Piracy Wars: Do Scanlations of Manga With Poor Endings Really Hurt U.S. Sales of Said Manga Titles? For the longest time, I have lamented the fact that School Rumble was cut short in the U.S. As is typical of U.S. publishers, there’s this need (whether forced upon them by contracts with Japan or not) to
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Piracy Wars: Do Scanlations of Manga With Poor Endings Really Hurt U.S. Sales of Said Manga Titles?
March 15th, 2012 
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Piracy Wars: Viz vs. MangaStream
February 13th, 2012 AstroNerdBoy Piracy Wars: Viz vs. MangaStream So, I was meandering through Twitter when I saw some buzz over a scanlation group named MangaStream being forced to stop scanlating Viz-licensed titles. Naturally, there were thoughts all over on the subject, so I thought I’d go and see what MangaStream said. Here it is. Dear MangaStream supporter, It’s
Piracy Wars: Fractale — Defeat Piracy By Removing Legal Streaming!
January 21st, 2011 AstroNerdBoy Piracy Wars: Fractale — Defeat Piracy By Removing Legal Streaming! Fractale. I’d heard of this anime but to be honest, I just wasn’t that gripped by what I read and since I already have a ton of anime I need to watch, I gave this new show for the Winter 2011 season a pass. However,
Piracy Wars: The Customer is Wrong! (or "How Dare You Want Something Other Than What We Graciously Give You?")
June 14th, 2010 AstroNerdBoy Piracy Wars: The Customer is Wrong! (or “How Dare You Want Something Other Than What We Graciously Give You?”) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. –George Santayana This quote has been on my mind of late. It seems that folks in the anime and manga business cannot remember the failures
Piracy Wars: Welcome to Freemium! Anime and Manga For Free
January 25th, 2010 AstroNerdBoy Piracy Wars: Welcome to Freemium! Anime and Manga For Free I read Author’s Ani-Note blog regularly and in a recent post, he brought to my attention a post by Robert from Robert’s Anime Corner Blog (he’s also the owner of Roberts Corner Anime Store) in which Robert R1 companies and their current online-digital strategies when
