Translator arrested, Red Hawk Scanalations disbands
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I am the Devil
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Quote from haru-sama
I forgot who, but someone said that even fan art is illegal, so I'm sure that scanlations are illegal, it's just that the mangaka tolerates the scanlations since most of it's usually for promotional purposes for FREE and not for profit.
probably Nick Simmons
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15 years ago
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Quote from 狂気
But isn't that only in the country the original is released?
Nope. Go look up the Berne Convention
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insomniac Kagehime
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15 years ago
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is this for real? i´m glad that my country doesn´t care about manga and stuff or some friends of mine could get arrested, too
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Quote from ShadowSakura
is this for real? i´m glad that my country doesn´t care about manga and stuff or some friends of mine could get arrested, too
It was an April Fools joke.
