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petroniaCopyright law seems to be the leitmotif of the past couple of weeks - first Charmian's comment thread, then Squid's. Plowed through last month's AMLA discussion on scanlations tonight, then... wrote an email that 1) linked to scans 2) committed me to making a few CD copies of both digisubs and scanlated manga and 3) hailed the fact that someone else was making me CD copies of digisubs. Oh well. _O_ I've always been poor in ethics, which being Chinese and historically low on spending money hasn't helped. (There are two stories from my early childhood that belong here, one about being sent to nursery school with the measles and the other about a white hen that was later a very delicious soup, that explain said poverty in ethics. The first taught me that all grownups - even beloved ones - are hypocrites, and the second that I am an irretrievably fallen person who would eat her friends to satisfy her own base cravings. And all before the age of five.)
There's a vague combination of personal guilt and aesthetic preference working to keep me in line, though - personal in the sense of geez A-sensei was so nice about asking us not to take her art I couldn't look her in the eye if I did, and aesthetic in the sense of what sort of insane person *wants* to watch anime in a 200-pixel square box and read manga page-by-page on a screen? Neither of which demonstrates a particularly well-developed moral sense, once again. ^_^;;;
There's a vague combination of personal guilt and aesthetic preference working to keep me in line, though - personal in the sense of geez A-sensei was so nice about asking us not to take her art I couldn't look her in the eye if I did, and aesthetic in the sense of what sort of insane person *wants* to watch anime in a 200-pixel square box and read manga page-by-page on a screen? Neither of which demonstrates a particularly well-developed moral sense, once again. ^_^;;;
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Date: 2003-04-06 05:33 am (UTC)Digisubs, well. I buy UK anime releases, to support them, and I also hoard digisubs. I am an unethical so and so.
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Date: 2003-04-06 04:23 pm (UTC)I doubt even the most devoted P2P downloader honestly prefers to read manga onscreen, but it comes down to the triple bugaboo of pricing, accessibility and comprehensibility. ^_^; If manga were paperback-cheap, available in bookstores everywhere and in one's own language, no one would bother to download them online. There's a reason you never see French scanlations of anything.
The argument for and against scanlations is basically the argument for and against P2P music trading. As with the latter, I don't find it a clear-cut issue.
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Date: 2003-04-07 10:12 am (UTC)It could be that the Internet is full of French scanlations, but that we can't find them cause we don't know what the French word for scanlations is. (I have the same problem with French fanfic. I'm sure it's out there, I just don't know what it's called)
--Erin
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Date: 2003-04-07 10:43 am (UTC)Hrm. Obviously I'd rather read manga in my own language than sit with a dictionary and poke at it, muttering "are you the kanji for 'ninja'?", but manga doesn't cost much more than the average paperback at my local store- about £8 instead of £6-7 for a paperback novel. Perhaps this is unusually good pricing, but I suppose a novel does represent better value for money than a few pages of big-eyed boys with swords. (I am angry at CLAMP for their anemic installments of /X/. ^_^)
The French are manga-spoiled, damn them.
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Date: 2003-04-07 12:35 pm (UTC)