and packaging it for you. Be careful or scanlators will wise up and start tainting the food the same way some guys in the kitchen at MickeyD's do.