Don't forget that new project they announced on mangahelpers.

I'll freak out like when mangaupdates gets targeted and scanlator sites directly involved.
Needless to say, i'm already kinda worried.

>>36154040
This; if I were in their situation, I'd remove the direct links to downloads.

Also, does anyone know if #lurk's in that list? I wouldn't mind too much if they went underground and did everything via IRC, but it'd be a sad loss if they disappeared entirely.

I wonder why /a/ isn't talking much about this, doesn't almost everyone read manga here?
I know this came out yesterday but still..

they are not going to disappear completely - it is the internet FFS - it just means the newfags won't be able to find the manga.....too bad newfags

>>36154144
Lurk is most likely in that, common sense dictates so.

MangaUpdates:
"Due to recent events, I've decided to remove unlicensed release links. As much as this will disappoint some of you, my foremost goal is to keep this website online.

We have never hosted manga, but I would prefer to keep this site as far from the gray area as possible. It has always been my ambition to maintain an information site and not one specific to releases.

Thank you,

Manick"

>>36154144
>>36154040

Mangaupdates & #lurk would be hard looses, but still: Just removing some direct links and let the users google for the (still emntioned) names could work. And 'lurk or NULL can still only function via IRC and give a site as a placeholder to find that channel.

>>36154239
I thought this had been in the news for a while now.

>>36154266
>using the word newfag
As if that wasn't ironic enough,
>FFS
>....
Clearly you know where the shift and punctuation keys are, now try learning when it's appropriate to actually use them.

We still have NArutofan, though

>>36154239
There have been like 30 threads already. Not many people care because it wasn't that great of a site in the first place. It's nice for keeping in contact with renegade translators/scanlators, but this change doesn't affect that at all. There are still a heap of alternatives for anyone who really cares anyways.

Fuck, I need to learn how to IRC.

To be honest though I've been reading manga and watching anime for long enough now that I can see the bigger picture, if I couldn't get it for free anymore, if I couldn't get on 4chan I'd just move on to something else. Probably go back to playing vidya all day.

>>36154529
Go back to groping small boys on the bus, Nats.

been "in the game" for upwards of 20 years. we're still in a golden age

>>36154593
( ≖◡≖)

Companies are finally realizing manga is a bigger business then anime DVD's.

anime is superior anyways

>>36154575
It can be a bit intimidating at first (holy shit I have to write a line of text instead of just clicking a button?), but IRC really is piss easy to use and often a great resource - a lot of groups regularly have releases on bots before the torrents are up, and in the case of some (THORA) this can be by months.

There are some good channels for chatting floating around on rizon, too - /g/ has about five of varying quality, /m/, /v/ and /jp/ all have pretty nice ones and /a/ has a few decent ones dotted around the place. #/a/ itself has been shit whenever I've been there, however.

It's been so long since the last time i used irc tho, i don't quite remember how to use it.
I think it was to get some katekin releases, which later were uploaded to some online reader site, heh.

>>36154825

Is there a guide for IRC /a/? This would be a good image to post later on.

Scanlator here, bookmark our goddamn sites already

>>36154889

Nice idea, could prove useful. Anyway, I just use ChatZilla for NULL, KEFI and #lurk.

>>36154954

I already save 1 or 2 scanlator sites for every mango I read. But it's just too much ;_;

I guess we'll only lose some comfort on the web, though.

>>36154954
B-but i follow so many goddamn mangas, even with feedemon i would go insane.

>>36154954
I've got Amano Centric Scans and Musashi Quality there.

If you're not one of those you don't know SHIT about anime.

>>36153966
I for one is glad this hopefully kills the online viewer faggotry. It will become impossible to download shojo manga (well some is actually good) because it will be "YOU MUST POST AT LEAST 3000 NON SPAM TOO SEE OUR RELEASES". Some scanlator groups that provides mediafire, megaupload etc links will be sued to make an example of. No more online hostan and everyone goes back to irc for downloading manga. My downloading will probably take twice as long time in the future than it does today. However it's just like going back before the dawn of rapidshare.

