There's an article at Publisher's Weekly where it appears thatt Japanese and US publishers are set to fight against scanlations.
While I understand their stance as they're fully justified and it's within their legal rights, I can't help but hope it doesn't affect the sites I frequent. Manga is
rarely sold in my country so it's almost impossible to buy titles that I'm interested in.
That being said I would like to think that the scanlation community has increased people's awareness of manga in a manner that the industry/ publishers may not have been able to do themselves. I know that's how I became aware of the industry.
I guess we'll have to wait and see the outcome of this action. I guess it's really more about control than anything else. I don't know how effective their actions will be though. One only has to look at the movie and music industry who has a lot more power and financial weight than the publishing industry.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...anlations.html