Youtube will be no trouble - it won't shut down obviously, but it will remove copyrighted material. It probably, in fact, has a small room of people whose sole job is to sift through requests to remove copyrighted material, and remove said material.

But that's just it. Youtube is already removing copyright material. I should know, I have a hard time finding anything there nowadays, but you can find stuff on Crunchyroll.

Sorcha: it was a hypothetical situation. I don't think they can get Chinese sites to shut down in the first place. But even if they do, for example if the Chinese find them too troublesome, the Chinese would just open another site later. xD

It's affect to uploaders and scanlators even upload sites.

damn!.

honestly, my country doesn't LC manga that i want to read, even they were LC in my country, it was very super slow to translate. [pickled manga]


my oases all gone.sad

Ah... Some of the high-quality manga in Batoto will fucking gone.

RIP batoto.

I think that all they are doing is diminishing their readership. They are only going to hurt their business. Piracy is one of the best advertisements out there! I understand that piracy isn't the most legal form of advertising not to mention it can hurt sales (& etc.) but I think that in some cases piracy can be a form of praise (as warped as that may seem). The more a specific contented is pirated, the more demand that content is monopolizing.
Plus, we as readers from a different country, don't have the opportunity to tryout different content. For example, the way we can test out a movie in a theater to see if we want to own a copy ourselves. Or a more relevant example is the magazines that Japan sells with a collection of titles.
Also, I think they're just upset that the scanlation teams can do a better job than the people they hire.

I have to agree finding a non-pirated site that compiles a lot of manga is NOT going to happen. Now, if i have to go to a few different sites, I won't mind that so much. And of course I'd rather read for free but I would be okay supporting the authors and all others involved. They put in a whole lot of work and rewarding them for that work is fair.
Although, that new "Line Webtoon" Naver setup sucks! The translations are rather poor and the manhwa itself is so large you can hardly read it without getting motion sick! If sites are to be setup with this kind of quality I'd rather go with the motion-sickness-free piracy!
But that brings up the topic of the content that isn't licensed and is never licensed. There are many quality titles that are ignored because they weren't real popular in the country of origin. There are billions of people in the world! What people in one country didn't like, people in other might. Not to mention, just because it's "popular" doesn't mean it's any good. It's just more of a habit than a desire to keep reading.
I do subscribe to site (inkblazers.com) that lets free users view a portion of a comic then asks for you to pay to view the remaining of that comic. (I say comic because it's not manga or manhwa, etc ... and I'm not familiar with the various equivalents. You should try it though. I'm currently in love with Stray Dog!) They do add a page a day to the free user content but they work directly with the authors so... I don't know if that would work for the giant industry in Japan but it's a valid alternative to outright piracy IMO.

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Oh god, that list is hilarious. TPB? KAT? DM5? My sides are aching I'm surprised bakabt isn't on that list though.

lover-fighter: For official/legal sites, there is also Tapastic, by the way. Some of Daum's webtoons are translated and uploaded there. The author of Trace 2 actually asked and got the group that used to scanlate it to translate Trace 2 for Tapastic (and they're doing a Much better job than Naver's team, I must say).

Tapastic's interface sucks though. I wish it weren't horribly bloated.

well they already said they would only remove licensed manga, which they already do most of the time anyway because groups translating these are either not acknowledged or they got a dcma complaint already (Big 3 and stuff like that).
And If you think about the attention Horimiya got from the manga community here and the fact that it isn't licensed... most of the good stuff is like that "fortunately".


ah ok so that LINE webtoon thing wasn't some problem with my browser... I always get a headache reading that stuff...

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This will only stop normal people from reading these manga. Us criminals will still find ways to read everything.

Do they also plan to take down webtoons, manhwa and manhua as well because they don't have any real connection to Japan because they are from countries other than Japan so will these types also be affected or no

they list a some of the sites but is there a list of the titles?

one that probably isn't complete yet:
http://manga-anime-here.com/list

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Mangafreak, i think What they mean is to protect their country products so... they (jap goverment) can't do a thing about other countries products, naver and those webtoons sites are safe as long as they dont show japanese products without authorization.

Hm, are they focussing on titles that are licensed in English anyways, or are there many unlicensed ones among the series I don't know?

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