A PSA from September Scans:
"Hey guys,
Just a signal boost here and a request for help!
Yaoi-Sei is a rather infamous group that likes to go around stealing other groups’ work, claiming it as their own without credit, and reposting against groups’ explicit requests not to. They are most definitely one of the main reasons we’ve cracked down on our sharing, yet they’ve gone out of their way to still download pieces from our servers to share against our wishes.
You can see that they’re reviled by the scanlation community simply from a quick google search:
http://chularin.tumblr.com/post/6482953153/just-wanted-to-make-everyone-aware-of-this-problem
http://yaoi-releases.tumblr.com/post/72994645938/to-all-scanlation-groups-out-there
http://bangaqua.livejournal.com/109752.html
We’ve contacted them in the past with explicit, well-worded requests for them to take down our projects, explaining our reasoning, but were ignored and ridiculed, much like every other group that has asked to have their work removed.
Their site is at yaoi-sei.tumblr.com and yaoi-sei.com, and their links are publicly hosted on sites like box.com and mega. If you can, please pass the word along and do whatever you can to report the links. If anyone has any info on their IP address as well, I’d love to be able to block them from our servers.
We’ll be adding watermarks in the future to specifically call out this weed in our lovely quiet garden so that anyone who downloads from them knows they’re very much not approved of.
If we can get this asshole to stop ignoring our requests, we’ll be glad to go back to our old way of sharing-and if they continue this, we may have to take even further action, such as not sharing our scans publicly at all. Their actions are reprehensible and are a black mark on the whole community, not just annoying to us. Please do what you can to help!"