Forum - View topicINTEREST: Pirated Manga Artist Gujira Not Quitting After All
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DmonHiro
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Is everyone as surprised as I am? It's such a shocking development.
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prime_pm
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Not really. I checked their website (by accident *whistling*) earlier this week and found out about this. I figured that news was related somehow. And here we are.
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Levitz9
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The guy really deserves this big break. Hopefully, his work finds lots of fans in the U.S.
Best wishes to the guy. 
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Cutiebunny
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...does his initial slave offer still stand...?
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KH91
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And there you have it. We knew you'd cave.
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partially
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Damn I sort of wish he had started distributing viruses to his paying customers... You're loyal? Have a virus!
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Paulo27
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[Edit]: removed troll comment. Errinundra.
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KilluaX3
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[Edit]: report trolls; don't feed them, especially with abuse of your own. Errinundra.
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walw6pK4Alo
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They didn't land a deal. Fakku already had complete access to his work via Wani's catalog. They had already translated two chapters of his before this whole "waaah I'm gonna quit" spat. What a dumb title. Perhaps at best his bitching caused Fakku to expedite getting his book out.
From Fakku:
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encrypted12345
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Making your works actually accessible is the best way to combat piracy. Many pirates only pirate because getting it legally would be too expensive. While many will still pirate regardless, many of those people will start buying as well.
Well, you could also blow up the internet, but reducing the number of people who pirate is pointless if you end up preventing actual sales in the process (which is why many companies opt for going DRM-free when enough people complain.) |
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Kikaioh
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I LOL'd so hard at this. Gotta' admit he's a funny guy, I rather fancy his line of reasoning. 
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chex mix
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This guy is a legend.
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Hoppy800
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Gujiri, Master Troll
We all fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. |
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dark13
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Why China piracy is here to stay.
Cheap knock-offs is sort of a thing in China. They call it the shanzhai — imitation and piracy of name brands, be it Gears of War for PlayStation or the latest Adobe Photoshop. In China, said Tom Doctoroff, author of the book “What Chinese Want” and a China marketing guru at J. Walter Thompson, managing a fake Apple store, or any kind of fake this or that, is heralded as good ole fashion entrepreneurship. “When it comes to innovation, the Chinese won’t deliver,” he told me in a phone interview back in mid-May. “China is the total flip-side of the U.S. Piracy goes back to the China world view that individual rights don’t matter. The courts have never evolved to protect innovative individuals. There is still very much the ethos that economic growth has to be managed, so individual and intellectual property, where the spoils go to one entity or one person, is not a cultural value,” he said. IP protection will always be an uphill struggle in China and for companies doing business there. And that’s mainly because of the fact that individual rights remain a theoretical notion at best. Chinese civilization exists courtesy of a top down structure. Even the education system mitigates against broad-based embrace of IP protection. Until IP infringement is seen as an immediate threat to economic success, or advanced as a vital state interest, few will really care whether Windows 8 is a knock-off, or if the X Box 360 sold in Shanghai is being hacked to allow for a pirated version of 2K Sports NBA Basketball. Microsoft ran its anti-piracy ad in China when it launched Windows 7 to counter the bad habit. In the ad, two young Chinese techies are seated at a desk. The guy who paid full price is being heralded by his thumbs-up boss as a good worker. His bamboo plant is growing tall and green in a pot on his desk. His trash can is clean, save for maybe one piece of paper. Behind him is the guy using the pirated version of the software. And man does he look down. A big X on his screen, head in his hands. Boss pointing a finger at him, trash can full of paper, power cords tangled up all over the place, and wilted flowers on his desk to add to his miserable work life. Yet, many Chinese think illegal software is the smart choice because it’s cheaper. Computer sales people have incentive to reinforce this perception because they can increase sales margins by replacing genuine with copies instead. Link http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/07/22/in-china-why-piracy-is-here-to-stay/#26ba300d6b9b |
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Renasviel
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Speak for yourself, his whole little whine at pirates stealing his work reeked of a cry for attention, a ploy to get his work more publicity, and look, it worked. Now more people know of him, his work, and will probably be more likely to check it out. Genius - free advertising really. Fair play to him, in all honesty. |
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