I kinda knew this would happen when we had mangafox making a whole new counterfeit shop selling anime stuff illegally, opening more mangareaders here and there, getting much more infamous/famous on the net. Yes yes I'm envious cuz they earn money on free stuff illegally and I don't...sigh

Today I decided to go read some manga at frankyhouse (for people who only use mangafox; it's was a huge scanlation place for diverse manga in the ol' days) and I saw this:
http://franky-house.com/

I guess they(YouKnowWho) started to come after us...instead of taking out the huge distributors they are going after the makers of the scans.

This probably wouldn't happen if we didn't have huge mangafox adds here and there on the net just pointing: "Here, we are!"

A good thing I stopped scanlating already...still it will hurt the scanlation community and the end users (that's you, readers/leechers) when they stop the production of scanlations. This is kinda what you get when you keep your "I don't care"-attitude or "I'm ****ing tired of you"-attitude when scanlation groups cry and whine to you for support. I know you are tired but when you can't understand it with words, you will just have to feel how it is....sadly it's the licensing companies that will make you feel the pain, it will be too late to regret and go back to the wonderful times where they looked the other way.

The future of scanlation does look grim eh?

Good luck, Franky house. I hope it goes well...though I would have you to stop since it's not worth fighting anymore. 😛

This must be just a case of server being shut down due to illegal content.

Your whole post is based on assumptions and the title is pure sensationalism. The worst that could've happened is that FH got a C&D, which is nothing special.

Refrain from feeding the mass hysteria. We had enough groups quitting giving blame on things that existed for the past 5 years, and fueling it like this won't bring any good.

Member of FoOlRulez and head coder of the FoOlSlide project.

Huh.... wasn't there already a thread like this before...?

Blargh. Oh well.

Anway, I think scanlations will keep going as long as there are individuals willing to volunteer their time to do it.

To me, it doesn't seem grim. ._.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/cWeUK2w.png[/img]

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You are like the dense main character in a shoujo manga.

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And you will murder someone one day, pika. If you're my daughter.

I would agree with you if not for
"ACTA could also allow member countries to introduce the so-called three-strikes rule, requiring ISPs to shut off service to subscribers who continue to download or share material protected by copyright after receiving two warnings."

Something that was signed on 1st of this month by many countries...well the west and some other countries including South Korea and Japan.

So yes I assume based on those things when I see that message on FH. I'm that bad, sorry. I know I should wait for when/if it happens to others...

Btw what's wrong with them quitting and blaming on things that existed for the past 5 years? Never had a boss that kept nagging you for 5 years and then you get enough and just quit? 😛

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Huh.... wasn't there already a thread like this before...?

Blargh. Oh well.

Anway, I think scanlations will keep going as long as there are individuals willing to volunteer their time to do it.

To me, it doesn't seem grim. ._.

I hope so 😀

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Refrain from feeding the mass hysteria.

Nonsense, mass hysteria leads to PANIC! and people running around like headless chicken and that never ceases to amuse me.

What part of "Please do not put in huge images!" did you fail to understand?

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To me, it doesn't seem grim. ._.

In my opinion, grim is not the future of scanlation, but its nature, because we have no rights – not that we should have any. There's no way this community could ever be bright, because, if we were, we'd be organized crime.

I welcome scattered will that scanlators have, and therefore their independence. Nothing is more important than that, because it would be impossible for a community like scanlation to have a common rail. I, for one, wouldn't join a regulated group of copyright infringers.

Member of FoOlRulez and head coder of the FoOlSlide project.

I wonder if we are in the Golden age of scanlation, Manga and Anime or if we are past it and it’s just us not seeing the black clouds lurking in the horizon
in Lawrence Lessig book “Code and Law in cyberspace”
the author argue that the libertarian nature of the Net must not be taken for granted and that 5 minutes in the Future the Net will be regulated by the States & Companies for their own benefits ( the world after 9/11 seems more to have done backward in Freedom rights) , so it looks like the freedom of downloading & reading is at stake
the book itself is under Creative Commons license so feel free to download it at
http://codev2.cc/