TargaryenX wrote:
I'm pretty sure Arthur talked him out of that. He decided to be a responsible ruler and not destroy half of the city he's supposed to protect.
Well, being beaten up by Alita in the informatic realm surely cooled him down, but he looked like he was still delaying the time of the decision. At the beginning of the fight, he said "show me!"
So I think he's still unsure about how he is going to act.
Anyway, if he doesn't do anything, he knows that whether it be Alita or Toji, the winning team is going to set Zalem and Tiphares "free". And that would be the start of a politically and socially instable era.
TargaryenX wrote:
I'm pretty sure Arthur talked him out of that. He decided to be a responsible ruler and not destroy half of the city he's supposed to protect.
Well, being beaten up by Alita in the informatic realm surely cooled him down, but he looked like he was still delaying the time of the decision. At the beginning of the fight, he said "show me!"
So I think he's still unsure about how he is going to act.
Anyway, if he doesn't do anything, he knows that whether it be Alita or Toji, the winning team is going to set Zalem and Tiphares "free". And that would be the start of a politically and socially instable era.
Zalem and scrapyard.
tiphares is already in the space society
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde)
Corporations have no soul to save, and they have no body to incarcerate. (Baron Thurlow)
An international coalition of Japanese and American-based manga publishers have joined together to combat what they call the “rampant and growing problem” of scanlations, the practice of posting scanned and translated editions of Japanese comics online without permission of the copyright holders. The group is threatening legal action against 30 scanlation sites.
The effort brings together the 36 member Japanese Digital Comic Association—which includes such major Japanese houses as Kodansha, Shogakukan and Shueisha—as well as manga publisher Square Enix, the Tuttle-Mori Agency and U.S.-based manga publishers Vertical Inc, Viz Media, Tokyopop and Yen Press, the manga/graphic novel imprint of the Hachette Book Group.
A spokesperson for the coalition said the effort shows that Japanese publishers—who license the majority of manga sold in the U.S.—are taking an aggressive interest in combating manga piracy outside of Japan as well as inside the country. The group charges that the former fan-driven practice of scanlating—begun in the 1970s to scan, translate and post manga online when it was difficult to find manga outside of Japan—has been transformed by “scanlation aggregators,” heavily trafficked, for-profit Web sites that host thousands of pirated manga editions and offer them for free to readers.
According to a spokesperson, these sites are among the most heavily trafficked sites on the web attracting millions of visits each month while earning advertising revenues and even soliciting donations and sometimes charging for memberships. The group also charges that pirated manga is now beginning to turn up on smartphones and other wireless devices through the use of apps developed “solely to link to and republish the content of scanlations sites.”
A spokesperson said that “we are left with no other alternative but to take aggressive action. It is our sincere hope that offending sites will take it upon themselves to immediately cease their activities. Where this is not the case, however, we will seek injunctive relief and statutory damages.” The group is also aggressively reporting violations to the “federal authorities, including the anti-piracy units of the Justice Department, local law enforcement agencies and FBI.” While the group has yet to file any lawsuits and has declined to name specific scanlators, sites such as MangaFox and OneManga have long been identified as major scanlation aggregators.
After several years of booming manga sales in the U.S. that drove the popularity of comics and graphic novels in the traditional book market, sales of manga in the U.S. have declined more than 30% from a high of $210 million in 2007 to $140 million in sales in 2009, according to pop culture news site ICv2.com. Many manga publishers and retailers who used to believe that scanlations actually attracted new readers, now blame the sales decline on the rise of giant for-profit scanlation sites that have allowed a new generation of fans to grow up reading manga for free online.
“Go back 2 years and track these sites and you’ll find an inverse relationship between the rise of traffic on these scanlation sites and the decline in U.S. manga sales,” said Kurt Hassler, publishing director of Yen Press and a former graphic novel and manga buyer for Borders Books and Music. Hassler points out that early fan-driven scanlation sites were aimed at making manga available overseas at a time when English translations of manga were rare. Indeed these fan scanlators would remove their online translations when the books were licensed for the English-language market.
That’s no longer the case, said Hassler. “These sites are run as businesses and include direct scans of licensed English-language manga editions. Some even include our copyright notices. We don’t want to have to do this but publishers are now focused on this problem.”
An international coalition of Japanese and American-based manga publishers have joined together to combat what they call the “rampant and growing problem” of scanlations, the practice of posting scanned and translated editions of Japanese comics online without permission of the copyright holders. The group is threatening legal action against 30 scanlation sites.
