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Another Pirate Site Goes Down



The pirate website manga.com is doing an impressive thing and abiding by publishers wishes by removing all scanned material from it’s website.  They’ve posted a notice stating:

this is the last week of manga reading on One Manga (!!). Manga publishers have recently changed their stance on manga scanlations and made it clear that they no longer approve of it. We have decided to abide by their wishes, and remove all manga content (regardless of licensing status) from the site. The removal of content will happen gradually (so you can at least finish some of the outstanding reading you have), but we expect all content to be gone by early next week (RIP OM July 2010).

The website had an estimated 4.2 million unique visitors per month and a mammoth 1.1 billion page views per month.  Recently a multi-national coalition formed to combat the rampant illegal sharing of comic books online.

This crack down also comes when Manga sales have cooled.

By Brett

Brett is a political consultant who resides in Arlington, VA. He grew up in Cleveland, OH and Buffalo, NY and attended the University at Buffalo, majoring in Political Science.
Since then Brett has made his mark on politics working in various positions such as a Legislative Staffer for the Erie County Legislature, Special Assistant for Senator John Kerry, as the Database Administrator for Forward Together PAC, Database Director for Chris Dodd for President, and Internet/Database Director for Virginians for Brian Moran, and Email Deliverability Czar for Salsa Labs and NGP VAN.
In 2007 Brett formed 5B Consulting providing his expertise on database solutions, new media and email strategy.
He's a long time geek, reading comics since he was a child and learning to spell his name on an Atari 800. When he's not working, he's reading comics, playing video games and relaxing with a nice cup of tea.
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One reply on “Another Pirate Site Goes Down”

The thing with one Manga is that they have Manga that you can’nt get in the States and you are also able to read Manga like Naruto the day it comes out. There is’nt a source here that allows you to do that, I would pay for the Manga if I could walk into a comic book store and buy it the day it came out but you can’t. So I think this is BS, until someone can give me a way to stay up to date with my favorite manga then they will not get my money. Oh and I’m not going to wait a year till the anime catches up either! BS!

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