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Kougeru
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they sure love wasting money on this. why not go after all the AI companies then? they're stealing far more than any single website ever has
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Saya_Shisuki
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 1:03 pm |
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| Kougeru wrote: | | they sure love wasting money on this. why not go after all the AI companies then? they're stealing far more than any single website ever has |
I think those AI Companies will give huge commission to them..otherwise these companies will get huge legal notice with large amount money..I maybe wrong
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CrowLia
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 8:39 pm |
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| Saya_Shisuki wrote: | | Kougeru wrote: | | they sure love wasting money on this. why not go after all the AI companies then? they're stealing far more than any single website ever has |
I think those AI Companies will give huge commission to them..otherwise these companies will get huge legal notice with large amount money..I maybe wrong |
Lmao, AI companies don't pay a dime for all the stuff they steal, and they're open about it. Sam Altman (OpenAI/ChatGPT CEO) has gone on record saying that if they had to pay for all the content they stole for their models, they'd go bankrupt. So no, AI companies aren't paying webtoon or any other media company a single penny for all the art they stole from them, yet none of these massive corporations that keep hammering us about how piracy is bleeding them dry seem to be even slightly concerned about it.
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Tamer Sakura
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 9:01 pm |
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| Kougeru wrote: | | they sure love wasting money on this. why not go after all the AI companies then? they're stealing far more than any single website ever has |
I get people don't like AI but that's really an apple and oranges situation. Piracy affects them a lot more than AI does. If people want to read a webtoon and they go to a pirate site that's a potential lost sale. An AI training off that webtoon to make something else entirely is a different thing entirely unless it's directly making a copy of that webtoon to be an alternative way to read it.
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MyMasterMatthew
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 11:14 pm |
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| Tamer Sakura wrote: | | Kougeru wrote: | | they sure love wasting money on this. why not go after all the AI companies then? they're stealing far more than any single website ever has |
Piracy affects them a lot more than AI does. If people want to read a webtoon and they go to a pirate site that's a potential lost sale. |
I'm sure that's true to some degree, but what's also true is that piracy has introduced some people to series they never would have checked out otherwise. Back when downloading anime with fansubs was prevalent, I got into a show called Hakuoki, which I'd never heard of before it was offered to me illegally. I followed the group's other fansubbed shows, so I figured, "Why not give this one a shot, too?" I've since spent money on Hakuoki video games, but had I not experienced the anime illegally, Idea Factory wouldn't have gotten a single cent from me. They don't like to admit this, but piracy hasn't been 100% bad for their bottom line.
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