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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Within the unauthorised digital comics community, they are calling it "theft of scans", and aren't too happy about it. The irony of that should amuse a few of the people here.
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I see the same thing from fansubbing groups, where individuals or "teams" work to provide subtitles for foreign films/TV series-- they release the subs (either soft or hard) for the series-- which in itself is a form of copyright violation-- then become indignant when someone else takes "their hard work" and redistributes it differently, or for profit. (They have been especially indignant about a site called
Crunchyroll.) They fail to see the irony, and they fail to realize one simple fact-- once something has been made available on the internet-- it is available on the internet.
As for comics, after getting my Sony Reader, I've downloaded a backlog of thousands of issues of comics from titles I read in my teens (yes, I actually read comics on a 5-inch Eink display) but I've never heard of the OP's website before. Mine came from Usenet, and torrents, and Emule, and Avax. Probably plenty available via IRC. They have plugged a trickle, and act like they have held back a flood.