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Originally Posted by Logseman
If you go to OneManga ( http://onemanga.com) you'll find a brief post saying that manga publishers have changed their stance towards scanslations, forcing OneManga to close in one week or so.
Is this the end of scanslations? One could safely bet that MangaFox, MangaHut and the like will go behind. Or will scanslations go into the darknet? |
Wooooh. Stop right there. End of scanlations?
I think you get the wrong idea, because the manga is scanlated by a scanlate group.
That group has someone in Japan, who buys the manga and scans it. Then there's a translator, a cleaner (to get rid of the ugly things, and remove the text) and a QC'er (Quality Ckecker). In some quality based groups, they redraw parts of the manga, and release it after hours or days of editing. They release it on their website, and sometimes DCC bots. Then onemanga grabbed it from them, and put it on their website. Scanlations were there before those site's.
Site's like onemanga just collect them, and give it to the people who aren't that deep in the scene of it. For the normal people to say it in a weird way
Off course, onemanga had a few translations of it's own, but it didn't started that way. It's just a collection site.
Onemanga didn't start the scanlations, and Onemanga will not end it.
Scanlations were always there, even without you knowing it. Just like fansubbing, it even exsisted BEFORE the internets. (Well, they distributed it on VHS'ses back those days. xD)