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Fan translators asking for payment for latest chapters for comics, webtoons, manhwa, manga... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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There is a trend currently were fan translaters are paywalling the latest chapters, with poor translations. What are your thoughts on this? I don't mind asking for donations, but asking for money with mediocre translation is scammy.

Examples: https://asuracomic.net/ https://madarascans.com/ https://nightsup.net/ https://casacomic.com/

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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 79 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That stops being a fan translation at that point. (It also opens the translator up to much bigger legal problems)

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 21 hours ago

Exactly, this opens up legal problems. This is the exact reason that Nintendo was able to go after Yuzu, because they started taking money from people. Donations are fine, but when you are profiting this opens up legal troubles. What's funny is that these fan translater have a DCMA reporting email like they are not profiting from copyrightable content.