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True scanlation seems like a bit of a gray area, since the translations of many manga aren't available in English. I used to buy the manga in Japanese from Kinokuniya and download translated scripts, and read them side-by-side, but that really is inconvenient for anyone who's not trying to learn Japanese.
On the other hand, I can see that scanlations are often still circulated even after the commercial translations are available. Some of this might be because some people prefer the fan translations (there are some commercial translations that I really dislike), but then again, the quality of the fan translations is... shall we say... "highly variable." Some of the circulation is probably due to people being cheap about paying for manga, but some may be due to the lack of official e-manga (at least in Western countries).
All that being said, I think we can "discuss" scanlation here, but as with other pirated content, ought not to post whole works. Posting a single page image for hardware display comparisons seems harmless enough, though. It's just a scanned page, whatever the source.
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