Literal grifters.
A donation button I wouldn't mind, but literal paywall? EW.
It's not normal but it's become a more frequent thing I believe.
Monkey see, monkey do. So obviously people will think this'll be a money making opportunity.
Rule of thumb tho: Don't pay money for something illegally done that you cannot even be sure has good quality.
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They use the money to pay their translators and buy the raws, the people working on the manhwas aren't doing it out of love but as a job so the quality varies a lot
and yes it's illegal to take someone's work and charge money to translate it, then host the translated work on your own website
Normal scan teams are already doing something illegal but...... reply
Pls tell me they're using the proceeds to buy the chapters and not just pocketing lol
I mean I get a little donation for your time and effort but if these ppl are expecting to get paid full time to translate illegally then that's 1 reply
Legally it's not okay because they make off money from another peoples work. So instead of supporting translation teams, it's better to support the original creator of the story you're reading (read it on official apps like webtoon, lezin, tapas) . But ofc sometimes there's not even a official English translation. ( ̄∇ ̄") reply