I am gravely disappoint.

[okroginator]

I'm sure most of you guys have heard by now, but a whole bunch of manga distributors have teamed up to start cracking down on scanlation sites. They've already hit Mangahelpers, and Onemanga is soon to follow

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[ironyaficionado]

Seriously, that is just a bad idea. I won't even ponder their stuff if they go through with all that.

[okroginator]

What they fail to realize is that removing online manga sites will not make people go, "oh, oh well, guess it's time to drop $200 at my nearest B&N to get all that manga I've been missing." No, what's going to happen is that manga fans are going to get pissed and withhold their money. I'm sure their low sales have less to do with scanlators than the fact that the economy is still shit right now, and people are cutting costs, and they can't afford to pay ten bucks a volume. I am cradling my head and moaning, "no no no you stupid shits don't do that no," as if I'm watching a horror movie instead of a bad business decision.

Not to mention they're going to lose money and productivity to the legal suits they are threatening. I can't even begin to articulate how dumb this is.

[ironyaficionado]

Next, they'll go against the people who come into bookstores, read a volume, and then put it back on the shelf. :|

[okroginator]

[ironyaficionado]

I wasn't even thinking about that. What a brilliant one you are.

At the same time, I kinda wanna leave a post-it in one of the volumes that says something equivalent to "Snape kills Dumbledore." A spoiler guard, so to speak.