The Shrine

So on all the sites I get manga from (in China) there's always this prominent display like: "We totally respect copyright, if you feel this violates your rights contact us and we'll remove it". Although that's about one step dumber than 'this is for sample purposes only delete after 24 hours' I figure whatever floats your boat is fine as long as I get my stuff.

Now recently I'm seeing a new notice: "We've detected this activity is illegal in your region so we can't give you this stuff."

Now as weak as copyright law is in China, I'm pretty sure if it's illegal to do this in USA it's still illegal in China. It's just that China usually don't care about enforcing this stuff. Certainly it's hard to imagine pirating being illegal in USA but somehow okay in Japan (the guys who own the actual IP rights). I assume the Chinese government got forced into showing they actualy do something about piracy since quite a few sites I go to went down, and we're talking about the Chinese government here so if they want to bust you, they'll just bust you anyway even if you're right, not to mention in this case you're obviously in the wrong.

At any rate, it seems like the few sites that are still up are getting really hammered in terms of traffic.

Private trackers, dude. Private trackers. That and seedboxes.

I don't think they're in danger of being caught and it's certainly pretty trivial to find replacement (I found one on the .cc domain, interestingly enough).

It's just pretty hilarious that these sites are clearly still providing the illegal stuff to guys in China, and they actually want you to believe that they acknowledge copyrights.