The effort brings together the 36 member Japanese Digital Comic Association—which includes such major Japanese houses as Kodansha, Shogakukan and Shueisha—as well as manga publisher Square Enix, the Tuttle-Mori Agency and U.S.-based manga publishers Vertical Inc, Viz Media, Tokyopop and Yen Press, the manga/graphic novel imprint of the Hachette Book Group.
A spokesperson for the coalition said the effort shows that Japanese publishers—who license the majority of manga sold in the U.S.—are taking an aggressive interest in combating manga piracy outside of Japan as well as inside the country. The group charges that the former fan-driven practice of scanlating—begun in the 1970s to scan, translate and post manga online when it was difficult to find manga outside of Japan—has been transformed by “scanlation aggregators,” heavily trafficked, for-profit Web sites that host thousands of pirated manga editions and offer them for free to readers.
According to a spokesperson, these sites are among the most heavily trafficked sites on the web attracting millions of visits each month while earning advertising revenues and even soliciting donations and sometimes charging for memberships. The group also charges that pirated manga is now beginning to turn up on smartphones and other wireless devices through the use of apps developed “solely to link to and republish the content of scanlations sites.”
A spokesperson said that “we are left with no other alternative but to take aggressive action. It is our sincere hope that offending sites will take it upon themselves to immediately cease their activities. Where this is not the case, however, we will seek injunctive relief and statutory damages.” The group is also aggressively reporting violations to the “federal authorities, including the anti-piracy units of the Justice Department, local law enforcement agencies and FBI.” While the group has yet to file any lawsuits and has declined to name specific scanlators, sites such as MangaFox and OneManga have long been identified as major scanlation aggregators.
After several years of booming manga sales in the U.S. that drove the popularity of comics and graphic novels in the traditional book market, sales of manga in the U.S. have declined more than 30% from a high of $210 million in 2007 to $140 million in sales in 2009, according to pop culture news site ICv2.com. Many manga publishers and retailers who used to believe that scanlations actually attracted new readers, now blame the sales decline on the rise of giant for-profit scanlation sites that have allowed a new generation of fans to grow up reading manga for free online.
“Go back 2 years and track these sites and you’ll find an inverse relationship between the rise of traffic on these scanlation sites and the decline in U.S. manga sales,” said Kurt Hassler, publishing director of Yen Press and a former graphic novel and manga buyer for Borders Books and Music. Hassler points out that early fan-driven scanlation sites were aimed at making manga available overseas at a time when English translations of manga were rare. Indeed these fan scanlators would remove their online translations when the books were licensed for the English-language market.
That’s no longer the case, said Hassler. “These sites are run as businesses and include direct scans of licensed English-language manga editions. Some even include our copyright notices. We don’t want to have to do this but publishers are now focused on this problem.”
...fan-driven scanlation sites were aimed at making manga available overseas at a time when English translations of manga were rare.
English translations of certain manga series are STILL rare! How can the puslishers consider only two countries (USA and Japan) while discussing information sources available to the whole world?
I own Battle Angel in all three formats that it's been released in.
If they released Vinland Saga in english, I'd buy them all tommorrow.
This fuss over scanlations is an overreaction, IMO.
Isidorios wrote:I own Battle Angel in all three formats that it's been released in.
If they released Vinland Saga in english, I'd buy them all tommorrow.
This fuss over scanlations is an overreaction, IMO.
I buy the Japanese edition just to pay for something.
There is NO Brazilian edition of Gunnm, and that is NOT my option.
i think they are overacting greatly..
there was issue with "Berserk" that on all sites like mangatraders or onemanga it was avaible. So Dark Horse asked sites to remove Berserk from their manga lists and stop sharing. It worked GREATLY. (now Berserk is mainly avaible only on scanlation sites or fan). So if they dont like "mass-sharing-link-sites" with mangas they could easly give admins lists of mangas that they want to be removed.
Problem occured that this sites became to large to be hosted on free-servers. So admins need money to keep whole thing runnin'. And than witch hunt begun .
Concluding, they want them to be shut. And that is throwing off baby with bath. They mostly could run own servers with low-image res mangas for promotion purpuses!! and HAVE MONEY FROM IT!! but now if they dont have it, they dont want to anyone have it.
I bet google is behind this:)
EDIT: btw. is mangatraders online ?
Art of making photos is mesured by spended time in photoshop. More means WORSE..
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