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Originally Posted by KylieHJensen
Uniting and taking OM down is similar to Music Industry took down Napster. It comes down to dollar and cents. We are talking about being reluctant to allow piracy on the internet. It has nothing to do with knowing manga publishing or not, rather about money being lost from not buying manga and reading it for free.
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You seem to think manga creators and publishers are fat cats and trust me, that is far from the case. It took the competition uniting to attack the illegal pirates. Yes, it is about money. Money=survival. Why should One Manga profit off something that doesn't belong to them.
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Originally Posted by komitsuki
Haha. No, since you're unusually strange for a mod.
And did you know that open source lawyers have been challenging some of the copyright laws indirectly for years? Especially in the States? Especially the SCO Group lawsuits? Open source isn't much about alternative as to bring balance between proprietary and open (i.e. downloading for free) worlds.
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You choose your words carefully, but that doesn't mask that fact that taking something from someone and giving it away for profit doesn't need "balance". It is wrong. It is illegal. Black and white. No grey.
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Originally Posted by komitsuki
Otherwise. You want to stop internet piracy for good? Then shut down the internet since the internet is too efficient to share and copy contents. Welcome to the internet, everyone.
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That's silly. That's like shutting down interstate highways to stop drug trafficking. A little drastic. There is nothing wrong with fighting against illegal activity on the Internet.