[ SECRET POST #3159 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3159 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Knights Errant]


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[HeadOn]


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06. [SPOILERS for Tales of the Abyss]



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07. [WARNING for rape]



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08. [WARNING for sexual assault/harassment]



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09. [WARNING for child sexual abuse]


















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Just keep in mind that no matter how much they cry or insist, 'stealing' their scans is no worse than them stealing the original author's manga, scanning, translating and posting it on the Internet. They don't own those scans. The author does. Scanlators have no right to tell people to not upload the scans to other websites.

[(Anonymous)]

I was coming to post this exactly. I can't stand scanlators whining about "their" scans being "stolen."

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who has scanned and scanslated something myself (some doujinshi, though, not official manga), I have to agree. If I scanslated a manga, I wouldn't want my name attached to it, because it's still illegal. If the publishers found out, I wouldn't want them to find the source of the scans.

With the doujinshi I scanned, I made sure they don't spread, though, because there is the risk that if the doujinshika found out, they'd stop drawing doujinshi and that would be everyone's loss. Their goal is not making money with their doujinshi, but at the same time they can't just eat the costs, so they have to sell them for money. Spreading scans of their doujinshi is counter-productive, so I prefer it if as little as possible people have access to the scans.

[houtarouh]

I was going to type this as well and I definitely agree with all this.

[(Anonymous)]

Please keep Kageshit out of the comments section. Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, exactly.

I don't even see the point in being so protective of their scans. It's not like they're getting money out of it. Literally the only reason scanlations exist is to spread comic and doujin to people who wouldn't be able to read them otherwise. Isn't it a bit counter-productive to stop people from posting them on other sites?

[(Anonymous)]

They have to be protective because if they get found out then they could get into trouble meaning no more translations. It's a double edge sword. The fans want translations but then complain about it being hard to get, but the only way to continue is to do it under the table.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, no. Most scanlation aren't even that hard to find and most scanlators sites make very obvious what they have, so someone going after them for legal reasons would have a easy time getting proofs against them.

If they really wanted to be careful, they would be releasing them annonimously and let people to share it freely would free them from most part of the risk since it would make harder to pinpoint to original source.

[(Anonymous)]

The majority of the sites where the scans are uploaded exist solely for profit though. Obviously both the scanlator and the reposter are doing something illegal, but usually the former's goal is to make unknown series more accessible while the latter just wants to make easy money off of other people's work.

[(Anonymous)]

That's why I use Adblock on those sites!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's kinda lose-lose situation. The only way I can see translations for certain stuff is if a fan translates it, but I feel guilty because it's not something that they own.

[(Anonymous)]

If it's something you feel guilty for, just make sure to buy the official version if (and for some properties, it really is a pretty big if) it's released in your language.

Reading/watching fan translations is pretty far on the light side of morally grey, since if that's all that's available, it's not losing the creators any sales - the fans that rely on scanlations/fansubs generally don't have legitimate access to the thing at all, let alone in a language they speak.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I do.
If I see a manga is coming out in my country that I've read and enjoyed online before, I'll buy it. It may take some time, because I don't have that much money but I'll do it.
(I also much rather read it in a book format that on the computer screen, so it's a no brainer really.)

[(Anonymous)]

On the one hand, they don't own the original works. On the other hand, good scanslating takes a shit-ton of work so I get some of the protectiveness.

[(Anonymous)]

Same applies to fanfic authors who get upset that someone used one of their OCs or head-canon in another fic. Dude, you guys ripped off someone for your fanfic and thought it fair enough; now you are being fanficced and you are getting precious about it? 'kay, but you better delete your fic too.