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Coalition with Japan's Digital Comic Association plans legal action on 30 scanlation sites

An international coalition of Japanese and American-based manga publishers have joined together to combat what they call the “rampant and growing problem” of scanlations, the practice of posting scanned and translated editions of Japanese comics online without permission of the copyright holders. The group is threatening legal action against 30 scanlation sites.

The effort brings together the 36 member Japanese Digital Comic Association—which includes such major Japanese houses as Kodansha, Shogakukan and Shueisha—as well as manga publisher Square Enix, the Tuttle-Mori Agency and U.S.-based manga publishers Vertical Inc, Viz Media, Tokyopop and Yen Press, the manga/graphic novel imprint of the Hachette Book Group.

A spokesperson for the coalition said the effort shows that Japanese publishers—who license the majority of manga sold in the U.S.—are taking an aggressive interest in combating manga piracy outside of Japan as well as inside the country. The group charges that the former fan-driven practice of scanlating—begun in the 1970s, fans later began to scan, translate and post manga online at a time when it was difficult to find manga outside of Japan—has been transformed by “scanlation aggregators,” heavily trafficked, for-profit Web sites that host thousands of pirated manga editions and offer them for free to readers.

According to a spokesperson, these sites are among the most heavily trafficked sites on the web attracting millions of visits each month while earning advertising revenues and even soliciting donations and sometimes charging for memberships. The group also charges that pirated manga is now beginning to turn up on smartphones and other wireless devices through the use of apps developed “solely to link to and republish the content of scanlations sites.”

A spokesperson said that “we are left with no other alternative but to take aggressive action. It is our sincere hope that offending sites will take it upon themselves to immediately cease their activities. Where this is not the case, however, we will seek injunctive relief and statutory damages.” The group is also aggressively reporting violations to the “federal authorities, including the anti-piracy units of the Justice Department, local law enforcement agencies and FBI.” While the group has yet to file any lawsuits and has declined to name specific scanlators, sites such as MangaFox and OneManga have long been identified as major scanlation aggregators.

After several years of booming manga sales in the U.S. that drove the popularity of comics and graphic novels in the traditional book market, sales of manga in the U.S. have declined more than 30% from a high of $210 million in 2007 to $140 million in sales in 2009, according to pop culture news site ICv2.com. Many manga publishers and retailers who used to believe that scanlations actually attracted new readers, now blame the sales decline on the rise of giant for-profit scanlation sites that have allowed a new generation of fans to grow up reading manga for free online.

“Go back 2 years and track these sites and you’ll find an inverse relationship between the rise of traffic on these scanlation sites and the decline in U.S. manga sales,” said Kurt Hassler, publishing director of Yen Press and a former graphic novel and manga buyer for Borders Books and Music. Hassler points out that early fan-driven scanlation sites were aimed at making manga available overseas at a time when English translations of manga were rare. Indeed these fan scanlators would remove their online translations when the books were licensed for the English-language market.

That’s no longer the case, said Hassler. “These sites are run as businesses and include direct scans of licensed English-language manga editions. Some even include our copyright notices. We don’t want to have to do this but publishers are now focused on this problem.”

Sumber: Publishersweekly
             :Anime News Network

Senarai laman-laman web skanlasi yang telah dan akan dihalang daripada menerbitkan manga-manga online secara percuma.


1. Mangatoshokan
2. Onemanga
3. Mangahelpers

Neraka Bulan

Wahhh!!:cry:

Adakah ini adalah maknanya kita tidak dapat lagi membaca manga-manga seperti Naruto, One Piece etc seperti biasa lagi? Aku harap ini tidak akan terjadi.

Korang perasan tak Mangastream membuang kebanyakan episod-episod lama? Aku rasa ini mungkin taktik untuk menghalang daripada ditutup sepenuhnya.

Kia_picanto

http://mangahelpers.com/news/details/377


mangahelpers dah buang semua scanlation manga yg ada dan skrg mereka cuma tumpukan pada translation.
Sekarang nih, mangahelpers nak support OpenManga yg masih dalam design and development phase.

konsep Open Manga sama macam site2 seperti www.netcomics.com yang mane ade beberapa chapter boleh baca free dan sebahagiannya perlu dibayar. Kalau mangaka nak promote manga dia, dia perlu letak 1 atau 2 chapter free untuk view online. Nak subscribe manga yg kita minat perlu beli kredit kat site OpenManga pakai kad kredit atau paypal segala bagai.

