Reminds me of how the gaming industry is slowly learning that piracy cannot be stopped, it can only be "beaten" by providing a better service than the pirates. Any attempts to stop them will always fail and backfire, like DRM services which mostly affect actual customers in a negative way... In the case of mangas the "word of mouth" would stop (they would have no way to find the mangas in the first place), some of the readers might turn out to be potential customers, those who could buy the manga to support the artist/magazine. You are not getting a hold of them by shutting down sites, you are only removing the little signs of your own existence that could bring in those among us that are potential customers... (although, to be honest, they are a minority of the readers who use these sites).
Turned into a bit of a rant there, I don't know the specific situation that they are in and what exactly they are trying to accomplish (still, as mentioned before, any attempt to fight piracy directly is futile). Just wanted to chime in from a general marketing POV.
Anyways, be there danger or not, I keep planning on downloading mangas that I like from this site...
Looks at own lists
Its... gonna take me a while...
last edited at Aug 1, 2014 5:35AM
