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Sony DMCA Notice Nukes 200 Aniyomi Extensions as Tachiyomi Fork Feels Heat * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't get what the manga publishers aim to achieve from this. I've bought official translation paper versions of like 20 manga series that I've read through scanlations. If I didn't read the scanlations, there is no way I would ever buy them let alone read them.

There is absolutely no fucking way I would pay per episode like publishers want digitally. They put the dumbest restrictions like I can't screenshot, I'll need to pay if I want to access it and all that crap. That's absolutely not happening. People don't start reading new manga that way.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's probably old farts making decisions based what they learned from "the good old days". For many Japanese, that was the 80s. This means over-attachment to analog methods and physical objects. It's cultural inertia that won't phase out quickly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That said, I love having the physical paper tankobon or physical figurines! I've even bought blu-ray boxes of anime series I love, so that u can actually have/own my own copy of the episodes and support the creators as well!

It may sound strange coming from a programmer and gamer, but streaming or even buying digitally just isn't the same thing.

Online friends of mine from Japan often feel the same way, too. I really get the feeling that, at least among Japanese otakus, physical copies and merch is still something they value a great deal more than Western otakus/fans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Absolutely. I love paper books and physical collectibles. The problem I was talking about is being forced to the old methods instead of using modern technologies, like only being able to send an application form by physical mail instead of online.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

One head off, two new coming. And if we have to send USB Sticks with the stuff! Id rather get Carrier pigeons than stop pirating!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Someone already worked out how to do it: IP over Avian Carriers. The ping time is terrible though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

High latency, low bandwidth and package loss but at least it works.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Where do you see low bandwidth? Maybe over long distances but if I can give a pigeon a 1TiB USB stick and send it to the next city I bet it will be faster than uploading the data. If it arrives that is

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Damn you're right. But still, optic fiber would be faster in most situations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

People seem to always forget, that pigeons only know their way home. So you still need to get your pigeon(s) to the person sending the data with the pigeon back to you, in which case you can just pickup the data now that you're there yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean you have to have a monthly pidgin exchange (maybe tie the pidgins to the last pidgin to reset)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

At that point, why waste time with the pigeons? You have to meet anyway, just make it a data exchange instead and skip the pigeons completely. That also eliminates risk of packet loss with pigeons never arriving.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When you can meet once every half year why would you meet monthly or once a week? Also, you can secretly tell the meeting point over pidgin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

In a world with safe P2P via VPN and I2P, why would you use a pigeon? Then you never have to leave your house...or perhaps more importantly, you won't need to feed potentially hundreds of carrier pigeons and clean their cages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Italy for example tries to ban VPN...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's completely unenforceable though...

But even if it was, just use direct encrypted file transfers. Your ISP can't detect anything illegal there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

There was talk about implementing large scale package inspection.

Fuck that im going with the birds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's Cubano StreetNet and SneakerNet all over again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Hail hydra.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At least they didn't hit keiyoushi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's keiyoushi? Can you use it for anime like Aniyomi.

When Tachiyomi went down I migrate to Aniyomi and have since them enjoyed the anime feature. It's still working, but it'll be such a pain to migrate all my anime and manga library.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Extension library for Tachiyomi forks. No idea if it works with Aniyomi.

https://github.com/keiyoushi/extensions

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

@Protoman64 Just a test message from friendica please don't mind 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I didn't knew Friendica could interact with Lemmy. For whatever reason Lemmy and Kbin had been in their own corner of the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

@Protoman64 Kbin has a separate interface for microblogging and groups, that's why it's not that obvious. For Lemmy, well, there's no type of blogging to begin with.

Friendica really shines in this regard, as it has the ability to interact with both groups and regular people in the same feed, while the posts are also clearly marked as such. 😁

@testing777

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No worries! Also from Friendica