Subscriptions will be available in three different forms; on an artist or publisher basis (most likely with custom subscription rates set by the content owners), on a sitewide basis, and on a mobile basis. The subscription models are broken down as follows:

• Users who subscribe to artists will get access to that artist’s series from dedicated high bandwidth servers with original size images, to both chapter and volume downloads, and to multi-platform versions of the chapters such as the Comic Book Reader, the Amazon Kindle, and the iPad. They will also not see any advertisements on any of that artist’s series or profile pages. Users will also be able to access all content from that artist via their mobile devices in high quality without advertisements.
• Users who subscribe to the OpenManga sitewide mobile plan will get access to high quality on demand chapters, scaled for the latest smartphone resolutions without experiencing any advertisements on their mobile device. We might make it possible for users to download these chapters to their cell phones through the OpenManga mobile application(s) to avoid having them experience mobile outages as they are traveling.
• Users who subscribe to the OpenManga sitewide plan will get access to all the features listed above, except that it will be for all artists and publishers in the OpenManga system.

source: http://blog.openmanga.org/

tak tahu la kalau ade site yg nak upload manga2 nih.. begantung kalau ade yg sanggup share dan subscribe sitewide plan which is kita dapat the whole volume tak silap.. lepas tu apa lagi.. upload kat mangastream ke. Yang pasti.. kalau betul mangastream tak kene ban utk upload updated manga sahaja.. rasanya ada can dapat baca latest manga nih.

Neraka Bulan

Reply 3# Kia_picanto

Nak bayar nih payah sikit..

Rasanya kena download seperti dahulu kalalah nampaknya..

RedMage

lepas ni, kita guna IRC balik. {:1_144:}

Kia_picanto

Reply  Kia_picanto

Nak bayar nih payah sikit..

Rasanya kena download seperti dahulu kalalah n ...
Neraka Bulan Post at 23-7-2010 14:18

dulu download kat mane??tak silap... site yg offer downloading nih pon bakal di pantau oleh organisasi jepun dan amerika nih..
dulu instanz.net dah kene tutup sitehosting anime OP dan macam2 license anime.. then bukak balik.. ade mou cuma tak pasti macam mane...

sue_cinta

Nie yang from One Manga nye announcement....

"There is an end to everything, to good things as well."

It pains me to announce that this is the last week of manga reading on One Manga (!!). Manga publishers have recently changed their stance on manga scanlations and made it clear that they no longer approve of it. We have decided to abide by their wishes, and remove all manga content (regardless of licensing status) from the site. The removal of content will happen gradually (so you can at least finish some of the outstanding reading you have), but we expect all content to be gone by early next week (RIP OM July 2010).

So what next? We're not really sure at this point, but we have some ideas we would like to try out. Until then, the One Manga forums will remain active and we encourage all of you to continue using them. OMF has developed into a great community and it would be a shame to see that disappear.

You can also show us some love in this moment of sadness by 'liking' our brand new Facebook page. It would be nice to see just how many of you came to enjoy our 'better than peanut butter and jelly' invention.



Regardless of whether you stay with us or not, on behalf of the One Manga team, I would like to thank you all for your unwavering support over the years. Through the ups and downs you have stuck with us, and that is what kept us going.

As a certain Porky was fond of saying... That's all folks!

Time for me to go lay down and let this all sink in.

- Zabi

nuoxster

tidakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk........aku x rela...huhu

sekngucing

nasib baik aku mengamalkan dasar mendownload kemudian baca semenjak dulu lagi
-jadi bleh baca semual laa yg dah aku donload

B.K

beralih kepada kreko semula nmpknya
atau kreko pun akn tiada lg

Jesse_Mccartney

mangastream tak kene lagi kan ....

terpaksa donload lah pas nih ....  

mijot

patutlah byk manga yg aku nak baca dah xde

ajakto

kenapa dunia kejam pada kita yang meminati manga secara diam2 ni? aku sedih

dauswq

agaknye sbb kita dah disogokkan dengan pembacaan secara percuma...

so biler license company ni bertindak untuk tutup
kita meroyan jadinya

sepatutnya dr dulu lagi dh tutup...
mase semngat membeli komik tgh membara
la ni aku dh tak beli manga Detective Conan..sbb wujudnye website ni

FMKiller

OneManga nak tutop?!!! TIDAAKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

alien3d

bagi naruto dan bleach habis.Lepas nak lesen oh lesen.Tak mau  la final episod kena bayar pulak ?

HangPC2

Kembali kepada zaman IRC....


tapi diorang tak boleh halang ..... upload dari Megaupload / Rapidshare / mediaifre

xiemean

sadis..patutla aku tunggu manga kat OM xkuar...sob3...

ra5101

onemanga rasanya still buka tp suspend manga yg berlesen jer kot. kalau tak kena jengok kat forum2 manga.

megapoke

Jom pakat ramai-ramai buat rusuhan kat sana