He probably doesn't give a shit about these "possible" legal pressure.

I mean, it's not like a C&D has real power if it's not from a judge (and I'm not even sure they got one).

As we did before.

I wouldn't mind if they took down the licensed manga, but the unlicensed ones would be nearly impossible to find an official english version ..and less likely to get popular

Go mangaka.

For those of us who've been reading manga for 2 years or more, this makes very little difference. The recent hard-line approach to scanlations by the publishers is because of these on-line readers, simply because they are so high-profile and are often only there to make money. This changes something done by fans for fans into simple theft and I can't blame the publishers for getting angry about it. I know MangaTosh wasn't like that but it was one of only a few run in the right way. I always preferred to download scanlations anyway - especially the unlicensed ones because I often re-read them and they often disappear from the net.
Hopefully this purge of the readers will return things to normal once more. Though I'm sorry to see MT go, I'll be glad to see the back of the others.

I wouldn't mind if every manga online reader and every scanlation site in the world went down. What we're doing is ILLEGAL, don't you people get it? Fun, but still illegal.

Cool story bro.

If you were to go there and come back to me hurt, I will take your place.. and pull everything you hate.. into destruction...
I will erase anything that hurts you.. from the face of this world.

Well atleast if we do have to go all IRC then some of the bare-minimum leechers will finally learn to use it. And it will purge all the ones that don't..

Everything is going back to the old ways. Nothing changed for me 🙂

I agree, I don't mind/understand why the licensed ones are getting deleted but for the non-licensed ones...

There are bigger sites to go after. Something is wrong unless ALL sites are doing the same thing.

Very bad advice - DVDs don't last long, so "in the long run" it is very much not worth it; searching for things on those DVDs takes an eternity - you have to diligently keep an index, otherwise it is usually much faster to just re-download what you want. Space on DVDs is also more expensive than on HDD, and a lot of it is wasted(since you don't write precisely 4.5G).

I think it's an evil plan where they'll take down every online reader but leave narutofan up. Then you'll be forced to choose, between the one you once called enemy, and them.

Here's hoping Openmanga is a success.

Sinsl is right. I learned the hard way. I used to store fansubs on DVD and had around 200. After a couple of years I went back to them to rewatch something and found around 30% of them partially or wholly unreadable. The cheapest and safest storage at the moment is an external HD that you can just plug in and use as and when, and to extend their lifetime, only use them to copy a title from and read/watch it from your internal HD, that way there's minimal wear & tear on the drives and they should last many years.

Guess we know who works for a publishing company.

ironically i actualy wrote an essey in which the whole naruto fan issue was half of it.

and now when they finally do something...... firstly this whole ordeal would have been great material for that paper. don't get me wrong i love the community and proud to be part of it.

and why the hell is narutofan still up and running!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it should just fade into oblivion !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it gives us all the worst image.

i have read just about 75% of all the manga translated so far but if i actually paid for it who knows where I'd be financially. OUR HOBBY IS FAR TOO EXPENSIVE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE LEGALLY AND STILL BE OK...

THEN again I'M 17.