In article <10k4kp397dcepaa@corp.supernews.com>,
 nepacific <user@host.net> wrote:

> Permissible redundancy, in my opinion. It's explanatory.
> 
> Some of those sites take their "scanlations" down when the mangas are 
> licensed for translation. At least that's something. Although I think 
> it's still copyright infringement, there's an argument to be made that 
> this form of piracy may actually develop the market.

And I've read comments from Japanese artists who said they gave up 
releasing their anime to the US market because fan-sub were already 
available.

-- 
Rodney Webster
http://knot.mine.nu/