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   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   On 06/27/2010 02:25 AM, dumpster4@hotmail.com wrote:   
   > "As promised, the newly formed coalition of Japanese   
   > and US manga publishers has indicated it is pursuing   
   > legal action against major manga piracy and scanlation   
   > sites in defence of its copyrights.   
   >   
   > The Digital Comic Association, a Japanese publisher   
   > group supposedly formed to promote digital sales but   
   > fast turning into the manga equivalent of the RIAA,   
   > has partnered with 4 top English language publishers   
   > to tackle a short-list of 30 problem sites.   
   >   
   > Starting with the US sites, those who ignore legal   
   > warnings will be sued for damages and subjected to   
   > criminal charges where appropriate."   
   >   
   > See:   
   >   
   > http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/06/27/publishers-to-sue-man   
   a-piracy-sites/   
      
      
   	Read all the stories on that site and you will see that the industrial   
   model   
   of manga publication in Japan as in the USA is essentially starving the   
   artists.   
   I might have said short-changing but it seems inadequate to the described   
   situation.  I have been buying manga on the assumption that some part of   
   the   
   license fees would get back to the authors.  I was mistaken in that   
   assumption.   
      
   	later   
   	Bobbie Sellers   
      
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