Dante Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Alot of Manga sites are being shut down by joint U.S. / Japan publishers' coalition against online piracy. Manga sites going/gone are; OneManga Manga Traders Manga Toshokan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 This kind of enforcement usually works... right? It worked for music, movies, software, games and many other copyright based industries. It should work even better with such mainstream products such as manga that doesn't even offer alternatives as good as the previously mentioned industries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Good Job industry! This will increase sales tenfold! They can't even keep The Pirate Bay shut down and it's one of the most widely known torrent trackers. In fact, I read that a Swedish ISP will host TBP now and be protected by Swedish Parliament. I don't see Manga really disappearing. Hell, it's not like Anime has become scare online either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 So not so much "goodbye manga" as "goodbye illegally read manga"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellmeister Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 But I liked reading the illegal manga! Where can I go now for my fixes, I can't afford to buy them all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wesley Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Oh no! Where will I find poor stories about girls in short skirts that are all definitely above 18? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Turning a page feels immensely better than a click anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debug Mode Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 (edited) I have a pretty extensive manga collection on the shelf to my left (200 volumes or so now), this is going to bite them so hard on the ass I can't even imagine.. Unless they come up with some digital distribution which is no where near as expensive as the average RRP for a volume (Which is £6.99), then they still aren't going to see an increase in sales. Square Enix have started an online service giving people free access to the first chapters of many of it's Gangan titles, not sure whether they will continue to sell chapters on the medium though.. I guess they just want a stab at the online manga giants, which I applaud to be honest, not only do these fuckers make money from advertisement revenue for hosting illegal content which is a very niche market, they even slap the faces of those who translated it, which are just die hard fans within a small community picking up the language or translating as a hobby, considering how far behind our releases are, it's a popular hobby to be able to understand and inform people of the progress the plot is making. Here's to hoping now the online manga giants have gone, the idiots who used it start buying it. (although I'l still be sticking to communities that remove chapters more than 3 weeks old) But the main problem is, how are you going to convince people who are so adjusted to reading it for free, to get up to date with a series such as Naruto. All the volumes could cost £200 and over as it stands.. Edited July 23, 2010 by Debug Mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Oh no! Where will I find poor stories about girls in short skirts that are all definitely above 18? Somewhere deep in the recesses of your extremely narrow mind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Somewhere deep in the recesses of your extremely narrow and already perverted mind? Fixorcated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wesley Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Somewhere deep in the recesses of your extremely narrow mind? Ah com'on, joke and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tissue Town Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Man, I guess that's the end of piracy in the Manga industry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnas Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 While I understand why this happened, it still saddens me, as manga tends to be expensive. Not to mention all the manga that will go on untranslated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 The stuff that would otherwise go untranslated will probably slip through the net a little better, as it means it's not licensed by Viz or any other major US manga publisher. The cost is the real issue here. Each Naruto volume (10 chapters) costs about £4-5 and there's 50ish volumes now, so the > £200 Debug mentioned is no exaggeration. As a comparison, in Japan Weekly Shonen Jump costs about ¥250 (about £1.85), cheaper if subscribed, and gets you a new chapter of 22 different manga every week. So for about 1/3 of the cost you get more than double the manga content. It's the same argument as was had with CDs/music piracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wesley Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 I always thought that these companies would have embraced digital distribution by now. I assumed that comics were mainly sold through eBook readers, iPads, regular websites, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald Emblem Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 I buy most of my manga online, since a lot of manga is cheaper than a book shop chain like Waterstones. But still, when put into the perspective Shorty posted, surely they could give us who buy it better value for money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadKill Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Oh no! Where will I find poor stories about girls in short skirts that are all definitely above 18? deadfrog :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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