Hi, I'm relatively new in terms of posts, but have been playing osu for the past year or so (great stuff btw). The other day, while I was swimming in the depths of the internet, I realised that many people who love to read manga have no idea about some of the terrible things that have been going on. And by terrible things, I mean NOEZ.
The guys on batoto explain it way better than I do, so please take the time to read this thread: http://www.batoto.net/forums/topic/5527-mangafox-co-how-noez-does-business/?hl=%20noez.
As a scanlator myself, it really irks me when people take our hard work, slap a few of their watermarks over their low quality rips and parade it around as their work. And even worse, they rip off unsuspecting, innocent webgoers by selling their bootleg goods and using heavy advertising. So for those students out there, it would be like someone copying your A+ assignment, crossing out your name with a pencil and scribbling their own name next to it, before selling it to another student.
Doesn't make it any better that they try to pass off their bootleg goods as "free advertising for the mangaka", when obviously they're stealing revenue with their goods. So an analogy would be a craftsman, who makes beautiful, handmade sculptures to sell in order to support himself and his family. He's pretty well known and respected, and he himself is pretty proud of it. When all of a sudden, a huge ass marketplace opens outside his small shop, selling crappily made sculptures for about a quarter of the price of his, attempting to imitate his style and proudly displaying his name on it. Tourists visiting the area would be more attracted to this huge ass marketplace and super cheap prices, and so, with barely any people going his way, the craftsman is left in the dust.
I dunno about you, but that pisses me off greatly. Scanlation itself is already in a legal grey zone, I'll admit, but that doesn't mean that you should swoop in for the kill, trying to wring all the money out of someone else's pockets...
The guys on batoto explain it way better than I do, so please take the time to read this thread: http://www.batoto.net/forums/topic/5527-mangafox-co-how-noez-does-business/?hl=%20noez.
As a scanlator myself, it really irks me when people take our hard work, slap a few of their watermarks over their low quality rips and parade it around as their work. And even worse, they rip off unsuspecting, innocent webgoers by selling their bootleg goods and using heavy advertising. So for those students out there, it would be like someone copying your A+ assignment, crossing out your name with a pencil and scribbling their own name next to it, before selling it to another student.
Doesn't make it any better that they try to pass off their bootleg goods as "free advertising for the mangaka", when obviously they're stealing revenue with their goods. So an analogy would be a craftsman, who makes beautiful, handmade sculptures to sell in order to support himself and his family. He's pretty well known and respected, and he himself is pretty proud of it. When all of a sudden, a huge ass marketplace opens outside his small shop, selling crappily made sculptures for about a quarter of the price of his, attempting to imitate his style and proudly displaying his name on it. Tourists visiting the area would be more attracted to this huge ass marketplace and super cheap prices, and so, with barely any people going his way, the craftsman is left in the dust.
I dunno about you, but that pisses me off greatly. Scanlation itself is already in a legal grey zone, I'll admit, but that doesn't mean that you should swoop in for the kill, trying to wring all the money out of someone else's pockets...
", and also that they keep the images in the original high quality PNG format rather than use webcrawlers to rip them to jpg