State of Mind
Decoy
I don't know whether it is really legal here. We can't link scanlated manga chapters here, for example.
My President is Funny Valentine.
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I think that's the point: To get rid of them all.
Lessee
Yeah, those are pretty much the ones I know off.
I know of the following:
mangafox.me
www.mangapanda.com
Ignoring the ones which have already been mentioned.
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Also. if you're not comfortable putting sites out in the open, P Ms are always welcome.
This is a slightly unrelated question, but I've been seeing people adding links to mangafox, and then when I go to check the link, it takes you to a blank page saying licensed works are not available. My question is, why are people adding these links? Because these are new links, to manga that have been taken off mangafox months or years ago. I'm just confused.
I've been interested into this for some time, given that I often encounter scanlation sites during my cleanup runs.
That said:
www.mangapark.com/
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Edit: Misread.
edited 31st Jan '13 12:41:17 PM by Arha
One Winged Egret
It's because mangafox is using a system that looks at your IP and blocks you if it thinks you're coming from particular countries. So if you're in the US it blocks you because the series is licensed in the US, but if you're in Germany or whatever it's not licensed and they don't block. Or, more likely, they haven't received any C&D letters from any German companies.
So the people adding the links are from a different country than you and can see it fine. That's also why, well, why mangafox even bothers to have a page for the series. They haven't removed the content, they just restrict access to it.
edited 31st Jan '13 12:48:56 PM by Clarste
mangahelpers.com
Also, will we be tracking down forum links as well? My feeling would be that a link of dubious legality is a problem everywhere.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Hi
My gut says yes, but I can't remember for certain.
EDIT: Got confirmation, nuke 'em in the forums and the wiki.
edited 31st Jan '13 4:52:30 PM by Willbyr
Are the links going to be removed entirely, replaced by a notice say they were removed, or just broken?
The middle case would only apply to the forums of course.
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Either of the first two; my guess would be replaced with something like [MOD NOTE: Do not link to scanlations].
Wiki links will simply be removed.
Forum links - that would depend upon the moderator doing the post edit, since I don't have post editing powers.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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Raising this from the dead as we’re talking about the possibility of actually doing this at some point in the future.
EDIT: Here's a link to a sandbox page for the project: Sandbox.Scanlation Sites
Edited by Willbyr on Feb 17th 2021 at 3:27:20 AM
Question: What will happen to links to scanslation sites that are officially used by the manga's owners?
For example, the official english translation of the Honkai Impact 3rd Web Comic posted by miHoYo themselves on Mangadex?
the Retromancer
Sandbox.Scanlation Sites lists four Tropers pages. Anyone tried talking to them?
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Basically, if you guys know of a scanlation site, please post the name as it would appear in the URL, such as onemanga.com or mangafox.com. I have an idea for a cleanup thread for scanlation links, but it hinges on having the names handy to run search scripts.