Under that approach we might as well stop drinking water too, since all our tap water systems are very efficient at running small amounts of chlorine......we could all die.....welcome to 2010....

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.

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.

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.

There is the mouse which let Japan strengthen a copyright by force in California.
considering whether the Japanese Diet accepts the second threat now.

I am not arguing what OM is doing was right. I think it is safe to say the general public who reads OM is sad to see it go. The same goes for when Napster went away almost a decade ago.

OM was a great source where one can read the comic for free. It was fun while it lasted and sad to see it gone entirely away. I never argued it was O.K. for OM to continue. I was just refering that many of us really loved OM and could have enjoy it more if it stayed online.

Like most things in life, if it has to do with money, people will do whatever it takes to bring you down and one of the best way to do it legally is by suing. Perhaps manga creators and publishers lack the fund to continue or wants to benefit more by taking down OM. But you cannot deny the fact, there are many other scenario out there that can easily be argued.

I was basically pointing out where do you set the line? Today, as it seems, the longer human survive, the more laws being created. If we do not bomb ourselves, in the distant future, say year 7010, I bet what we are doing here will be illegal :)

The "slippery slope" argument doesn't work here. What OM was doing was CLEARLY illegal in every sense of the word. Just because it was popular doesn't make it legal. No new laws were enacted to take OM down. It just took as long as it did to do it.

But you cannot deny the fact, there are many other scenario out there that can easily be argued.

I do not know what you mean here.

*comicartist&publishingcompany dies.
*criminal gives it up.

chicken race now :D

For these past several years, the publishing company is a deficit of several billions of yen.
Life and the income that most of comic artists are the same level as a slave.

It's still the same with today's analogy of free distribution in the internet. The copyright laws that was originally dealing with printing have to deal with digital distribution today. That's the problem.

If that's the case, then what do you think of the Pirate Parties being legal in Europe, Canada and the USA? They are promoting an activity of criticizing the whole nature of copyright in the digital environment? Copyright issue itself is gray.

Read all of your posts carefully for few years on copyright. You seem to secretly love this concept. But that's just my guess.

Here are two options:

1. You keep complaining about online manga, games or movie piracy (which is still growing thanks to many forms of encryption) until you die.
2. You promote a middle way to satisfy both sides.

Actually, I'm in favor of reforming the copyright laws since they're early 20th century relics. And manga artists should have donation boxes embedded in their website or blogs.

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the pirate parties are a gray area. theres 1 in sweden and even they arent safe anymore they are everyday under fire from news and many other political parties i doubt they will last long. but MMM is correct in the end piracy kills everything look at pc gaming now? slowly dieing because developers will not put out games for the pc due to lack of anti piracy measures. in the end everyone will lose out not just the people who pay.