Especially with Japanese Mangas, I can understand the appeal of piracy. Most of them officially never see the world outside Japan, so they are very hard to obtain for international readers. Which are a big part of the fandom, though.
So (apart from the stupidity of the tale that every copy would have brought 100% of the sales price if there was no piracy) the losses are primarily due to simply not selling their products on markets that are showing demand.
Cypher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The assumption that pirates would pay rather than simply consuming other media is absurd.
These loss numbers are pulled out of thin air with no reasoning behind them.
parpol@programming.dev 2 months ago
Addv4@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah. A lot of those sites are actually translating them, often from donations by the users. I doubt anyone is getting well paid on the unofficial sites, as when they translations a lot of people flock to those as they are often higher quality images as well.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hope I can say this without getting attacked by manga fans, but I can’t effort manga, they are way too expensive to me. If I pay more for a manga than for two books, while I read the book 20 times longer, it doesn’t feel like good investment to me. I know there’s a lot of time spend on creating nice art and I too spend a few seconds admiring a good page, but that’s about it. Anime is not much better, I don’t enjoy spending hundreds of Euro or a thousand, for a series I watch once or twice.