This is how FOSS dies.
Where the living fuck are the EFF's team of lawyers?
I know they generally focus on US cases, but god damn, you'd think the egregiousness of this would get their asses involved.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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I mean the eff can only do so much to defend people who didn't even fucking bother in the slightest to defend themselves and just rolled over at every turn
Was the case issued in Japan? From what I've read the legal system there is famously one sided, criminal cases have a 99.8% conviction rate.
Kakao is Korean, but no cases have been issued yet right? Only threats
I feel like eff has bigger cases then a manga app dying
One of Tachiyomi contributors will fork the app and continue development
https://old.reddit.com/r/mangapiracy/comments/195vq2e/a_tachiyomi_fork_hoping_to_be_the_spiritual/
Hopefully their personal information won't be found out by those lawyers, or they could also be threatened into stopping development. It's sad to see how companies are bullying volunteers into stopping legal projects.
Edit: SLAPP suits are similar to this, where companies file lawsuits while knowing they'd lose, if the defendent had the time, money and stress tolerance to win the lawsuit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation
There are already a lot of other forks no?
I created one just for the hell of it. Call me Spartacus.
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Maybe one of the forks will take off
Likely. If not, there's always Dantotsu.
Their reasoning is sound. They don't want to defend against a corporation for a hobbyist project. There's already going to be a fork so that's good I guess. I just hope jay forks it for a J2K version.
This is a big part of why I dislike consolidating downloading and viewing.
I've been using PerfectViewer on a tablet for viewing for ages. I'm sure there's a better one and would be game for recommendations, but I am very used to this app and its quirks.
There exist any number of ways to download and sync the chapters to my device. I currently mostly use the mangadex-dl script and a syncthings folder and it's no trouble. And all my read chapters I can just move into an archive drive where I'll have them if anything ever happens.
This is standard practice with media. You use something like MPV for viewing and the downloading is handled elsewhere.
The Streisand effect of this all is great. I can't be the only one that found out about this app (and the repos) because of the stupid law suit right? Amazing that they went after the container instead of the contents.
Can't wait for Glad or Rubbermaid to be C&D'd when the cops find contraband in one of their bags/bins.
I hate capitalism I hate capitalism
What even is Tachiyomi?
Edit: manga reading app, it also lets you follow sources and tells you when new episodes are published.
Perhaps one of the forks will take over.
R.I.P tachiyomi, I have used it for years. Kind of sad to see it go. Are the forks also abandoning development ? I have been using the TachiJ2k fork for the past 3 years or so.
I guess I will be shifting to kotatsu soon.
TachiyomiSY will still be actively developed. No idea about J2K but I read somewhere that the dev will implement third party repo support sometime next week so I guess that's a sign.
SY devs have announced to develop a new app that won't be just a tachiyomi fork.
Yeah Mihon is the successor to Tachyomi but TachyomiSY's dev also clarified that he'll still be working on SY as its own thing.
I don't know why they want to continue working on two different things when one clearly tries to be a successor.
No idea as well but more options is always good
more options are definitely good if the developers are different, i hope the devs aren't burner out by developing two applications serving the same purpose.
I use SY and I get the sense that Bobby is more of a fast and loose type while the Mihon dev is focused more on polish. My assumptions are based on the unpolished nature of SY features and the Mihon dev saying "some of us liked plain Tachiyomi" [sic].
RIP Tachiyomi, time to try out Kotatsu
JFC why? Fuck
why?
due to recent events involving Kakao Entertainment Corp's threats to both myself and others that have been involved with the project.
Greedy, this is literally
You buy digital items but you don't own them
You'll own nothing and you'll be happy
This is obviously sad and frustrating, but
P.P.S. I think someone on Reddit owes someone else $100 now.
Where can I find this juicey reference?
how wll this affect aniyomi?
in no way if the dev can still work on aniyomi
Fuckingcapitalists
There's already dozens of forks. There was before all of this even started. Sad to see it go, but the app itself and how it functions will pretty well certainly go on. Tachiyomi isn't even an app that needs routine updates, it's the extensions that do. So existing setups will probably work indefinitely so long as extensions continue getting updates...
So, sounds very "oh fuck" but for end users probably means literally nothing changes. Unless something breaks the functionality of the app, which really just means the reader and library and everything, it doesn't need active maintenance. Bugs might crop up occasionally, but everything looks fine as of now.
Ah yes, this will definitely make me buy Manga and Comics now. Good job Kakao whatstheirname company. Stuff like this definitely does not radicalize me further. Pinky promise.
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