People over at the J Novel Club are knock off Yakuza

DTTA

Yeah. I mean, I appreciate fan translators who get things out there that isn't being translated. I would never have read DXD or Date a Live, two shockingly good series in spite of strong ecchi content, without fan translators. But they don't have any sort of inherent right to translate because they got there first, and they are not being bullied for telling them to stop if it goes official (for LN) or suggesting it if the WN is very similar to the LN.

NeoAnkara

If fan translator can have good cooperative relationship with licensor it would be better. Like being integrated as part of the project.

DTTA

Can, yeah. But it depends, really. Warnis is an exception in that his translations, even before J-Novel's editing passes, were quite high quality. A lot of translations (as thankful as I am for them) would need so much editing you might as well translate anew.

AratashiKun

Am I actually going to take this seriously? No, because in fact, I am smirking at everything that has been accused about J-Novel Club within the statements the following "human" has stated.

Indekkusu

@village-idiot said in People over at the J Novel Club are knock off Yakuza:

Just FYI that IIRC the only series Yen Press has actually issued DMCAs for is Danmachi. All other DMCAs including the great Xmass Massacre were issued by Kadokawa themselves.

They were sent by MarkMonitor on behalf of Hachette Book Group, anyone can report piracy to them via a form on their website.

Eric Kancso

@jnovelaremonsters i agree with this. I cant read alot of light novels because they asked the fan translater to take down there work. The point for a fan translater iz for the fans not for the profit unlike these guys who want the money just to translate.

Rahul Balaggan

@eric-kancso so what you saying is as long as you get get to read, it doesn’t matter if authors and publishers are fairly compensated for their work?

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ImIlyaz

@eric-kancso but now you're only thinking about yourself. For one second, stop thinking about yourself and realise how many people and how much time is invested in just creating one single volume.

It would be understandable if the fan translators created their own work and then gave them out to the public for free or if they translated work without any copyright.

But that's not the case now. Imagine what would happen if everyone started reading the Light novels for free. Without a doubt these light novels you love so much would cease to exist! Besides, J-Novel club isn't even demanding a fortune of money.

Now whether or notJ-Novel asked the translators to take down the work, I'm keeping myself out of that.

Paul Nebeling

Ok. I'm a firm believer in supporting the official release. Unfortunately, everyone doesn't have the ability to read Japanese. Now, if someone wants to put up their translation of an unlicensed work, I'm a bit more understanding than if there are fan translations of licensed works. The latter is wrong.

Drone205

@eric-kancso Oh No! You can only read the Light Novels JNC have Licenced on JNC and not off of some, Mafia/Yakuza/Pirate Site that asks for "donations" that goes nowhere and risk shady ads that may put a virus on your computer cuz they don't care about you. I am sure there are Translators that genuinely do care and that is why they will take down their translations of series that been licenced because they actually care. Also, I just re-read your comment cuz there was one thing that stuck with me, You said You cant read a lot of LN now cuz of the licences. This tells me that you are either lying or don't support the legal industry. There is so much LN out there that you must be lying so you can push your illegal agenda. I have 0 tolerance for stupidity and an underhanded political agenda. If you are going to be pro Piracy then stand tall and state it, do not use underhanded methods. I just can not respect you if you have no conviction.