branchandroot: oak against sky (Default)
Branch ([personal profile] branchandroot) wrote in [personal profile] opusculus 2010-06-15 04:19 pm (UTC)

This! All of this!

The prices are absolutely ridiculous for the product they provide, and if that's an inherent contradiction of the industry, if their overhead really does cost that much to produce such a crappy end-product... well maybe the industry needs to realize that, yeah, this isn't going to work. If it's genuinely not possible to economically bring a decent product to the customers, then bugger off and go out of business already! And we'll get along with our crappy /free/ translations like we always have!

The lag is what kills it most, I think. No one is going to wait years, dangling on whatever cliff was hanging when the C&D went out. It just isn't going to happen. I have a hard time understanding how anyone could possibly imagine, for one instant, that it would, or that this is a thing they are justified in demanding.

And I really do agree about the parasitism of watching the scanlators for the next big thing. And if they successfully crack down on the distribution of scans, and don't have that anymore? Yen/Hatchett are going to regret their current actions in the long run, I can't help thinking. (And is it just me, or does anyone else think naming it Yen press is either someone's wishful thinking showing or a desperately bad pun?)

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