Suur manga sõda?

[mufflebum]

See teade käib kõige enam nende kohta, kes loevad mangat peamiselt online manga veebilehtedelt nagu onemanga ja mangafox. Võibolla olete juba tähele pannud aga ma leidsin, et peaks seda siiski mainima.


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 to scan, translate and post manga online 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.”

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Kas me edaspidi mangat internetist lugeda saame, eks me näeme...
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[D2janar]

tõsi on et manga site-id tänapäeval lihtsalt teenivad kasumit mitte ei teeni raha et lehekülge üleval hoida. Kuigi suuremas skaalas näen ma ikkagi manga müükide langust. Nimelt just need leheküljed kust saab tasuta mangat lugeda on populaarsuse ja kuulsuse allikad mangakadele.

[ShinNatsume]

Ning samuti see, et tihti mõned inimesed tahavad 1 vol ära proovida ja siis otsutada, kas osta või mitte.. Ma ise üldiselt ostan mangasid aga nt. Narutot vms. tahaks iga nädal kõige uuemat ch. lugeda..

[animegun1]

Enamus inimesi ei hakka sellepärast enam üldse ostma. Väga paljud inimesed loevad internetis ühe osa ja siis alles ostavad.

[tyger]

Eks ikka meeldib inimestele mõelda, et iga tõmmatud manga võrdub ühe kaotatud ostuga, olenemata sellest, et enamus piraate naguniigi tõmmatud eksemplare ei ostaks.
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[douji]

Esialgu käib jutt ametlike tõlgete skännidest, nagu ma aru saan? See pole nii hull.

Manga müüginumbrite põhjus-tagajärg seos ei ole kindlasti nii üks-ühene kui neile arvata meeldiks, USAs on anime- ja mangabuumi lainehari lihtsalt üldisemalt möödas.
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[princess]

Mulle endale meeldib ka vahel mõne mangaga natukene tutvust teha netist lugedes ja suureks plussiks on just see et netis on tõlkega uus chapter kiiresti olemas samas kui tahaksid originaali osta peaksid vähemalt aasta ootama enne kui see välja tuleb inglise keeles. Kuid kui mingi manga ikka kohe väga meeldib siis loen netist uued chapterid ikka läbi aga hiljem kui on ilmunud tõlkes müügile ja raha on ostan ka originaali omale. Aga ostan siiski väheseid samas loen ka ainult mõnda kindlat mangat

[tyger]

See asi on üllatavalt kaugele läinud ja nii mõnigi scanlationite leht on sunnitud oma uksed sulgema (Mangatoshokan, Onemanga). Nüüd oleks tore ja mugav kui ka legaalsed allikad oma tegevusala laiendaks ning avataks mõni sarnane, ainult tasuline leht.
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[animegun1]

Huvitav mis Mangafox'ist saab. Nemad veel küll sulgemisest midagi ei räägi.

[Bushidon]

[cenorig]

[acousmatique]

[tyger]

[Hypno]

Mina isiklikult ehk eelistaks sellist featuret, et kõigepealt loed iganädalasi chaptereid (igaühe eest maksad mingi summa nt) ja kui volüümi "kokku saad" saadetakse sulle raamat koju kätte. Muuseas võiks sarnane asi olla ka nt. iTunesis. Oleksin suurklient kindlalt.
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[Ewu.]

mmm... tunnistan, et loen koguaeg online mangat hetkel mangafoxist ja mangareader'ist , ja ma oleks ikka väga kurb, kui ma seda enam teha ei saaks, ja kui nad teeks tasulised leheküljed, no okey, aga siis võiks olla nad mõistliku hinnaga
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