Sentences with phrase «make scanlation»

The distance between the US and Japan may make scanlation seem less piracy - like than uploading a comic drawn by someone who speaks the same language and lives in the same country.

Not exact matches

Scanlators, of course, make nothing at all; they work for love, not money, and one of the justifications that scanlation readers use for their habit is that fan - translators do a better job than those who work for commercial publishers.

Most popular manga scanlations read online for free at mangafox, as well as a close - knit community to chat and make friends.

Scanlations were around before the US manga companies decided to start making money on the medium.

But, one fine day, there was a coordinated legal attack by almost all of the impacted publishers and all of the better known sites offering scanlations were shut down, which was followed by a period of vigorous enforcement designed to prevent the scanlation model from resurfacing elsewhere on the web until people got out of the habit of making and reading them.

For example, «scanlations» (which are fan driven translations of entire manga series using scans of the original Japanese or Korean language graphic novels, photoshopping out the original dialog, and then inserting translated dialog, prepared without compensation by the translators and made available on the web), were silently tolerated for many years by the publishers of those works, even though they are clear and obvious copyright violations as derivative works.