[Locked] FAKKU State of the Union 2016

How so? If you're actually smart enough you would not leave any proof of what you do. I do believe Wani and the publishers are linked to fakku by some kind of contract, and if Wani or the other publishers cannot find any proof that this new website is in any way sponsored or supported by fakku, what right do they have to drop it? They themselves would incur charges if they randomly pointed accusations at Jacob.
Besides, so what if new content stops? we're talking about the majority of the population who want the old database back, not the people who don't mind the paywall.
I'm only asking Fakku to donate their old database to pirates who want to keep the dream alive.
I don't know whether you've thought about what you said, but a lot of projects take this kind of turn when the problem of legality shows up, and I see no difference.

There are a number of things wrong with this alternative idea.

1) In Japanese business, honor and trust are HUGE. You betray the trust of a company you are partnered with and you are done doing business in Japan.. FOREVER. The anime / manga / video game industry is especially VERY small. Everyone knows each other and everyone talks. Word spreads VERY VERY fast.

2) Finding out about an alternative site would be VERY EASY to do. Word of mouth, domain records, similar information, a random post here or there. Honestly, it would be very easy to make the connection.

3) You mention putting up a notification on FAKKU about this "alternative site" and putting ads of FAKKU on there. That immediately connects us to it and endorses the continued piracy of the content. This immediately would betray the trust we have built in Japan already.

I'm sorry to break it to you, but this is not how business works. You do not meet with a company, build trust and a relationship with them, to then immediately turn around and betray that trust.

Doing this would not only cause FAKKU's downfall via a massive lawsuit, but also ruin the potential for any future company to try and provide a similar service with any other company in Japan.

Trying to hide something on the internet? How Naive lol.


News Flash, every single site in the world has everything Fakku has regarding the "old content" even without Fakku needing to "donate" them.

I found that the subscription is very worth it as they publish a wide variety of content each month and I'm happy to see content that would never have been translated by a scanlator come to the light of day (in the English speaking world) I unfortunately had to discontinue my subscription due to personal financial issues, but I will resubscribe once I get a stable income again. (This might not happen before next October tho...)

If you had them saved in your favorites/collections, exporting these also includes information on the removed content.

I love that FAKKU has made the decision to remove all unlicensed content from their website, myself as an artist understand how terrible it is to have your work taken from you. I am very happy for their courageous decision and support them 100%, however, the price for subscribing is unrealistic, in my opinion. The only item of luxury I pay that is above $10 is World of Warcraft. But that is for five expansions of content, and endless things to do. Hell, even Hulu and Netflix are priced under $10 a month.

In short, not many logical, normal people, no offense to anyone, would pay over $10 for cartoon porn, albeit a lot of it, but still. It is an unrealistic cost and I would love to see it lowered to something like $8, 9$ a month.

Or, another suggestion, have tiers of subscribe. Perhaps normal content would be priced at $8 or $9 and premium would be your higher cost. I'm not sure what would set the content apart to make premium a sweet deal, but you guys at fakku are the thinkers.

I love you guys at FAKKU and I won't leave, but as the price remains where it is, it is currently not a luxury I am willing to pay for.

Cow out.

I do agree with what you've said, and I'd like to think if a plan like this were to be carried out, it would have revisions.

1) I do not know much about trust between Japanese companies, but I think from my sparse business engagements with them, I can conclude what you say is right. Thus I wholly agree but think that this should still be carried out. I would like to say though, that the anime/manga/video game industry in Japan is not as small as you think it is. What globalized it, and possibly 'shrinked' its supposed size is probably the internet.

2) All I am merely seeking for is material, and possibly permission to replicate a UI. Understandably materials are easy to obtain from other places, but since, my motive here is to preserve the fakku from the past, I would like to derive it from here.

3) Perhaps that does seem like fakku does endorse piracy, and I agree.I take that back, fakku should not post or in fact advertise if this supposed website were to happen.

About business, I work in a company where I manage company-company relations, and I can assure you, trust and relationship are not the only things at play in a deal. Many other factors are involved and many try to attain the upper hand by using cunning terms to negotiate. Trust is almost always thrown on the afterburner when profit is involved.

I do understand where you are heading, but I think you misunderstand the fact that I do not want to create a copy of old Fakku, instead I want another standalone site that supports fakku because the original user base came from fakku. If supporting fakku will bring about its downfall, then by all means, no relations at all should be had.



I would like it if you refrained from personal attacks?

Maybe you don't know about the many things that people do on the internet that everyone doesn't have the proof for yet.

If you looked closer you might see that I'm not going for the database, I'm going for the clean UI. And sure, everything in fakku can be found somewhere else, I'm just paying my respects.

That's a blatant workaround that PayPal will surely notice. They've said that they actually have employees whose job it is to watch for that sort of thing, so it'll only get Fakku into trouble with them.

When someone talks about "the industry" they do not include the audience or consumer as part of "the industry". So when I say the anime industry is small, I am not saying the audience is small. The industry itself, the people who create & license the anime / manga / video games, is very small even without the internet.

About business, I've been working at FAKKU for a year. But before that I worked at Digital Manga. Before that I worked at Anime Expo for 5 years. Girlfriend works for Good Smile Company. Being in the industry, you quickly realize that everyone knows each other and everyone works together at some point in one way or another. The anime / manga / game industry is small. That's a fact.

> Trust is almost always thrown on the afterburner when profit is involved.
That may be true in western business practices, but in Japan, you do that and they will blackball you. In Japan, Trust is the key and utmost important factor when doing business.



I've never had any issues bringing in doujinshi from Japan o.O Canada maybe but the US? Nah. It's very rare that they search your bags. They just ask "you have any tobacco, firearms or produce? why were you there? okay. welcome home". You could even apply for the Global Entry thing by TSA to have an extra layer of trust from TSA.

Jacob fighting piracy? Hmmm well not online then because i found all fakku's stuff on every torrent site and many readers. Maybe if the chinese bootleg printed books maybe.