OneManga shutting down

[WengFook]

This means that sometimes
the wider precepts of the social contract and actual law come into
conflict. It's a complex situation when that happens and there are no
simple answer to such a problem. That's why they are dillemmas. The
example you give of food aid in a disaster is spurious, however. Almost
no social contract maintains we must protect someone's profits,
especially in a case where lives are at stake.

Yeah okay I'll give that it was a pretty thin example but if this isn't about protecting someone's profits then where is the conflict?

Nope. Sorry. There were plenty of anime fansubs
for, like twenty years before the big anima boom. The big anime boom
happened because of the success of Pokemon and Dragonball Z, which
proved to North America media companies that imported Japanese cartoons
could be massive money machines. This lead to more anime on TV, which
lead to more exposure, which lead to more anime being brought over and
so on and so forth.

Thats cool but I doubt that the industry today sprung forth solely on the backs of two titles just like that. In any case I was trying to point out that without fansubs, a portion of the market would never have existed in the first place.

Yeah, I really doubt this would happen. Your railing against a hypothetical worst case that isn't going to happen, ever.

Which proves that I never studied economics or business.

Libaries are part of the current social
contract. It's basically like me lending my copy of Final Fantasy X to
Ayiekie (which I just did). It's my copy, I can do what i want with the
copy (even resell it). I can't. however, COPY it (thus Copyright).
Similarly a Library has a copy (maybe multiple copies) of a book. They
can lend those copies. They can't copy them however.

But the end result is the same isn't it? Hundreds of people would have read the book without ever paying the original creators a single cent for their work. And if libraries paid the original creators to host a copy of their book online for the public to read then is it any different from what a site like onemanga was doing?
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