R.I.P -snipped-

[tommyt]

Earlier in the week, scanlation website -snip- announced it would be removing all scanlated content from its pages due to increasing disapproval from manga publishers. Upon visiting the site — you might have to clear your browser’s cookies first — the notice pictured above appears.

Here’s the relevant portion of the text:

“It pains me to announce that this is the last week of manga reading on -snip- (!!). Manga publishers have recently changed their stance on manga scanlations and made it clear that they no longer approve of it. We have decided to abide by their wishes, and remove all manga content (regardless of licensing status) from the site. The removal of content will happen gradually (so you can at least finish some of the outstanding reading you have), but we expect all content to be gone by early next week (RIP OM July 2010).”

-snip-’s closure is the latest development in a long-running rivalry between publishers and “scanlation aggregators” — sites that are classified by publishers as profit-based ventures that offer manga to their readers for free. Last month, a coalition of publishers — both American and Japanese — was formed to combat the rise of sites such as -snip- and Manga Fox.

While certain sites have resisted the pressure to an extent, the results of the coalition’s labour do appear to be taking effect.



Meanwhile, publishers are making their own strides into the realm of digital distribution, each in their own ways. While Tokyopop have teamed up with digital reading service, Zinio, to make digital copies of their books available for download, Digital Manga Publishing hope, instead, to work with scanlators and help them distribute their work legally.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Already posted, and is there still anything copyrighted available on the site? If so, you still shouldn't mention it by name.
http://gbatemp.net/t242153-popular-manga-s...s-shutting-down

 

[TheWingless]

That quote mentioned the name of another website that hasn't announced it's closure. A certain fox. In fact, I wonder if it's alright to still mention the title website since they still host manga until next week?