A new way to monetize piracy (anime)

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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.