Dec 31, 2007 12:00
- Baka-Updates: Most groups (or individuals) update this service with new releases, and many groups provide information for http downloads. (In fact, sign up for an account and use their awesome filtering tool (here's mine) to color code BL genre related releases - depending upon what color you use, it will look something like this).
- boekifuu for download
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[dangerous pleasure],
[storm in heaven],
[hanashi],
free_manga,
[onadoru euphoria],
[the blanket fort],
[blast],
[forever-more],
-http downloads,
[polaris],
[sweet-lunacy],
[tsuyu],
[biblo eros],
[things you like],
[ramsus-kun],
[otakupink],
redmadness,
[yasca],
[dokidoki],
[game over or continue],
[datenshi blue],
[peccatore sanctuary],
boyslust,
[liquid passion],
evil empire,
[shi-ran],
[andante-peach],
[bliss],
yaoievangelists,
[obsession],
[sakura-crisis],
[kagami],
[volyund],
[secret garden],
manga_luve,
[megkf],
[aarinfantasy],
[blissful sin],
[nakama],
[chibitora],
[loveless],
[attractive fascinante],
[aku-tenshi],
[memory for you],
[fantasyshrine],
[aoilevelina]
this post is a great resource, btw. maybe you should date it to sometime in the distant future so it's always at the top instead of disappearing as you post more?
stupid people. just because we differ from them on the point of sharing doesn't mean we have crap ethics in general. sheesh. i sometimes wonder whether none of those people _have_ a logically consistent ethical system for themselves, and that's why they can't tell when somebody else does. it seems one small violation of their rules allows them to go totally overboard in their response. that's not ethics, that's egotism. not to say that i never would rat somebody out, but the stakes have got to be pretty high for that to seem like an ethical thing to do. and the stakes here? virtually non-existent.
19? *gah*. i wish. i mean, not really, cause i was NOT happy at 19, *wry grin*. 19 with what i know now would rock. there would be so much less drama in my life. sometimes i wish real life had save points.
this time i am doing IRC really differently from before. i don't sign onto any channels where i know friends hang out (because that would suck away all my time). i just pop in to scanlator channels, find the bot that has my files, grab them, wave thanks, and go away. that's really against the original spirit of IRC, but so far i don't feel guilty. and the cute little mac program i use makes it all very easy.
and i'm nearly done building the non-LJ site. just to make some smart templates now and put together a couple decent RSS feeds for it. and maybe make it prettier, though that can probably wait.
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You know every time you (or oryssein) writes something on this subject, I want to cut and paste it and say, see, why doesn't everyone understand this? But, I'm (slowly, oh-so-slowly) learning what seems logical and commonsense to me, I should be explaining and putting disclaimers all over the place.
1.) I don't ever change file contents, I don't want to, I like the files how they were originally released. (I'm such a stickler about these, I even like having the different versions, mistakes/changes and all!)
2.) I WANT to give credit to scanlators. I don't personally want or need it. Never have, never will. I don't believe uploading a frickin' file is that much work, and I truly want to support others. But, I've seen even the most benign of things twisted. (I try and provide an easy way for people to leave feedback for a group to help ENCOURAGE feedback, and it's construed as me trying to get people to attack them because they called me names (or whatever the reason was). Even though the link to the shoutbox (yes, I'm talking about EoP) was on their posts BEFORE they ever knew about my journal. And totally disregarding that I put similar things on other group posts.)
3. I don't fucking rat people out. Me. Rat people out. Right. What's there for me to rat out? Seriously? Wouldn't I have to sort of feel like something being done was wrong? Or be inclined to engage in that behavior? (I've had founders of a group share private personal information about myself that only they knew with god knows how many people, who in turned posted some of that on their websites and journals (and even went so far as to use it to track down my name and then create a LJ with that name for the sole purpose of posting on my journal to warn me off). They've discussed flooding me with scripts, signing my emails up for porn/spam sites, and other thug-like behavior. And what did I do in return? Nothing. Other than what I was doing in the first place, which was sharing their IRC-only releases on my journal.)
[Man, you caught me in a rare rant-mood, which I'm probably going to totally regret later, so if I screen this, it's only because I like the relative quietness of the journal these days.]
I can't WAIT to see your site. And seriously, if I can do anything to help, I'm all over that!
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