A new way to monetize piracy (anime)

[Jagos]

Linkage (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-04-11/j-comi/purify-file-shared-manga-with-authorized-ads)

Manga creator Ken Akamatsu (Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Love Hina) proposed on Monday that his manga distribution site J-Comi can "purify" or legalize unauthorized manga scans on file-sharing networks by adding advertising to the existing files — with the creators' permission. The beta version of J-Comi already serves legal, free downloads of manga, but the new proposal will deal directly with illegally distributed files of manga. Akamatsu presented his plan under the title "Illegal (Out-of-Print) Manga File Purification Project."

Ken, I would love to check out love hina, but I'm a guy and I'll give you mad props for actually doing this project.

From there, he is working to purify old out of print stuff and release it into the wilds with the permission of the original manga creator. In all, this sounds like an awesome win-win.

[Fifthfiend]

Remember not long ago when the manga publishers or whoever did that huge effort to shut down the major mangasharing sites

And hardly any time later there were a bunch of other manga sharing sites sharing all the mangas that used to be shared at the mangasharing sites that got shut down?

Basically what I'm saying is if someone can put together a legitimized option that ensures some kind of actual payout to the creators, for the sort of service that basically is being provided currently by pirates with all the money going to whichever web site, then that is probably as Jagos says a win-win, and I would say that it actually would have been a good move for the manga publisher people to have had something in this rough ballpark planned before they did that last big shutdown.