Recent scanlation events
Well, we all know more or less that Mangacurse and Mangareader.net were doing taboo with releases.
FoOlRulez, being deep in relation with the community, has a pretty straightforward take on what is happening. We’re very careful of the state of the scan-o-sphere, and have a lot of contact with other groups, be it because we shared projects now or in past, or because they use our software. We know at all the times what is happening.
I’m not the kind of guy who’ll write a rant, unless his computer broke.
I’ll just state explicitly what some of our rules are:
- Never involve money in scanlation, unless it’s just enough to support expenses.
- Never advertise ourselves. If people are eager to read, they’ll find.
- Never ruin each other’s fun. Scanlation is fun and contribution.
- Respect the projects of other scanlators, and always find dialogue.
- Contribute, with a thanks, with giving strong-hand, or, by respecting.
- Respect the author’s work, by not ruining the image for your own profit.
- Respect the author’s work, by publishing high quality material, if possible.
- Respect the publishers, and their requests. It’s their manga.
It’s our own decision that we don’t ever put a limit to who hosts our manga, and we won’t start doing this now. Anyone can host them, whenever they want.
Yet, we’ll be offended when someone profits from it, and tries making even more profit off it.
If you’re smart, don’t point out that you’re profiting from our scanlations.
We absolutely don’t like that.
*hides stack of bills from under-the-table advertising and manga leaking schemes*
*sigh*. I guess there really ARE poeple like that. Besides, I was a regular at Onemanga and I can assure that if it made any profit, it was all used for the sake of the site (well, more like they lost, money on it). anyway, this guy is funny, too funny. he goes out and screams “yep, I make profit from your voluntary hard work and I won’t stop, so, wanna be friend ?”. I don’t know what will be decided about Mangareader (frankly, I never liked them and their f*cking watermark so they can go die for all I care), neither do I about mangacurse (except for the MRI alliance ^^), but sincerely, I hope they will either drop dead or start thinking a little more about other people than themselves (and their wallet) because it’s people like that who are the cause of crappy laws like loli-ban and so on, hell, I’m not even sure, they DO like manga…
I don’t like manga and I’m the second most active editor here…
Look forward to scizzer’s bi-annual release in June.
Speaking as the tenth-most active editor here, I like manga, but can’t understand where this guy honestly believes that ALL mangareader sites profit. Woxxy is constantly trying to come up with server fees.
@fadamor
With 8 releases a month we cope with the 35 euro a month.
Imagine a site that has 30 new releases a day. You can make a living on manga readers.
Ya. But those are the guys who usually draw the notice of the publishing houses, right? Once you start making money off of their publications, then it’s worth their time and money to bring their lawyers into play.
But that happened only once or twice, and only for few manga from certain publishers.
serioulsy ? okay, I shut my mouth…
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
low orbit ion cannon
Why not use a high orbit one?
I propose a compromise:
BOTH.
Have you ever thought of releasing only really shitty material(like eye-cancer scan-”quality”, annoying commentaries of the staff regarding whats going on in the manga editet in the releases,and leaving out important words or even sentences (“Sorry, i am probably to dumb to translate this,lol,rofl,xd ;-)”),so that the reader has to buy the official tranlated commercial publication just to make the pain go away ?
That’s the same thing we do every night.
Yeah, Woxxy, but not in the actual scanlation (which is where I think RandomGuy was going with it). That kind of stuff really is annoying and something I’m happy to say Woxxy and Proofreading UberCommander Z-Virus will never let happen in a FoolRulez scanlation. Quality has always been the goal over quantity.
Woxxy was probably being sarcastic.
NOOOOoooo! Woxxy knows NO sarcasm! He cannot tell a lie or exaggerate or… OK, I’m full of “it”. Woxxy is one sarcastic SOB. :D
?????
I iz confuzed?
He said he was the owner of mangareader and flat out said he profited from scan groups ^insert facepalm here
What did anon do to scientology again? can’t we do that?
bonjour je m’appelle jem33 est je voudrais savoir si nous pouvons nous servir de vos realise de seitokai yakuidomo pour les faires en français merci
YES
I mean, OUI.
You mean bien sûr.
Salut Jem33. Vous pouvez utiliser nos traductions si vous voulais nous donner des credits pour les traductions.
Ex:
-nom de votre groupe
-FoolRulez Scanlation
-Traduction japonais -> anglais: necrophantasia (FoolRulez)
comme ca.
I answered for Woxxy. As long as you give us proper credits, you can use.
I answered first. I AM WINNAR U R LOSAR
Someone trolled Mangacurse pretty well: http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9803/hahaohwow2o.jpg
And apparently they didn’t like it. Huh, who would have figured?
I don’t get this whole post, so I can’t even tell which one the troll is. I’m going to assume ITS THE ONE WHO TYPE LIKE THIS.
We’re used to other standards, M.
The one being quoted, the guy who types in CAPS, is the Mangacurse guy.
Take that bastards! I’d shake the hand of that angry reader guy. He’s badass.
Agreed, id really like to thank him. at least someone is making sense
arigato ^^
De rien :).
Oh pooh. Rockmanshii beat me :P
So how was my French, Rockmanshii? Bad? I blame not using it in over 10 years :P
It’s quite good I’d say. I understand easily what you said. You could manage yourself in France if you can speak like that too.
Money? In my scanlation? What are you, a fucking pirate? Oh wai-
Anyways, shame on you mangacurse/mangareader. I thought you were cool for about two seconds.
mugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemugemuge.
I didn’t even thought they were cool for a second.
Oh look, you found a CSS bug.
Can I have a piece of candy as a reward?
It’s funny cuz Mangacurse uses FoOlReader.