Since we had a thread about Tachiyomi removing extentions I thought this might also be relevant.

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Tachiyomi, under the guise of ‘legitimate’ open-source development, has been seriously infringing on the copyright of manhwas worldwide.

We have collected personal details of most individuals involved in this project and plan to proceed with strong legal and institutional response against over 100 forked GitHub pages.

For the official English versions of KakaoPage/Kakao Webtoon, please enjoy them on Tapas!

Be Official, Be Legal Readers.

Not sure how many contributors were involved in Tachiyomi itself but it looks like they’ll be aiming for any forked projects as well.

Time to break out GitHub’s developer defense fund?

  • ReluctantZen@feddit.nlEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Tapas

    Tapas sucks ass. I get constant errors, you don’t own what you buy with their shitty coins and it’s also ridiculously expensive. How about they improve their service and make their content properly available as ebooks or as a subscription service. I want to be as legal as possible, but not when the legal stuff hates their customers.

    • Cybersteel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Piracy always better in the end even with supposed better service. There has never been a storefront, be it movies, books, television shows, manga that can compete with piracy. It’s impossible to go against literally free.

      • ReluctantZen@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I disagree with that sentiment. If it’s free, but a hassle compared to the paid alternative, then piracy is most definitely not better for most people, unless actually don’t want to pay for anything. For example, for games, it’s much easier to use Steam or GOG than find cracks that may or may not work. For movies it’s much easier to use Netflix or simply buy the bluray than go look for an illegal streaming site that keeps changing its URL to evade shutdowns and is full of malicious ads. Same thing with music and Spotify and the likes.

        If the legal service offers a good product, most people are willing to pay for it. There will always be some that will never do that, but most will because when the legal service is good, piracy can be a big hassle.