Korean mangakas or webtoonists are much more active on internet than japanese or chinese ones. That's why only korean webtoons that are being hidden on different sites. There are some webtoon that got deleted from this site because the webtoonist found them here. Putting their works on this site is harmful for translation teams. Why are you so sure to think they wont sue tranlation teams if they found out their own works got translated and distributed illegally?
lol no. the Koreans are at another level. so yes the translators can get into jail because of something "petty" like this.
EXR scans mainly translate japanese & chinese stuff and they're not as strict thats why they are able to post it publicly
I've said this before on another thread, but my dad actually worked in the book industry for a while as an intern because he is a copyright lawyer (or something like that, not sure if theres a more specific term for it but I can absolutely look it up if someone is curious and would like to hire one for such a case) 1. No way Korean mangakas make enough to prosecute something like this. 2. I am absolutely not doubting that we are harming the authors when we do this, I'm talking about the triggered translators. 3. An international case like would take YEAAAARRRSSS to deal with and would likely end with a slap on the wrist such as a 1000 dollar fine. 4. Absolutely NO WAY they would track you down unless you were stupid enough to put your full name, number, adress, ect online. And if you wanna make it even more safe, just use a VPN while on those sites. It would legit take an expert hacker to figure out who you are with a VPN and theres no way they could legally obtain that information. I cant make you trust me, but if my word means anything at all, I PROMISE yall that there is no way that group would see backlash from this. Especially if they just delete the translation site and start somewhere else. Easy peasy and you dont have to put up with scathing emails from angry authors.
1. The person who leaked it didn't even bother leaving the credits so all their hard work was just stolen without any proper gratitude. This happened to the translation team months before when some asshole posted their hard work on mangago.
2. The reason why they wanted it to stay on discord is that the original authors of the manhwa won't know that their work is being illegally translated. The invite is refreshed every day (before the leak) so anyone of the members could let their friends in. All the translators ask is that they keep it in discord. That's all.
3. Why is it so hard for people to understand that they're not keeping this a secret because their stingy af but because they WANT to keep translating? They'll be forced to stop and we won't have any more to read. I've got cash to spare so I can actually read the official translations but there are a bunch of kids online that don't have enough money to read this.
I've seen a few scanlation teams that had to drop projects because they've been spotted by the author or the company in charge of the english translation release (*cough* i'm looking at the people in charge of golden sparkle, even stalked the scan team's tumblr) so it's not impossible for it to happen.
I get that it was pretty uncool to not give credit, but I mean... it's still stolen work, it's still illegal. I mean, they steal from the mangaka by translating (dont get me wrong i understand, i was a very poor kid once) but then get mad when someone steals from them? Wheres the logic there?
Also you're saying that they would let anyone in? Or just select people? That's where I'm getting stingy and entitled from. I also addressed the fact that they wont need to stop because of this. They can either restart somewhere else, or deal with threatening badly translated emails from an author... that they are STEALING from!
I quite frankly, dont think I'll ever be able to understand how someone can do something wrong to the author with good intentions, and then have a reader do something wrong to them with good intentions, and have the audacity to get mad?
They USED to let anyone in because they put in an invite link members could send out to other people but because this shit happened, it's closed.
So don't call them names when you don't even know what this team's gone through over the past year, mate.
also you do realize that if this team drops this manhwa, we're gonna have to wait several long months before tappytoons catches up and that's only if someone's kind enough to pay for the official translation and post it over here
Arent the scan team nice enough to do it for us for FREE all they ask for is to keep it on discord it's a different story between author => scan team and scan team => website from translating and cleaning The scans team are doing all of the hard work for all of us to enjoy and they genuinely have good intentions to share the author's work is in a different language and it takes forever for tappy toon to upload imagine seeing your hardwork being stolen not being credit and all of that can you stand that? I guess a person like u won't understand till it falls on you. Mangago intentions aren't good intention at least the scans team will say "please support the original author if you can."
God bless you ;o; you're a hero
You're so hard headed
Man it seems like you're not understanding, you bring up some good points but yes the scan team does it for free, for the people they decide they want to read it. Sucks for the rest of us that dont get allowed in. So not only are we not allowed in their exclusive club, but then they ask for help to pay. So what happens if I donate, and dont get allowed back in? Sucks to be me i guess? Also how is it different? Explain to me how it's different from the scan team stealing from the author and the reader stealing from the scan team? Because the reason you gave was "The scans team are doing all of the hard work for all of us to enjoy and they genuinely have good intentions to share the author's work is in a different language and it takes forever for tappy toon to upload imagine seeing your hardwork being stolen not being credit and all of that can you stand that?" Which is EXACTLY WHAT THEYRE DOING TO THE AUTHOR. Imagine the authors hard work being stolen, imagine the author working hard for all of us to enjoy, imagine the authors good intentions to spread their work abroad so that international people can read it only to get STOLEN. How on earth is that hard to understand? Also, whoever uploaded it here, also had good intentions. They saw the many people complaining about not being accepted into the translation group, not being able to read the books, and decided to share it here. Just like the scan people saw many people unable to read the books due to the language barrier. Yall need to wake up. Both parties stole, both parties hurt someone. One deed isnt worse than the other just because you're upset and decided it should be that way.
Publicly sharing the Translators work can cause two issues: first, it can cause some legal issues as there is finally a representative for them to sue(really only happens to big companies like lezhinw, but better not to take the risk yknow?)
And a second being that their websites being taken down.
I totally agree with what you said! (Though they could never prosecute) but I just find it hilarious that the translation team is somehow seen to be morally in the right compared to the reader who did the exact same thing as if they couldnt face the same repercussions for spreading it. It would be sad if they have to take down their translation page and they truly have my sympathy for that
Well, the uploader just ruined plenty of people’s day, sooo eh, I get why
That's a fair point. I dont tend to factor in people's emotions when I rip into people, just if its logical or not. I really am sorry to everyone on this thread that we wont be able to read this anymore until someone else picks it up, I get that it sucks. Let's be friends!!
Eh, you’re a very logical person, you look from several perspectives, I like that about you. Most of the time I’m actually very narrow minded (づ￣ ³￣)づ
1. Awesome we have chapters, but someone was hurt in the process?
2. Did the translators not want their shit shared anywhere or just shared slowly?
3. If they didnt want their stuff shared no matter what and wanted it to be some dirty little secret? I really dont understand why translations teams get like this. Follow EXR scans lead and just share christ almighty. The powers that be are not gonna throw you into jail for something petty like this, grow some balls.