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   From: ratinox@newsguy.com   
      
   What they're on about is the change in the nature of fan translated   
   manga.  Back in the day -- circa 1990 -- if you wanted a fan-translated   
   manga you bought a copy of that manga from an importer such as   
   Kinokunia.  You obtained a translation script from a fan translator such   
   as Mike House or Sue Shambaugh.  You read them side-by-side.  If you were   
   especially ambitious you used your University's flatbed scanner to scan   
   pages and used MacPaint to replace Japanese text with English.  I   
   actually did this for myself with "Gokuu Midnight Eye" and Mike's scripts   
   on a Mac Plus.  It took me months to complete the 2 volumes available at   
   the time and the pages spanned about 150 3.5" diskettes.   
      
   Today, if someone downloads scanlated manga pages without buying   
   originals then the publisher gets nothing.  That's what they're really   
   pissed off about.  The claims that "there's no market in the US" are   
   disingenous.  The market most certainly did exist, but it was a gray   
   market, one that they cannot easily acknowledge.  That market has dried   
   up and the publishers are lashing out at the most obvious targets.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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