>>36154954
Can still find your irc channels and sites though mangaupdates. Just no more hotlinking.

/a/, I have a dream.

A dream where all tripfags, /a/nons, virgins, moefags, DEEPfags and Shounenfags unite to create a wonderful /a/ IRC channel.

A channel where you good mango and animu are on a nice, clean botlist. A channel where anons can talk freely about their hobby without suffering newfaggotry, a channel where we can live again.

I have a dream, /a/.

>>36155354
It'll never happen.

>>36155430

I know, but sometimes...sometimes when I go to sleep...I see this vision before my eyes.


;_;

>>36155459
I fucking know how you feel bro ;_;

>>36155211
Oh mang, don't remind me.

>>36155354
We already have one, but I'm not telling you what it is.

>>36155485

If I finish university I will donate A LOT of money to certain scan groups and hope they will hop onto my dream ;_;

>>36155522

Come on, we all shere the same dream as >>36155354

So long as fans who can translate, and scanners/cameras, exist, online manga won't go anywhere.

I will still get my loli, right?
Kodomo no Jikan?

I'm feeling the loss of mangatraders hard.

So far I've been using mangaupdates and cheking the scanlator's websites for releases, but it's hardly adequate.

If I'm trying to find a manga that was scanalted a while ago the scanlation website will often no longer exist, other times they only porivde crappy torrents to download their manga.


I really relied on mangatraders.

>>36155687

Just went to their IRC today, they won't say when it will be back up again and why it is down but there is some optimism.

>>36155687
Me too, I never realized how dependent I was of them.

But there are plenty of alternatives.

>>36155625
While this is true, if finding manga turns too annoying because scanlators site get constantly shot down, and sites like mangaupdates where one gets most of the relevant info were to be closed down, it would certainly hinder people's manga reading.
It's a hobbie, not work, if enjoying your hobbie gets too hard people might just stop doing it.
In my case i would go great lenghts to get my fix, but still, there's no way i'm happy about this whole ordeal.

>>36155797

But I doubt there's another site as big and with that much titles as mangatraders.

>>36155733
Is this true?, i assumed mtraders wasn't ever comic back because how the time things happened coincided so much.

>>36155878

http://gotlurk.net/

Learn it, use it, love it

>>36155633
The commission sites might be in danger if they scan manga belonging to these companies. If they only scanlate pure hentai I doubt they will be in trouble. But saha could go out of business because of KnJ.

Do western companies really think people will pay for their releases if they are months or years behind japanese releases and their quality suck?

>>36155903

#tradersnetwork@irc.irchighway.net

Some one asked if he can still donate money and they said he could when "the site is back again".

>>36153998
Yeah what the hell was that openmanga faggotry about. It was tl;dr and then I removed the bookmark to mangahelpers. I figured it was some kind of "devianart create our own manga abomination".

I run a website that serves links to filehosts with random users uploading whole series.
I don't plan on stopping, ever.

>>36155929

To be fair, updates for certain series are quite uncommon there.
Take RAVE Master for example: While MT had no scans for it, lurk did indeed provide 90% of the scans, but newer scans for the latest chapters couldn't be found anywhere on it. had to search several hours to findthe latest chapters.

Users should be able to post new scans in an uplaod queue.

shitty online reading sites gone

fuck yes nothing value was lost

>>36156048
You know, I'd have that happy mentality if it wasn't for sites that aren't just for online reading getting the boot.
Sadly that isn't the case.

>>36156150
High profile sites located in USA and administrated by people from USA are going to be in deep shit. I'm guessing mangafox will have to close business (we can always hope) or move to Russia. Scanlation groups with a big fancy site based in USA with their own online viewers will also be fucked. Well all online viewer sites will probably go except crazy's.

>>36156304
Those scanlators can just drop the online reader server and only host their releases, can't they?.
Quite a bit of the scanlator sites which i read releases from do what you say, imangascans comes to mind.

Wouldn't it be funny if manga company people lurk ITT to find out where they could strike.

>>36156358
I thought of imangascans too. But yeah the onlineviewer is going to have to go. Probably links from the website too.

