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Originally Posted by MMM
I am going to disagree with you here. The value of the manga and anime has been reduced to $0.00. You can't compete when you are charging more than that.
Many people are willing to pay...if not then there would be no industry...but that does excuse the stealing of content. I explained that above, and the industry is starting to explore ways to beat the timing issue. However, that doesn't excuse the act of stealing. You are talking about not capitalism, but post-apocolyptic capitalism on a non-post apocolyptic world. It is the Wild West on the Internet and you have a generation of manga "fans" that do not read books, but off their computers.
Make it is easy to pay for content as it is to steal it, and people will still steal it, still. People who want to pay for manga want to buy books. People who steal read them online. Will people pay to read them online? Maybe some would. I wouldn't.
Not paying regardless is an empty argument. They are stealing content instead of doing SOMETHING else. That something else could be going to a movie, buying a video game, etc.
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Well i live in Pakistan and regardless of the low pay rates here i'm willing to save up to buy licensed manga and anime but my problem is that no one here sells that stuff. The only option for me and many other fans around the world is to get them online and because the base price + shipping costs and custom pay on the goods there's no way im going to pay that much. I would benefit from such an online service. If such a service is available