I think the morality part is why the discussions on scanlations are becoming so prevalent in relation to this controversy.
People like Deb and myself are kind of put off by the fact that there's all this fan outrage at the immorality of Nick Simmons knocking off the work of their precious Tite Kubo, while they're off not blinking an eye at the rate in which they swipe his stuff. I kind of doubt the majority of them are buying books or dvd's, and have been told off many times by people who've told me they most definitely don't.
And of course, with things like scanlation aggregator sites making money off of advertisements [think for a minute how many clicks that can add up to, and images don't take up much room on a server nowadasy] and sites that charge subscriptions, there is a large amount of profit being made off of this aspect of fandom by someone.
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Date: 2010-03-01 06:30 pm (UTC)People like Deb and myself are kind of put off by the fact that there's all this fan outrage at the immorality of Nick Simmons knocking off the work of their precious Tite Kubo, while they're off not blinking an eye at the rate in which they swipe his stuff. I kind of doubt the majority of them are buying books or dvd's, and have been told off many times by people who've told me they most definitely don't.
And of course, with things like scanlation aggregator sites making money off of advertisements [think for a minute how many clicks that can add up to, and images don't take up much room on a server nowadasy] and sites that charge subscriptions, there is a large amount of profit being made off of this aspect of fandom by someone.