Micah wrote...
Does anyone else consider this unethical?
Fakku has never been a legit website. It's a site that distributes other people's works without compensation or authorization, and makes money from ads. I can live with that. Fair or not, that's how a lot of the internet works.
But then seeing a company involved in licensing works partner with Fakku and take advantage of its illegitimate activities is appallingly opportunistic. Not only that, but it makes the commercial side of Fakku all the more glaring. I don't like it.
Fakku has just entered the imperialistic state of being. The fact that they offer hosting to so many smaller groups is also a case in point.
While at first a site by fans for fans, it has increasingly become an enterprise dealing in wrongly appropriated goods seeking to blow other, similar sites out of the market to establish a monopoly. This is, as Lenin has sufficiently shown in
Imperialism, a defining aspect of capitalism in its final stages and thus to be refuted if we don't want to be spoonfed what admins and advertisers deem "acceptable" (similar to what Gramsci coined "cultural hegemony").
Certainly there are other sites that are worse, but that changes nothing of the sort.
The answer can only be to jump ship and seek out raw distribution sites and translator blogs if we don't want to become mindless slaves to what others think is good for us, which in itself only serves their own selfish purposes.