silverado writes: *In regard to the recent anti-piracy activities in the film, music and manga industry I've decided to write this post as a warning to all website owners who are currently hosting scanlations or fansubs to think twice about a take down request!
The publishers made their move and it's now up the community and admins to make ours. Despite many rumors and confusion there is one thing we can tell for sure: Going to court is the worst of all possible scenarios!
If the scanlation community wants to survive and maintain the freedom they are enjoying now, it is of utmost importance that all US online manga viewing sites comply with the publisher's take down requests. Because it takes only one loss in court to create a leading case to make scanlations officially and forever illegal. For the first time in history is the creation and hosting of scanlations threatened. Do you remember Morpheus P2P or Kazaa? Winny or ShareEX2? File sharing was tolerated until it grew too big to be neglected by the industry. This is the same. If this case gets through, there will be no gray-zone, no tolerance, no tolerated hosting anymore! A loss in court will result in a wide spread trickle-down effect on all US webhosting providers. Scanlations will be seen as cancer that has to be cut out and pursued. Hosting scanlations, even unlicensed material will be classified as illegal software. Webhosting accounts will be banned, IPs might be given out to find the uploader. This is all a real threat and it pains me to say that this is legally possible and a very probable scenario. So if you all want to continue reading scanlations from your favorite group, stop whining about it and start supporting your admin's decision to take down licensed series! We all are carrying the moral responsibility to set the legal environment for future scanlations! So support your admins decisions to take down manga! As for the admins, think twice before you don't comply to a take down notice. The best solution for the scanlation community and the corporation is to cooperate exist next to each other. Don't force them to use legal weapons of mass destruction. It's a lose-lose situation for all of us.
"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious." - Sun Tzu
silverado*
One Manga will be closing its manga doors in about a week's time. The forum there will still function though.
Who is next to go? Us?... ><
I hope not...
Edit: Yes, 1000manga is closing also
Slightly old news, but MangaToshokan is taking down most of their manga and will instead focus on manhwa and manhua. If you used their site, they are asking that you take a survey for them. Go to their website for more information.
So how many of you are lucky (unlucky?) enough to be in a relationship? This reason why it's such an awkward poll this week is because I don't like any of the current suggestions, so I randomly came up with something simple. (And no forum thread for it this week)
We need your poll ideas, such suggest them here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: If you were in an anime, what would be your hair color?
Choices:
Bald - votes: 262 (1.5%)
Black - votes: 4617 (26.1%)
Brown - votes: 1913 (10.8%)
Red - votes: 1564 (8.8%)
Orange - votes: 463 (2.6%)
Blue - votes: 1647 (9.3%)
Purple - votes: 1219 (6.9%)
White - votes: 2928 (16.5%)
Pink - votes: 523 (3%)
Yellow - votes: 600 (3.4%)
Green - votes: 538 (3%)
Multicolored - votes: 894 (5%)
Other - votes: 548 (3.1%)
There were 17716 total votes.
The poll ended: July 16th 2010
Black and white... you guys are so boring...
This fun poll on hair color was suggested by our member Hespia Klarerin. Fun random ones are good once in a while~
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=19661
You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Have you ever had anything autographed/drawn by a mangaka?
Choices:
No, I never tried to get one - votes: 4111 (34.8%)
No, I've never had the chance to - votes: 4628 (39.2%)
No, but I have something anime/manga related from non-mangaka - votes: 407 (3.4%)
No, I don't care about that stuff - votes: 1941 (16.4%)
Yes, I have at least one object signed - votes: 338 (2.9%)
Yes, I have at least one object drawn - votes: 144 (1.2%)
Yes, I have several of both types - votes: 132 (1.1%)
Yes, I try to collect as many as I can! - votes: 112 (0.9%)
There were 11813 total votes.
The poll ended: July 10th 2010
Well, most people have an interest, but no access. Most things are like that in this world unfortunately...
For those of us people in America, happy Independence Day! I'm actually home for this day for the first time in 3-4 years, so I'll finally be able to watch fireworks with them~
If anyone has had login issues over the last few days, please try re-logging in now. I had changed some things around that apparently didn't go well for everyone.
Thanks
This new poll was suggested by mrs_choco. Apparently it was partially influenced by our most recent AnimeExpo poll. I bet some of you have some great collections of signed stuff. Signed manga by CLAMP, signed DVDs, etc.
You want to tell us what loot you have? Drop on by our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=19515
You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results
Question: Planning to attend AnimeExpo this year?
Choices:
Yes way! - votes: 434 (3.9%)
I wish I could go... - votes: 6553 (58.4%)
No way - votes: 1899 (16.9%)
What's AnimeExpo? - votes: 2333 (20.8%)
There were 11219 total votes.
The poll ended: July 3rd 201
For the lucky few going, I hope you all enjoy it! Visiting an anime convention is definitely an experience
AnimeExpo anyone? Held July 1-4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California, United States. I unfortunately can't attend this year, as I have some other business to attend to 🙁
Have fun without me...
You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results
Question: Who do you think was the best at E3?
Choices:
Microsoft - votes: 1019 (8.8%)
Nintendo - votes: 3367 (29%)
Sony - votes: 1883 (16.2%)
What's E3? - votes: 5338 (46%)
There were 11607 total votes.
The poll ended: June 26th 2010
Well, ignoring those people who don't know what E3 is (shame on you), It seems to me that the majority of people liked Nintendo the most~
PS: Dang it, USA lost vs. Ghana. Again... I'll admit, that was a good 2nd point, but it still sucks for us
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