Oh man mangahelpers is about to do exactly as the leaked plan from last year. Fuck your subscription based scheme you Tazmo twin brother.

>>36156418
>implying they have enough time to lurk on /a/.

The japanese are fucking idiots. If I was making something and selling it only to my native market and someone decided to take it and make it available in their own language I'd fucking let it be. They neglected the world market and now they're cracking down on it WHILE STILL PROVIDING NOTHING to non-japanese speakers, it's bullshit.

>>36156460

Yeah, that was pretty fucked up.

>>36155929
First try, first disappointment.
Great.

>>36156500

Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy.

I think this is is a bluff by them manga industry.

Are there even 30 large websites like they said?The number of large sites is probably half that.Methinks they pulled a random number.

>>36156553
I tried to find all the chapters that had been translated from Natsume Yuujichou, it lacked the last update of 2 chapters and an extra, done in march.

>>36156610
See:
>>36156026

I wonder how the mentality of " manga pirated, manga not sold " works.
Lots of stuff that gets bought is thanks to people come to like some tittle by reading free scanlations, so in the end, if you take that away from the buyer, he won't spend a penny. So in the end this just manga publishers shitting on themselves.

Only subhumans read manga anyways.
HURR DURR, it sure is fun waiting anything from 2 weeks to 2 months for a measly new 15 pages that are worth about 5 minutes of anime screen time. Also, 80% of projects are never finished, and the rest consist of shonen shit and occasional fanservice story.

I'm going to be living in Japan so lulz @ all of you.

>mangahelpers as good as dead

Explain further

And mangatraders is only having servers problems, which has been a problem for them since the beginning of time

>>36156670
You can't read jap. The joke is all on you.

>Explain further

Go to mangahelpers and look at the front page you fucking idiot.

>>36156717
According to the post on ANN, and i think that on the news post on Mangahelpers itself, the site is announced to be going down.
Also, every release ever is gone from the site already.

>>36156717
>>36156717
http://foolrulez.org/blog/2009/09/mangahelpers-viz-sell-scanlation-scans-hayate-media/

Online manga sites are convenient because I can just browse them until I find something interesting, but that's pretty much it. For the series I already keep track of, I use mangaupdates.

>>36156659
Wow... you're such a tool.
I would make so many analogies to make you feel stupid, but maybe you wouln't understand those either.
No wait, am i being trolled?

>>36156805
I believe mangahelpers is actually responsible for this entire ordeal. If MT etc shuts down that only leaves MH that can provide online viewing. You see how much retards donate to MT so it isn't strange if the content providers believe they can make big bucks here. I mean you just don't type up that post at MH in less than one day. They knew this was coming.

>>36156919

Don't worry about it. There's just going to do to the manga community what crunchyroll did to the anime community, absolutely nothing.

[HorribleScans] anyone?

>>36156919

Does not work that way because of licensing and royalties issues.

The centralized site with a subscription model does cannot work.

Somebody mentioned commissioned translators.

they are not going after them, right?

>>36157039
http://forums.bleachexile.com/showthread.php?p=2197562
Looks like they will hire translators to do teh translations quickly like crunchyroll.

>>36156919
Not the poster you replied to.
After readint that post on foolrulez, i think my view on things just changed quite a bit.

>>36156987
>[HorribleScans] anyone?
Heh, i can already picture it.
Seeing half of the MangaUpdates page filled with "HorribleScans" as the scanlator group would be golden.

>>36157060

Doubt it, I can hire a translator to translate something and as long its not published they cannot do a damn thing about it.

Its only publishing that is a problem but do you really think they would go after the sites with commissions? those work almost exclusive on H series that could never be released in the western market and its just better to ignore then or its going to make headlines and they get another Rapelay on their hands and EVERYONE loses.

>>36156659
The best manga are leagues ahead of the best anime, and there are far more excellent manga than anime.

You are a faggot.

>>36157060
They'll be working for MH now filling the pockets of the shadow leaders behind MH. Well probably not saha and other porn exclusive commissioners.

>>36154889

I've been trying to set up an IRC for different reasons and reading up on the stuff, usually there's easy to use guides all over the place