Most of the sites listed in the fight tazmo are kinda the same thing? 'cept for the fact that rather than using a pay system they use ads, so don't they also profit off of scanlators? I'm not supporting tazmo just pointing something out.

Those ads generate enough cash to pay for the site.
Tazmo gets enough cash to buy a divan sofa and
a HD TV.

Tazmo removes the Credit pages, so Scanlators don't even get publicity o.o

and you can guess he removes rants too, what use is to rant if no one will listen you 😛

also Mams is right, ads normally only give enough to pay the site, tazmo gets a lot more than that >_>

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Those ads generate enough cash to pay for the site.
Tazmo gets enough cash to buy a divan sofa and
a HD TV.

What he said.

Far-off places with sweet sounding names.

It's well known in the community that Tazmo benefit big time using other people works. People like him must be stopped. If you look other sites they use the little money they make to keep alive but Tazmo charges you and even delete the credit pages making them look like he did the work himself. That's not helping the community that stealing money.
The money he steals could be used to pay translators and do the work he steals from others more legally.
I hope now you understand the difference between Tazmo and the other sites, if you didn't know it already.

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and left the building.

..When I was a no0b in downloading manga releases off the internet, I stumbled across his site and I honestly thought that I HAVE TO PAY to get ANY manga releases off the internet.

and then, I found STOPTAZMO.com and mangatraders.com. Then, I knew that Tazmo's site is a Scam.

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Those ads generate enough cash to pay for the site.
Tazmo gets enough cash to buy a divan sofa and
a HD TV.

is a benz included in that O.O

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I honestly thought that I HAVE TO PAY to get ANY manga releases off the internet..

Haha. pats =)

Far-off places with sweet sounding names.

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I honestly thought that I HAVE TO PAY to get ANY manga releases off the internet..

Haha. pats =)

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Was this a real question? Or were you just thinking stoptazmo sites were essentially as bad as Tazmo? Sites that host manga scanlations actually do remember to give credit where it's due, which means they're just helpful distributors.

Sites that en mass manga usually remove credit to:

1. Keep the target audience in the dark about the original source, so they can't just go directly to it (effectively cutting out the middle man).
2. Make it look as though they did the work themselves.
3. Make a profit as a result of 1) and 2)

It's basically like a retailer who refuses to tell you where the manufacturer is.

On another note, Tazmo isn't genius. He isn't even good semi-competent at what he does. He just happens to be one of the few scums on the net who've attempted to exploit a selfless community. If the manga community had more people like him, it would have fallen apart long ago what with nobody willing to do jackshit without money involved.

See how this works? He isn't helping the community by promoting the culture. On the contrary, he's destroying it. With regards to that, he shouldn't even be compared to the stoptazmo sites, since they only get enough revenue to breakeven from ads, he generates actual profit (He can cover his expenses and splurge the rest on luxuries that aren't even related to his site).

Scanlations in general are illegal because of licensing rights, but there hasn't been much objection because the people who do the scanlations don't charge for their work, so they don't get any monetary benefits from their work. Scanlators, in general encourage you to buy the original. Tazmo's site is basically saying, don't bother with the original when you can just pay a fee and get everything he provides you online (I don't know if he claims what he does is more legal than free scanlations, but it sure as hell isn't if he's trying to make it seem like it).

On another note, someone must really tell me why there hasn't been attacks on his domain. I don't imagine he's competent in running his little illegal scamming shithole's security, and I imagine there are plenty hostile at him trying to destroy the community that's been built off of people's blood, sweat, and tears. That said, someone really should infiltrate his forums and sites, and tell the people who are being scammed by him of the alternative FREE sources available to them.

you guys are pretty funny. If tazmo charges money than that is a problem, but lots of sites uses a donation system and make you pay a certain amount before they do a chapter.

OR else that they say that you should give them a monthly fee for you to download unlimited.

Essentially this is the same as tazmo as the money goes to make the downloading process easier.

So, just my two cent, any site that asks for money in anyway is basically the same as tazmo. You can think it as some thing different it's not.

as for credit, the only people that deserve credit is the company that either publish or licensed it.

just scanning a few pages is not the same as drawing, typing a couple of words is not the same as thinking up the story and spending a couple bucks on raws is not the same as paying artists or licensing the manga which cause quite frankly more than a few dollars.

Before you flame and say I never scanned anything I have translated, edit, and watever else that needed to be done.

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On another note, someone must really tell me why there hasn't been attacks on his domain. I don't imagine he's competent in running his little illegal scamming shithole's security, and I imagine there are plenty hostile at him trying to destroy the community that's been built off of people's blood, sweat, and tears. That said, someone really should infiltrate his forums and sites, and tell the people who are being scammed by him of the alternative FREE sources available to them.

I'm also wondering this, people on the net seem to hate on, and flood specific sites, but shouldn't tazmo be a large target as well? I still don't understand how people are still being fooled by tazmo tbh. I can't see why people don't explore the internet rather then sticking to one source...

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just scanning a few pages is not the same as drawing, typing a couple of words is not the same as thinking up the story and spending a couple bucks on raws is not the same as paying artists or licensing the manga which cause quite frankly more than a few dollars.

if all people like you, no one will translate manga. And us who din't know japan language wouldn't not understand the story. >:-(

lemondude- some sites stated that donations is not necessary and that they don't need it in anyway shape or form (ex: null and mangaheaven)
and almost all of them suggest to buy manga from publisher..

I do buy, I don't know about you, but if you are not.. then why the hell even bother to give your 2 cents.. we don't need it..

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lemondude- some sites stated that donations is not necessary and that they don't need it in anyway shape or form (ex: null and mangaheaven)
and almost all of them suggest to buy manga from publisher..

**I do buy, I don't know about you, but if you are not.. then why the hell even bother to give your 2 cents.. we don't need it.. **

lol truth, honestly it's a shame when someone who leeches doesn't appreciate what he's getting. it actually is a lot of work for a scanslation team to do manga chapters, for a lot of reasons. what they're doing is called editing and for free to boot. whether it's from translating to changing the type face there are people who have a profession on doing something like this. if you enjoy reading manga from scans then you should at least show some understanding on what they do. it's a waste of "2 cents" to say something that has no backing.

anyway my take on the Tazmo thing is there's really no simple clear cut solution to dealing with him. he could be taken care of and gotten rid off by the companies that license them. but then again once they do something like that then the hammer would come down on all scanslation teams too. it's too much intertwining going on with the manga community that hasty moves crush pretty much all of it. the real only way to fight tazmo right now is just to let everyone know his actions basically. that's about as delicate it can get to deal with the problem.

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