623 wrote...
Someone already suggested this. I don't remember where or whom, but that would be stupid and hypocritical as hell. Not to mention the deal with Wani might forbid that in the contract; who knows.
Honestly i would think this would be a more beneficial solution, as it stands now, fakku is slowly losing a lot of the community that did not use the forums, or did not make a account, meaning less people talking about fakku, meaning less advertisement, meaning less possible sales, by having a baby site, yes it would shift large portion of the community, and in a way say "we support pirating", but depending on how you look at it, they could easily leave the "pirated versions" on the baby site until they could give a official version of it, meaning that they are trying to eliminate pirating, but acknowledge it will always be around, and in turn trying to limit the amount a pirating by focusing on what is popular in the pirating community and getting a official release for people to access instead of going to pirated scanlations
blackice85 wrote...
I would assume that Wani would axe their deal with Fakku if they were to try something shady like that, and they would be well within their rights to do so in my opinion.
Its only shady if fakku has a direct hand in it, or does not purpose the idea in a way that shows them the benefits of having it, as i explained in the above quote
See a big corporation is looking at sales numbers, as why they don't like pirating as they see it as loss in sales, but no matter what you do, pirating will always be around, instead of ignoring it and sweeping it under the rug or trying to fight it, it would be better to use it to benefit sales.
As for companies having issue with them hosting a baby site, as long as it has no way to connect to their official site, and the content they are selling is not redistributed on it without being taken down ASAP, most companies won't care, and that is only if fakku decides to do this "officially", the best solution would be that someone of the community start it up on their own, give massive ads to fakku, and possibly talk to jacob about sending the unlicensed content to their site, granted that could also be consider bad, so the best solution for that would be for jacob to just so happen to make a topic that lists the upcoming content that will be removed, and for that person to just so happen to download and add it to their site, meaning there would be no possible way to say that jacob intentionally helped a "pirating" site, and jacob could "accidentally" find this site, and watches it to find what is popular in the pirating community, to get deals to make more profit, and once the official content has been created, suddenly the scanlations for that series that are on the site no longer exist
There are many loop holes to contracts, and there is many ways for a offical site to benefit from pirating, if you do it right.