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Fan translators asking for payment for latest chapters for comics, webtoons, manhwa, manga... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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There is a trend currently were fan translaters are paywalling the latest chapters, with poor translations. What are your thoughts on this? I don't mind asking for donations, but asking for money with mediocre translation is scammy.

Examples: https://asuracomic.net/ https://madarascans.com/ https://nightsup.net/ https://casacomic.com/

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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Rightsholders have to compete with pirates, but the inverse is true too.

Pirates typically win on price, but if they deliver a sub-par product, or make it more inconvenient to access, then it makes sense to go through official channels instead.