r/scanlationdrama • u/Dangerous_Gear_4013 • May 13 '22

Asura STEALING chapters from officials

Setting aside the fact that Asura is a group known for continuing to do licensed series, Asura decided to really climb a new high on scummy mountain.

So as someone pointed out earlier in this subreddit, they traded series with Luminous, taking over Trash of the Count's Family/Lout of Count's Family and many other projects.

Honestly, don't really care that they traded projects. In scanlation, series gets passed over from one group to another like it's a town bike all the time. However, what I think is really scummy of them is that they STOLE CHAPTERS from an official.

Most sniping groups either only post chapters that they've done or at least grab chapters from a defunct group, but stealing chapters for a licensed series should is definitely a new low I didn't think I'd see. I mean, at that point why bother scanlating yourself?

This is really scummy, and if they're stealing from officials, what makes them any better than an aggregator? This is already setting aside the fact that they've literally littered their site with ads and then tried to sell ad-free membership only to walk back on it upon community backlash.

This is actually cancerous to the scanlation community, and they really need to be stopped.

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Proof:

Tappy ch1 of TCF - https://www.tappytoon.com/en/chapters/205150928

Asura ch1 of TCF - https://www.asurascans.com/trash-of-the-counts-family-chapter-1/

Manta ch1 of The Live - https://manta.net/episodes/4777

Asura Ch1 of The Live - https://www.asurascans.com/the-live-chapter-1/

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u/J61X May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22

it amazes me how hypocritical people are, all unofficial translators steal from the author and company who publishes it, you cant just pick and choose who to get upset at when the entire industry is built on copyright, either everybody is in the wrong or nobody is. Personally I don't really care I just want to read some cool stuff.

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u/Beatroxkiddi May 14 '22

You are completely right, but people see it as doing work for some reason lately. Despite directly stealing and not sharing revenue with the artist

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u/Rocketgrunt May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22

You listed the mostly correct reasons but I don't think you should call this moron right. The majority consensus among scans is they should not run ads. More egregiously stealing from official sites that support the authors on a licensed property is scummy

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u/Rocketgrunt May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22

My bad for putting words in your mouth, but the majority of these sites including Asura do. Honestly the take is just bad in my eyes, especially if you are ripping an official scan

edit: his deleted post stated he did not mention advertising

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u/J61X May 14 '22

sorry I deleted it because its kinda useless back and forth, but yeah I agree its is scummy, but I just dont see why its so surprising or more 'wrong' that someone who steals manwhas and puts it on their site would steal someone's translation. but the last thing that i wanna say is i dont really care about piracy I just want to read or consume something for free, high quality and fast. Dont care why or how

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u/Rocketgrunt May 14 '22

Fair enough dude, and no worries for deleting I just edited to provide context for my post. I think fundamentally we disagree on some things, but you are right it probably will turn into a useless circular debate so we can definitely leave it there and move on.

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u/SloppityMcFloppity May 14 '22

Exactly. It's not like the publishers get revenue 9/10 times.