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   David Johnston to All   
   Re: Youka Nitta acknowledges plagiarism,   
   19 Jul 08 19:07:05   
   
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   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:04:45 -0700 (PDT), darkstar7646@gmail.com   
   wrote:   
      
   >On Jul 18, 11:32 am, David Johnston  wrote:   
   >   
   >> You haven't answered the question.  How does it place a significant   
   >> question on the other two and the entire genre?   
   >   
   >How many people are actually legitimately drawing their manga, rather   
   >than stealing it?   
      
   How does one person tracing once make it likely that they all do it?   
      
   This is going to open up the entire BL community   
   >(at minimum) to that question...   
      
   Why restrict it to BL?  Why not have it call the integrity of every   
   artist in the world into question?  At which point, who gives a rat's   
   ass?   
      
   >   
   >I mean, don't you think the same kinds of questions would be asked if   
   >one or more members of CLAMP were so exposed?   
      
   Well by idiots, I suppose.  Nobody rational would paint an entire   
   industry that way based on a single incident.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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