FAKKU – 2014 hypocrite award winner.
Nov. 22nd, 2014 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiggy007This is actually an old news (about 5 months ago), FAKKU a hentai subscription website has turned into a publishing house for uncensored hentai books with Wani magazine.
I knew the existence of FAKKU only by name before, little that I know they are a bunch of hypocrite people.
A little summary about what happen:
FAKKU is a website that collects scanlated hentai from various groups/individual scanlator put them in their site and provide download link for the materials. They just like any other money profiting manga readers out there but worst since not only they earn money by traffic or ads they also ask for subscription fee in order to download from their site. Of course free download is allow with limitation.
According to compiled source, Wani magazine started handing out C&D to websites that hosted their material and their target are sadpanda and FAKKU. FAKKU took this opportunity to make a deal with Wani and became publisher for Wani english books. Well this is not the first time we see illegal money profiting site take turn and become legit i.e Crunchyroll. But unlike Crunchyroll which purge all illegal material upon becoming legit FAKKU still has one foot in the grey area. Beside the C&D-ed works (a.k.a Wani magazine stuff) other scanlated stuff on the website remain. They also will be handing out their very own C&D to other website that hosting their stuff.
"Like I said, takedowns would only be sent to sites that put content behind a PAYWALL. Doujin-Moe is an example of this. Takedowns would only apply to content that we actually release." - Jacob
Conspiracy theory: sadpanda fans claimed that FAKKU was behind the C&D in the first place but Jacob (owner of FAKKU) denied.
http://www.jcafe24.net/index.php?topic=43935.0
https://forums.e-hentai.org/index.php?showtopic=167500&st=0
I personally I find CR business model is rather shady. They keeps on saying support CR, support the artist but it looks like they keep most of the profit to themselves. Beside they were once earning profit from subbed anime/drama. Some article for you to decide whether to support or not to support CR but in the end they did went fully legit.
Honestly forget about their shady bussiness, I dislike CR lack of quality and hide behind the word "stimulcast". Stimulcast is not an excuse to release shitty content with wrong translation and bad editing, if one or two days late means better quality i'm sure people don't mind the wait. Then again CR never care about quality, their focus is to expanding their anime/manga deal.
FAKKU on the other hand make profit both illegally and legally, they still seeping money from the subscribtion fee while selling their very own licensed books (and other goods). How much money they make from free scanlation? Enough for them to sustain the site, bought licenses for books and went to Japan to negotiate deal with Wani magazine.
Unrelated news:
DMP most recent kickstarter which asked over half a million dollar to publish 31 vols of Tezuka's manga failed and only able to get ~7% of the minimum pledge due to DMP overly ambitious, poorly planned and greedy approach. Some of the money asked was to cover the cost of CEO travelling to Japan negotiating deal to license entire Tezuka library for the past 7 years *sigh.
edit: http://comicsworthreading.com/2014/11/22/digital-manga-tezuka-kickstarter-fails-miserably/
Little by little my faith in the industry get stripped everytime i read this kind of news.
I knew the existence of FAKKU only by name before, little that I know they are a bunch of hypocrite people.
A little summary about what happen:
FAKKU is a website that collects scanlated hentai from various groups/individual scanlator put them in their site and provide download link for the materials. They just like any other money profiting manga readers out there but worst since not only they earn money by traffic or ads they also ask for subscription fee in order to download from their site. Of course free download is allow with limitation.
According to compiled source, Wani magazine started handing out C&D to websites that hosted their material and their target are sadpanda and FAKKU. FAKKU took this opportunity to make a deal with Wani and became publisher for Wani english books. Well this is not the first time we see illegal money profiting site take turn and become legit i.e Crunchyroll. But unlike Crunchyroll which purge all illegal material upon becoming legit FAKKU still has one foot in the grey area. Beside the C&D-ed works (a.k.a Wani magazine stuff) other scanlated stuff on the website remain. They also will be handing out their very own C&D to other website that hosting their stuff.
"Like I said, takedowns would only be sent to sites that put content behind a PAYWALL. Doujin-Moe is an example of this. Takedowns would only apply to content that we actually release." - Jacob
Conspiracy theory: sadpanda fans claimed that FAKKU was behind the C&D in the first place but Jacob (owner of FAKKU) denied.
http://www.jcafe24.net/index.php?topic=43935.0
https://forums.e-hentai.org/index.php?showtopic=167500&st=0
I personally I find CR business model is rather shady. They keeps on saying support CR, support the artist but it looks like they keep most of the profit to themselves. Beside they were once earning profit from subbed anime/drama. Some article for you to decide whether to support or not to support CR but in the end they did went fully legit.
Honestly forget about their shady bussiness, I dislike CR lack of quality and hide behind the word "stimulcast". Stimulcast is not an excuse to release shitty content with wrong translation and bad editing, if one or two days late means better quality i'm sure people don't mind the wait. Then again CR never care about quality, their focus is to expanding their anime/manga deal.
FAKKU on the other hand make profit both illegally and legally, they still seeping money from the subscribtion fee while selling their very own licensed books (and other goods). How much money they make from free scanlation? Enough for them to sustain the site, bought licenses for books and went to Japan to negotiate deal with Wani magazine.
Unrelated news:
DMP most recent kickstarter which asked over half a million dollar to publish 31 vols of Tezuka's manga failed and only able to get ~7% of the minimum pledge due to DMP overly ambitious, poorly planned and greedy approach. Some of the money asked was to cover the cost of CEO travelling to Japan negotiating deal to license entire Tezuka library for the past 7 years *sigh.
edit: http://comicsworthreading.com/2014/11/22/digital-manga-tezuka-kickstarter-fails-miserably/
Little by little my faith in the industry get stripped everytime i read this kind of news.
