Bibliophile Stalker: Essay: Fandom and Piracy (Part 2)

What's interesting with anime/manga fansubbing and scanlating is that through the ease of communication and management via the Internet, this form of piracy became industrially efficient. ... they encourage you to support and purchase the product) and those that are clearly illegal as their distribution competes with existing rights holders (and because of the translation and copyright delay, the pirates publish their material sooner) and whose fanbase gets angry with ...