godsend wrote...
What do you guys think the odds are that practically
NONE of those works would have ever been translated into english professionally?
I'm betting those are pretty good odds. SO WHY THE HATE?
I wonder if the notice they got was due to Distance. He's an author currently working for Wani who got a couple books published in the west (B-Chiku and HHH, namely). If they were planning on porting Lacrosse Club though, shouldn't have they gone after the uploads first, shouldn't they have stopped tllp much earlier, before they got to the end of the translation?
It honestly makes no sense to me. I could name
several teams that have done the same exact things as tllp did, for much longer than tllp did, some still go, yet only tllp goes down.
Sites like ehentai get google takedown requests very often and get ignored, doujin-moe is still alive, other sites that are in exclusively for the money are alive and well. I'm willing to bet there's more to it, an artist can threaten to sue a team, or request for uploads of his works to be banned from the internet, but to shut down a team? Sounds a bit extreme, teams in case of fantranslations get a "cease and desist" notice.