tuengo183 wrote...
Gentlemen, calm down!
But now thinking about it, do you @GravityCat or anyone else have an answer (a more elaborate one) for the latter post?
Sigh...
I'm just going to explain as much as possible without giving away too much information on how things are going on in the background. Consider
this post to be the one to link if people continue to ask about issues regarding WaniMag.
Anyway without further adieu...
Around the first week of April of 2014, multiple teams started to get 'Cease&Desist' letters from WaniMag. The wording of the letters themselves were not your typical "Takedown, or we sue" letters, but more of a "Here's a
THREAT of legal action
IF you don't comply". These emails sent were pretty vague in general and relied on looking 'official' so that the smaller teams would simply comply in panic.
As of this post on April 19, 2014, the following teams ;
Are the
known teams to have either complied with the takedown (WaniMag turned nasty when confronted) or were simply insta-nuked by their hosting services when WaniMag contacted said hosts.
The reason WaniMag has started issuing takedowns requests has seen plenty of speculation, with the common consensus being that WaniMag finally has considered the North American market a possible legitimate market instead of some bastard child.
IF WaniMag is serious about publishing officially in the North American market, it would make sense for them to want to eliminate the teams that have translated their works. Why not kill off piracy now while possibly using their translations as a basis?
As for the "Y CANT I READ DES WORKS HURR DURR BLOCKED BY COUNTRY HALP PLS" posts...
Jacob wrote...
Please remove all artwork and links to filesharing sites for the following artists and titles
Xeros, Kairakuten and all other titles by Wanimagazine, Distance, Nakata Modem, Leopard, Doreporu, Yoshiura Kazuya, Hiryuu Ran, TakayaKi, Akino Sora, Homunculus, Aoi Nagisa, Ishi kei, Hamao and any other artists represented by, or working for Wanimagazine.
Anything listed by Jacob is part of the (possibly temporary) takedown. Read this fucking list and understand
WHY this is happening. People spouting nonsense like "
IGNOR DEM HURRDURR, GIVE FINGER AND KEEP IT UP PLS" or "
ZOMG HURRDURR WARE ARE ANSERS?" have no idea that if Jacob did keep it up, Fakku! would be
gone.
As far as I know it, this takedown is site wide (not country specific) and impossible to get around. There is no confirmation (nor do I
want to make any) that browser extensions, proxies or VPNs will allow you to skirt this ban.
Gravity cat wrote...
As for when they'll get unblocked or some kind of solution to the problem, all we can do is sit tight and wait for news.
There's your news.
*mic drop*
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I'll try to keep this post updated whenever any news comes out, as well as contact Jacob to see if I can get this post stickied.
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