It most certainly is illegal that they’re trying to make money off of lezhin screenshots though. Literally 5 thousand dollars. They set up a mf go fund me
So beyond pathetic... Slimy asshole.
You're right about how waiting for few days or even years can't change the fact that we're pirating the work of many hard working authors, but even pirates have rules to follow. We wait for few days so author can earn their money from their art, it's how we show our appreciation and respect for their work. Yes, we're all pirates in here "why would we do that?", wtf is the problem with that? Just because we're reading from illegal sites doesn't mean we're not capable of repecting the authors. We're not innocent here but we also have rules, if we can't follow that then we're just plain heartless criminals. Besides, these guys aren't just updating early, they're also scamming people for money, and idk how naive some of the people to actually donate on that shit that it reached $450 smdh. It's not hypocrisy, we are here for illegal updates and therefore we have to follow the unspoken rules of these world.
I understand the point in leaving some time between the official release and the mangago update, but all of you telling the uploaders to better drop it cause "it is illegal" are such hypocrites. It is illegal yes, but it won't stop being illegal after two days, a week or a month. No matter when it is uploaded it will be illegal so cut the crap, if it feels wrong to you reading it few hours after the release it should feel as wrong to read it a few days after or a fucking year after.