It was small and clubby, and
most scanlators had an informal rule that they would stop translating a series (and often pull their scanlations from circulation) once it was licensed by a publisher.
Not exact matches
Fanboy / girl
scanlators are a dime a dozen and
most full - time pro translators won't touch manga, let alone anything literary, because it's kind of hard to make ends meet on a minuscule percentage of net profits paid up to a year after completion.
The big scanlation aggregator sites are blatant pirates (some also sell bootleg merchandise), but
most small
scanlators aren't actually trying to screw over their favorite artists, and manga publishers don't have to be stupid, like Paramount in the»90s trying to stamp out Star Trek fansites.