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[NEWS] Mangadex hit by massive DMCA takedown, 700+ series gone (forums.mangadex.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Pyrus@lemm.ee to c/manga@ani.social

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List of affected manga from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mangadex/comments/1kmzg9q/list_of_manga_affected_by_the_dmca_takedown_to/

Mangadex will release an official list soon (?).

[Update]

A reddit user compiled a sorted spreadsheet without duplicates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vxvAHxmLLgAEEq-jWbDw5fxHMdz1N_PNWe3OPXtrin0/edit?gid=0#gid=0

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[–] wjs018@ani.social 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is pretty tragic as a non-trivial percentage of these series just aren't available legally in English. I started putting together a list of the series I am reading or have recently read, but it was just too depressing. Between the recent takedown of Tachiyomi and now this, it isn't going to drive people to buy things legally (it it's even possible) as much as it is just going to drive people away from the medium altogether. Piracy will still exist for the very driven fans, but the general consumer will just move on to something else vying for their attention.

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Being available is one thing but quality is also important. I started rereading an older series recently and had to switch to the official source for a few chapters - the image quality difference between MD and the official source was horrendous (with the latter being worse obviously).

If you're a publisher then at least provide people with some decent reading experience instead of forcing better alternatives out. Corpos never learn...

[–] Unboxious@ani.social 19 points 2 weeks ago

It's crazy how low-res the images often are even when you pay for digital manga from the official source. I know they have higher-res images because the print version is sharper!