A Rant About Doujinshi Sharing

[miezen]

Alright, bear with me here, because I'm potentially going to get a bit bitchy. I won't f-lock this entry; it needs to be heard.

Some of you may be aware that I run a small doujinshi scans comm (dolce_adagio, but this post isn't for pimping my comm). It's a one woman show that I run because I like giving back to the fandom communities that I'm a part of.

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[pharaoh_dust]

Sorry to curse on your journal, but hear fucking hear. I can't stand it when I see "TO GET THE DOWNLOAD LINK JOIN OUR COMMUNITY TEE HEE." It makes me not want to download it just out of spite. I understand wanting to control where your scans are posted, I know I like to, but like you said: Post it in the comm or don't. If you don't want it posted on the main comm, DON'T MAKE A POST ON THE MAIN COMM. Christ, people. *shakes fist*

[miezen]

For future reference, my mouth would probably put many a sailor to shame, so feel free to say fuck whenever you fucking want around here, kay~? x3

And exactly! Ugh, it's so ridiculous. I tend to join the comm and get the doujin if I really want it and then leave. It's just so asinine. I usually avoid even doing that since it ups the number of people downloading the file.

I do understand not wanting to piss off the doujinka, but there's only so much you can do. I try to make it clear that I don't want people parading about posting my doujin scans everywhere under the sun, but people will be dicks regardless, and forcing people to join your comm isn't going to do any good in that regard. I doubt if that's ever their reasoning anyway, though. I'm certain it's attention whoring.

[pharaoh_dust]

Oh good, so do I. XD

Yeah, I really don't think they give a damn about the doujinshika. Because if they gave a damn about the doujinshika, they wouldn't be scanning it in the first place. The doujinshika may not have any legal standing over their works, but let's face it: Scanning their works is kinda rude. They don't like it. It's not like they don't like it less just because you post it in a locked live journal. It's 100% e-penis. A little e-penis is okay, don't get me wrong, humans have a natural drive to feel superior to everyone else in one way or another, it's just worked into our instincts. But there's a point where you aren't exhibiting a normal level of "Look what I have, love me for it." and you're just being a dickhole. Posting to one community that you have to join another community to get something you're announcing in the first community is being a dickhole.

I may have just pissed off almost every other scanner on the main comm. XD Whatever. Hey, yall who post a JOIN US TO GET THE DOWNLOAD LINK stuff? Yall are

[miezen]

lol yay!

Exactly. My rationale is that, rude as it may be, doujinshi is printed in limited quantities and not everyone is a mental case that wants to shell out cash for it like us. And I feel a lot closer to the people I scan doujin and share with than I do the doujinka. So I'll share. Honestly I get more out of checking the download numbers on my mediafire files re; e-penis than I do who's watching my community. And yeah, once you start getting too weird about it, you're just an asshat.

Agreed. You're the only main comm scanner whose feelings I care about anyway. You're pretty much the only one that posts things which are relevant to my interests xD.

[pharaoh_dust]

We share rationales! Like I say on my site, I do it because I spend so much money on this stuff and will never sell it that if I don't share it, I feel like I wasted my money. Too bad I get to feel like I wasted money on all that YGO now, but whatever I've already ranted about that enough I get my e-penis stroking from mail on the site account. XD And links back when I find them randomly. Not that I don't check the download numbers everyday. It's just a warm feeling knowing you helped someone somewhere.

D'awwww :3 That made me feel all warm and fuzzy. I try to get only good things. XD You know you can make requests. Not that I'm suggesting there are master lists to troll through on my site or anything.

[miezen]

What happened with the YGO doujin? I missed this.

Haha, yeah, same here. And I noticed the request thing and the master lists. I'll likely make use of it sooner or later.

[pharaoh_dust]

The condensed version is: some bitch started stealing all of my YGO doujinshi scans and claiming she scanned them (Complete with giant ugly watermarks for her site. And I have ways of telling what's mine.) A couple reposted with credit but not asking would have been irksome, but whatever. All of them just pissed me off. The first time, I asked her nicely to stop and she apologized "But it's not like you drew them" (I hate that argument, because it's bullshit) and blah blah blah, whatever, let it go.

The second time, I IP banned her from the site, but she found a way around it because foolproof IP banning the easy way is, ironically, very hard.

The third time I just stopped scanning them. I'm still on the third time. (There's a whole long drama involved, but all that's posted in my LJ and I'm not going to go back into it here because it's petty.) So now I'm just scanning it for friends only if there's something they really want to see.

~fin~ (For now)

[miezen]

That is fucking ridiculous. /big hug. I can't believe anyone would be so fucking stupid. How hard is it to not claim you did something you didn't do? Sure doujin scanners don't draw the doujin ourselves, but a lot of work goes into scanning. And by her logic, it shouldn't be necessary to credit the original circles that did the doujin, since they didn't create the characters themselves =|. I totally understand and support your decision.

[pharaoh_dust]

*Hugs* Thanks, hun. Shit happens sometimes, I feel much worse for the YGO fans that come to my site. I have other things to scan, patience, and yadda yadda. They want things.

Ever wish you just had a shotgun?

[miezen]

I hear you there. Shotguns certainly do sound appealing sometimes.