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Originally Posted by SSJup81
And how does one go about that? I can think of a couple of titles I'd like to have, but one is old (80s), and doesn't even have scanlations (not that I care..I'd take this series original and just ask someone to translate lol) and its anime NEEDS TO HAVE A DAMN RE-RELEASE (darn you Bandai!!), and the other one still doesn't have a license.
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1. Just because you can't think of a way to legally satisfy yourself, doesn't make it right to do it illegally, so this point is irrelevant to the discussion.
2. I know nothing really about business or markets beyond supply and demand. If there's a market that a company knows about and it's big enough to justify the price of shipping (and maybe getting rights) there, then it will inevitably start appearing there. So for this reason I imagine just by buying any manga in your area you can encourage it. Obviously it'd be better to buy manga from the publisher you want.
What I take away from this discussion is, although it's been very positive that many people have said they will now curtail their downloading, people clearly do what they want and justify it
after the fact. We all do this of course, but when it is actually causing people to suffer somewhere, we should question how 'necessary' our hobby is, and whether it may be more important to care about even the risk of someone else's livelihood, even if they're not right in front of us.