I don't know how many people on my flist were members/watchers of scans_daily, but, sadly, the community has been suspended. Yes, the legality of it has been in question, but in the end, it got more people to shell out money for comics than it encouraged piracy.
Here is
schmevil's post about it, where everyone has flocked to:
http://schmevil.livejournal.com/161736.html It seems this started because of a CBR link and Peter David, here's his take on it:
http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/index.html I'm going to save my full response to this whole business for a future entry, it needs to settle in with me first, but I just thought I'd let everyone know.