If you are an avid follower of some series, I am sure some of you are using online manga readers until the official tankabons are released in your country/language. Or maybe you are one of us who simply follow the series on the online reading sites and don't buy the volumes since there isn't a company in your countryt who licenced them/since you cannot buy the English versions because none of the book stores in your city or provency sell even the English versions....

I have seen many debates concerning the ethics and legal disposition of scanlating Manga/subbing Anime. Well, as a dedicated leech all I can say that piracy is surely not the best option for us who live in some parts of Europe, Africa and Western parts of Asia -places where Eastern culture and media products are not so popular in views of licensing companies- but, and it is a very big BUT, we are somehow forced to depend on Anime Subbers and Manga Scanlators to enjoy what we want.

Of course there many reasons for a leech to depend on them; a single tankabon volume of manga could be bought for 5-7 USD in Japan-sometimes even lesser than that-, but when you add the costly shipping fees, a single manga volume from for example Viz comes to you around 30-40 bucks -it is if they ship to your country and if you know English :P- And I can't even imagine how much a DVD would cost to you if you are again trying to buy an English licenced version from a foreign website because your country doesn't give a shit about Anime licencing...

Heck... Even though it sometimes disturbs me to use illegal methods to watch the animes I like or read the mangas that I follow, there is nothing that I could do to contribute to the sales of the series that I can't live without. I am not willing to pay 30 buck s for a single volume, because that nearly equals to the payment of my one day worth of labor.

Considering that I am greatly saddened to hear that One Manga and Manga Reader are going to close down due to some legal issues.

You all know that Manga Fox tried to purge some of the licensed but very popular series recently. But that apparently backfired to them. Because they put up Bleach, Naruto, One Piece and many other series back -though there are some missing/can no longer be found scanlations there especially in Yaoi/Yuri and other Mature sections that include violence-gore-sex-inappropirate language etc... Also there have been reports considering virus/trojan infections whilst using MFox even when you don't click on the Ads.

Also some of you might be aware of the ACTA treaty that is supposed to be put in action in  Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, The Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States. The agreement is focusing on the international enforcement of strong intellectual property rights. Of course it sounds acceptable and supportable even for a leech like me who has random boults of guilt she reads/watches illegal copies of Manga/Anime.

But it is not that simple. The treaty covers such a huge arena with such vague terms that you2ll be frightened once you click onto this link and read it for yourselves: http://www.anti-acta.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=1

I really wonder how things will change and how we will rage about what the agreement brought upon us. I believe most of the Anime/Manga/Fanfiction/Torrent/MP3 sites will be shut down permanently and even the subbers, scanlators, fan artists and fic writers will have no where to turn to. And thus will die a huge aspect of today's pop culture.

Yea, sad thing is sad....

Monday morning and there is  no Code Geass new episode torrent on Mininova.... There must be a mistake....

cries in a corner