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

[fake-kun]

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.

That's assuming they actually have the end goal here beyond, "How DARE that pirating scum touch OUR property! They deserve to PERISH!!!"

 

[Weebicon]

Mangadex is how I got into reading and buying physical manga books in the first place so it's sad that it's been targeted like this out of nowhere...

 

[Muklas]

I was there when Onemanga got burned down. I was there when Batoto got burned down. Now I'm also here to watch Mangadex burn. What I'm trying to say is to never get too cozy, because all of these sites live on borrowed time and you should probably back up the things you plan on reading while also keeping a separate notepad file with your reading list in it, because you never know when you'll wake up to a bonfire.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I was once a member of a virtual library site that equated DMCAs to burning books.

I thought they were awfully exaggerated.

But now I see it with perfect clarity.

 

[Duke_11037]

That's one of the main sites I get yuri from, rip at least I still got dynasty reader

 

[NobodyHere]

Reminds me of when kissanime got nuked.

I didn’t realize this happened, but makes sense. I’ve only recently started using mangadex, quick noticed how a lot of ‘main stream’ popular series were listed yet lacked any English chapters.

Luckily looks like the more obscure series are safe (for now )

 

[Yousef]

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

I honestly just download mine straight from archive.org, usually you’ll find .cbz files which is much higher quality but requires a separate reader. Its how I read the umineko manga.

 

[NobodyHere]

I was once a member of a virtual library site that equated DMCAs to burning books.

I thought they were awfully exaggerated.

But now I see it with perfect clarity.

Prime example; there was an incident where a lost episode of an Arthur spin off that was banned for having lesbians and was found of kiss cartoons.

 

[UnDubious]

When I got into manga again around 2011 or 2012 I bought a bunch of them (had disposable income then), but it's so absurdly expensive if you want to just read a full series. I think one volume was like 12-15$ at the time, for something that takes about an hour to read (taking your time). A mid-size series might have 15, that's 225$ just to get through one story. Completely absurd. Manga is much cheaper in Japan AFAIK, but here it's just unreasonable. There are series I like that have about 35 volumes, you're talking over 500$ if you buy them all just to read them... and in the end it's about as long as just one RPG, at best.

 

[Sfjeov]

Reminds me of when kissanime got nuked.

I didn’t realize this happened, but makes sense. I’ve only recently started using mangadex, quick noticed how a lot of ‘main stream’ popular series were listed yet lacked any English chapters.

Luckily looks like the more obscure series are safe (for now )

Reminds me when 9anime got taken down. Thankfully, I don't use mangadex anymore as I use some other site.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

As really shitty as this whole situation is (Especially as someone who does occasionally use MD) I hope this is a wake-up call for scanlation groups to stop relying on one site to host all their stuff. Seen a few groups across social media today having full on breakdowns as MD was not only the one and only site they were posting their scans but also they were using it as their own archive essentially, rather than making their own websites as a backup. So potentially the series they were working on are now lost and they've got no backups of them (unless someone else downloaded them and can post them elsewhere). As convenient as MD, and other sites like it are, you always need to remember they can literally disappear overnight, especially now when companies are more prone to issuing copyright strikes than every before. This is why torrents will always be the way.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

I was there when Onemanga got burned down. I was there when Batoto got burned down. Now I'm also here to watch Mangadex burn. What I'm trying to say is to never get too cozy, because all of these sites live on borrowed time and you should probably back up the things you plan on reading while also keeping a separate notepad file with your reading list in it, because you never know when you'll wake up to a bonfire.

Hmm? I still use batoto as a source

 

[kingofdragons]

I honestly just download mine straight from archive.org, usually you’ll find .cbz files which is much higher quality but requires a separate reader. Its how I read the umineko manga.

please don't use archive org as a file storage server guys, for one thing it makes it easier for copyright trolls and Hollywood to build a case against it when they can easily find pirate materials right there, the site is supposed to provide an important service and saves tons of our world culture from destruction. They already operate by barely straddling the current laws, and have had terrible lawsuits they've lost and don't need more of them.
Second, because they need to operate legally, they delete and comply with DMCA, so don't use them to store super rare and niche materials as the only repository on the internet.

anyway, like I've already said, I know most people these days just don't care and have gotten so used to things like streaming or online only sites for everything, but this is the danger of such a system. Its why I've always told people to torrent things, it helps everybody else by sharing it with the world, and you actually usually get the much better higher quality files unlike downscaled and compressed media online. Torrents these days are super easy too, even a kid could do it.
Like I still have torrents that I've been seeding for the past 15-20 years now, most from sites that don't even exist anymore like the original demonoid.

 

[Yousef]

please don't use archive org as a file storage server guys,

I… don’t use it to “store” stuff though. I said I downloaded stuff from it. Phrasing matters I suppose.

 

[kingofdragons]

I… don’t use it to “store” stuff though. I said I downloaded stuff from it. Phrasing matters I suppose.

No, I realize that. I too download shit from there, I was speaking more for the people who just upload files there and call it a day. ''Oh this super rare dos game that I dumped from the original floppy, here you go i uploaded it to Archive org, enjoy guys im sure it will be there next year and wont get a dmca or deleted from the trolls who bought the copyright to the name years ago"

 

[Inkingsama]

arakure ojousama got hit... just end my life now...

 

[valosagutas]

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.

You are so right. Without illegal websites I would have no idea my favourite mangas existed so I would wanna buy them but my main issue is despite I know where to buy a nuclear bomb I have no idea where they would sell my favourite mangas (true story). Go figure lol.

 

[Esidemoken]

Fortunately I've been using mangadex for a few months now because I usually prefer to download manga using torrents, although it hurts that some of the manga I was following will surely take months to be uploaded to torrents.

 

[solnK!]

DAMMIT!!!!

If they took down hxh and JJBA SBR Im gonna cry so hard man.

 

[Rhent]

They contribute the preservation of mangas. Like all those fan translations. But now, some overzealous copyright zealots are attacking them.

 

[Fray Guillermo]

It's not like the people who were reading online are suddenly going to go out in droves and buy manga now

Exactly. When pirate Spotify was taken down I just waited until a new stable crack was available, no way I'm paying for premium.

In this case, thankfuly I use WeebCentral (formerly MangaSee) for almost everything, but it's a shame, MangaDex has always been a staple

 

[MojoShojo]

Man, the future kinda stinks, don't it? But hey, it's like a hydra. Where one falls, another will rise. Even if it takes a while.

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

WHY DO THEY KEEP HOSTING THE BIGGEST PIRACY WEBSITES AT DMCA-COMPLIANT HOSTING PROVIDERS ??????

 

[Soma_Shotgun]

Thankfully most of my saved manga on my nihon app is from Weebcentral. Unlike Mangadex, that one is way more under the radar. Hopefully it stays.

 

[glokglakglak]

and this is why i download