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SinisterOracle
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Yet another DRM-filled money grab. If I owned the ebooks I purchased, without DRM, I’d happily buy ebooks. Until then I buy physical copies.
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kgw
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 7:51 am |
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Meh, some of the series "free" are already in Manga UP for us ROTW peasants. Nothing lost.
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Chiyosuke
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 10:20 am |
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Funny this pops up immediately after the whole DMP fiasco
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FishLion
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 12:00 pm |
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| SinisterOracle wrote: | | Yet another DRM-filled money grab. If I owned the ebooks I purchased, without DRM, I’d happily buy ebooks. Until then I buy physical copies. |
For real, unless there's a discount or it's DRM-free I'm probably just going to buy the print version since it usually costs about the same. I'm not going to pay full price or very close for licensing a manga on an app that could very well shutdown and make it a pain to keep accessing it.
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enurtsol
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Piracy Data: Film & TV No Longer Problem No. 1 in 2025 — It’s Manga
| Quote: | | While film and TV are usually what come to mind when discussing digital piracy, data from research firm Muso shows the fastest-growing target in 2024 wasn’t any kind of video format at all.
That honor, or dishonor in this case, goes to written media — a spike almost exclusively due to Japanese manga.
With the art form’s worldwide appeal, views for unlicensed manga sites have grown by over 300% from 2019 to 2024
As with film and TV, lack of access to manga is the main driver behind the global surge in unlicensed demand |
America Is Crowned the World's Worst Offender for Manga Piracy
| Quote: | | The United States of America is now the world's biggest country when it comes to manga piracy, according to new data.
Data analytics company MUSO recently released its "2023 Piracy by Industry Data Review," which revealed that the U.S. is the leading contributor to manga piracy, gaining over 13% of the globe's overall piracy traffic.
In addition, manga is the most pirated published medium, comprising 69% of all pirated published material in the world. This includes novels, web fiction and audiobooks. Publishing piracy has even overtaken film piracy to become the second-most pirated medium in 2020, coming in behind only TV piracy, increasing by 7.4% in 2023. |
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