If only these groups spent all that money in underserved areas and paying artists. Classically, they'll instead go after the people filling their own service gaps.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 30 points 7 months ago

They don't care about the artists lol it's about the distributors losing potential revenue.

[–] calavera@lemm.ee 49 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fuck them.

They take ages to localize Mangas, even famous ones like Jojo. If it wasn't for the community, Manga and Anime would have just a small fraction of attention it has today

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 22 points 7 months ago

They take ages to localize Mangas

"bUt ThEre iSn't eNoUGh IntEreSt"

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's adorable. Video you can maybe fight. Megabytes of JPGs? It is to laugh.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 7 months ago

They tried it with Tachiyomi.
Reader apps and programs are infinitely harder to recover from the just sending a lawyer to mangadex.

Anyway, they tried taking down Tachiyomi.
They bullied the maintainer successfully and the Tachiyomi team first removed the in-built functionaility for the sources then seized development on the app as a whole.
Due to Tachiyomi being FOSS (thanks again to all the devs) one of the primary maintainers forked and renamed the project :)
And now we are back to square one with Mihon :)

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Next thing you know, they'll move to a proprietary format that only opens in their exclusive apps.

[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 7 months ago

Are they going to stop printing it too? Scanlations is still a thing 😅

[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 7 months ago

piracy is a service problem~

also of note, they never account for the fact that piracy increases sales in some aspects, without piracy - anime = small. buying physical books when they come on sale for a series you read online? yes, I have a nice collection. Merch, and so forth.

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hollywood producers out there making enemies wherever they can

[–] Mikufan@ani.social 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hope they all get retaliation hacks with ransom ware that doesn't work properly and keeps the data encrypted even after payment.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm still wondering when these execs and lawyers will start getting tarred and feathered for being clowns

[–] Mikufan@ani.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean the lawyers just do their jobs, but the executives deserve it.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And they signed up for those jobs

[–] Mikufan@ani.social 1 points 7 months ago

I mean lawyers often work for big ass companies that are basically contractors themselves, so they usually signed up for a job.

[–] shani66@ani.social 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is a war on piracy in Japan? Huh. Guess the fact i haven't even noticed speaks to how well it's going.

[–] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Japan can't win the fight against piracy.

[–] Mikufan@ani.social 24 points 7 months ago

Nobody can. Its like the war on drugs, wich drugs won by all means.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 7 months ago

Yep...and with Konosuba getting leaked this will put that shit into overdrive

[–] N_Crow@leminal.space 10 points 7 months ago

Good luck at that! Says he, while knowing full well there's at least 5 tabs open right now on his tablet to websites hosting manga to read online