gah

[insaneneko]

I'm a bit peeved at yet another case of scanlation groups thinking they own the titles they are working on. Vices and Devices had scanlated the first chapter of Yoneda Kou's Ore ni koishite dousunda, a manga I want to read more of but can only find Chinese scans for. No tankobon yet, either. They then didn't update for nine months. Three more chapters came out in Japan during the time. Fairly recently someone started scanlating the series at Manga Fox (unfortunately the English is a bit painful, but better than staring at gibberish....). She'd almost finished doing all the chapters when she got contacted by the scanlation group about their "claims" to the title (as she put it in her post here). God, I hate this stupid sense of ownership that scanlation groups have. I want to read the rest of the damned series, I don't give a crap who does it! Especially when the original group even does an update post with a title that claims they are posting the new chapter but say "just joking!" in the post itself. Thanks for fucking with the people who want the next chapter released already.

In conclusion, Vices and Devices sucks. Not as badly as some other groups, but they still suck.

Comments

[zehavit-lamasu.livejournal.com]

I am amazed that they still wank to this tune to be quite honest. It is a very old one and rather annoying considering how the entire business of scanlations is a bit legally shady to put it mildly.

I am not against scanlations mind you - I am just miffed at the use of the word "ethical" in that regard.

What surprised me is that s/he gave in to this ridiculous demand. I would have asked to see the law book or book of "copy right piracy manners" and ask if I vices and devices claims could be used as a statement in court... and then continued scanlating.

At the end of the day - they should take a leaf out of fan-subbers books - there are those who sub fast and those who sub well and those that do both and it is up to the fans to choose which to watch.

[warui-futago.livejournal.com]

I read this last night and was totally pissed of not only because they lay claim to the project that has remained stagnant but also to have the person scanlating it at mangafox join their group. I'm sure they hit a jackpot on that. They have time being a police watchdog at other groups but they don't have time to work on their project LOL! I think V&D are the ones who are unethical here and yeah, they suck!

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

There seems to be a very strong "ownership" thing going in BL scanlation groups that people tend to respect. If I was the scanlator I'd have continued with the scanlating, especially since s/he is almost done with what's available!