MangaDex site gets hit with massive DMCA takedown, thousands of series removed.

[kingofdragons]

I heard that AI was used to target and send this takedown, welcome to the future.

There goes my to-read list

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

Jesus

 

[Yousef]

DANG

 

[fake-kun]

Crap.

 

[Strategist's iconStrategist]

I sometimes wonder about these DMCA takedowns. Is there any way to verify if these are legitimate and not random trolls with an agenda?

 

[UnDubious]

I really need to get back to reading manga before the scanlantions I'm interested in disappear. I'm not really looking for anything actually published in English typically, so hopefully it survives longer.

 

[ShadowsofCreation]

This really bums me out. Had a bunch of on-going series that I needed to check for updates on.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

*Checks if any manga I care about is on the list*

Fuck.

They got my Cat Cat.

Guess its back to reading the webnovels.


Saw some of my reading list get hit, but that was the only big casualty for me.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

I sometimes wonder about these DMCA takedowns. Is there any way to verify if these are legitimate and not random trolls with an agenda?

It’d be pretty difficult to determine unless the companies came out about it in some way (like a C&D or lawsuit). But with how a lot of companies have done stuff like this in the past, I’m willing to believe it’s real

In any case it’s saddening. At least a lot of the webtoons and scans remain but all imma say is make sure to add manga to your MAL to remember what you’re going for

 

[popckorn]

Is it really that difficult to put the sites behind a TOR Hidden Service?
Speeds must be the bottleneck there...

 

[kingofdragons]

we need something like libgen for manga and light novels.

 

[Antilocal123]

It’s so over fellow chuds…

 

[Bonkers225]

As a Korean, and Kakao being a Korean company, my apologies, and fuck Kakao. And Kakaotalk while I'm at it.

 

[kingofdragons]

Yeah, I've found Korean companies are very anal about copyright and like having full control, even more so than Japan which is already pretty tough about it.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Is it really that difficult to put the sites behind a TOR Hidden Service?
Speeds must be the bottleneck there...

Most people probably don’t know how to use a TOR tbf. A lot will hear the name, think of the deep/dark web, get freaked out and that’s that

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

who cares really? there thousands of other websites doing the same thing as Mangadex

 

[kingofdragons]

who cares really? there thousands of other websites doing the same thing as Mangadex

not as many as you would think, Mangadex had a huge and well organized catalogue, good UI too. Don't forget many other manga sites were taken down over the years, there's fewer every year, and not many that want to take risks hosting stuff.
It would be like if the repo here finally goes down, sure you might find things in other places, but it would still be a substantial loss, just like this place is one of the few remaining places of the many roms and hacking sites that have been taken down over the last several years.

 

[ThePeon]

Well it´s honestly a matter of time before Mangafox, Mangaplaza, also gets hit with DMCA.
Sadly my favorite site for anime "aniwave" Was shut down for a while "thankfully aniwave is up again.

And before you complain about piracy it´s not my fault the west world decided that Crunchroll will have the majority of the monopoly while letting Netflix and some others have a small pirce of the cake.

Back in the 90s we had several companies that sold anime.
DIC Entertainment
Fubimation
Saban entertainment
Viz Bideo
ADV films
Pionner LDC
U.S. Manga Corps
Manga VIDEO


Today we are limited to
Netflix
Amazon maybe not sure never use their shit
Crunchyroll which is the main
or you have can in some cases by from the studio it self but then it´s probably not in Japense.

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who cares really? there thousands of other websites doing the same thing as Mangadex

Well if you care about quality sites and sites that don't give you 100s of pop ups or even infect you. Yes you should care. Also also you want to be sure you can use 1 sites istead of having to read manga on 10 diffrent sites becuse the one you used does not have the one you wanted to read.

But maybe your that kind of person that visits Russians sketchy sites Daily because you are to lazy to care. Allot of people care about quallity and good sites.

 

[kingofdragons]

I'm so glad Nyaa is still going strong. Seems Torrents will outlive all those that claimed would be its downfall.

 

[ThePeon]

I'm so glad Nyaa is still going strong. Seems Torrents will outlive all those that claimed would be its downfall.

Well seeing as some other big sites died it´s a no wonder people would think it would join the sea of dead. Honestly it´s a wonder it still exist. Seeing how hard Japan has been with DMCA claims has become.

 

[kingofdragons]

Well seeing as some other big sites died it´s a no wonder people would think it would join the sea of dead. Honestly it´s a wonder it still exist. Seeing how hard Japan has been with DMCA claims has become.

well that's the beauty of torrents, its not really possible to take them down besides some of the search sites. Event then, torrent devs over the years have taken steps to make sure the technology is as decentralized and distributed as possible. There's even decentralized torrent search.

 

[Super Funky Piece]

at least one manga i'm reading that got hit has already moved to an image hosting site and then fed through another that formats into a proper manga reader. may be time for more stuff to keep on the downlow like that. just as long as the links arent all kept behind a goddamn discord server.

it's really just such a discouragement when most manga fan translations still go by the honour system of halting when a series is licenced for official localization. hell i had started reading Medalist on Mangadex and then had to look elsewhere for that exact reason

 

[valosagutas]

Damn. I hope nothing will prevent me from reading The Eminence in Shadow for free as it's the only manga I care to read for years and I rather enjoy reading it over and over again for years before I read its new issues after I intentionally don't read it for months. I don't usually read manga because I prefer animes instead. I started it way before its anime existed but its anime turned out to be a whole world worth of a garbage disposal area on fire that's actually a different fictional story in its own context that was developed by people who have no idea how the manga actually is lol.

 

[rugal]

sad to see this happen but it was just a matter of time it was going to happen sooner or later

the problem with open sites is that the company and industri see them as a threat.
if mangadex hade been private site where only members could read manga and hard to get invited to the site. i think this would not have happen
since most of the time the corporations and industri do not attack private site that hard and they do not see the private sites as big threat

 

[Clippy]

I wonder what the endgame is here. It's not like the people who were reading online are suddenly going to go out in droves and buy manga now. If anything, the DMCA claims took down a big advertisement arm that those corpos didn't have to pay jack for. I mean, it's their prerogative and all that but why bother? To piss people off? Now that's a great marketing strategy.