New Testament and DCMA

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Why?

>Unlicensed projects too.

What the fuck? And B-T are just going to give in just like that?

Who gave the DMCA? If it's Dengeki themselves I won't mind, but if it's Yen Press or some other Murrican publisher then they can fuck right off, it's just like FAGimation's Lance Heiskell back in 2008.

>>134893396
DMCA is a very un-American process. Anyone can issue a DMCA request, and you have to take it down immediately. You then can protest and try and get it reinstated, but the legal burden is on the accused here, which is the complete opposite of how things normally work.

>>134893396
Kadokawa

>>134892841
NT is pretty shit and i don't even care much about the series anymore anyways.

Victims
>DAL, Itsuten, Haganai, DYD, Index, Log Horizon, Mondaiji. Nobuna, Arisu, Nareru SE, Kuusen, Sakurasou, Shana, Slayers, Chaika, Ero-manga, Spice & Wolf, Baccano, Black Bullet, Accel World, Index, Oreimo and Papakiki
Also, a note from Big Boss

From the B-T facebook page

Alright guys, this one's a doozy:
Baka-Tsuki just got hit by a DMCA from Kadokawa. And this time, it's crippling,
Series affected by this are (all languages):
DAL, Itsuten, Haganai, DYD, Index, LH, Mondaiji. Nobuna, Arisu, Nareru SE, Kuusen, Sakurasou, Shana, Slayers, Chaika, Ero-manga, Spice & Wolf, Baccano, Black Bullet, Accel World, Index, Oreimo and Papakiki
Also, a note from Big Boss (tlg):
"Hey guys,
Looks like this time it's Kadokawa's turn to send DMCA, and it's a doozy. There are so many series listed that I think the jig is pretty much up. The server will need to be move from US if B-T wants to survive.
If this is the case I don't think I can continue to pay for the server anymore (as outright copyright infringement conflicts with my job). We will need to find a person to take over the operation. The server requirement shouldn't be that expensive. $20/month would suffice, I believe.
tlg"

Note from Ping:

The DMCA is from Kadokawa, just like how Campione was taken down the last time.

I can assure you that NT is not being taken down at this time though. The reason why only 2 side stories were taken down was because they were listed, and not the others.

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=5732800&postcount=175

>>134893545
>Shana
Well what is the fucking point?

>>134893545
>Shana
Didn't it end like forever ago?

>>134893545
a few things on there were taken down years ago. Looks like its really only affecting a couple of series

>>134893569
Did the translator for Campione ever say whether or not they were going to continue translating elsewhere?

>>134893658
This includes all languages.

>>134893705
Focusing on Blade Dance instead.

>>134893396
Kadokawa apparently.

>>134893775
>>134893506
Oh, okay then.

>>134893767
Bleh. I hope someone else picks it up.

>>134893554
>$20/month
That's cheap as fuck, what the hell?

Stop reading trash faggots.

>>134893554
So they're finally thinking about moving the server. I wonder if they'll bring back all the projects they've taken down, or if they'll just ignore requests from non rights holders like this, and continue to honor ones from publishers.

>>134894101
But trash faggots is my favorite novel.

>>134894118
Move to South America, they don't give a fuck about it.

>>134894101
Your "real books" are boring snorefest garbage, no thanks.

I'd rather read LNs since they are actually entertaining.

>>134894010
Well, text files don't need much bandwidth and storage space.

>>134893569
I wouldn't be surprised if this was just the start and more is on the way in the coming weeks.

>>134892841
anyone got DAL for download? its on my backlog on what to read and it would suck if they go through with it getting it taken down

>Blade Dance didn't get hit

Thank God.

>>134893569
Everything but NT? Well, I guess even Kadokawa know it will take a while for the west to reach to NT. No point in pissing off the fans by taking NT down now.

>>134894329
Was the last volume ever finished? I was putting off reading it till it was fully translated.

>>134892841
It's over.

Someone archive everything.

>>134894418
It was halfway.

Vol.12 got nuked moments ago.

Someone share the fucking links.

>>134894267
I get the feeling the only thing he reads are manga.

>>134894267
>I'd rather read LNs since they are actually entertaining

>I'm entertained by copy and paste shit multiple times

Either way stay mad faggot, your precious LN's will stop getting translated and maybe then you'll gradually get better taste.

>>134894618
fuck youre right its gone, I second this notion

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Thanks god for Godmeguca and some blogs, I hope the rest of LN get uploaded in this page.

>>134894329
epub or pdf?
In muh sekrit club are uploaded all the novels until 12.

>>134892841
>tfw your read all your trashy LN either in chink or nip anyway
Why haven't you started to learn a foreign language yet /a/?

>>134895066
Share Vol.12 please.

>>134894886
>Implying I'm not learning Japanese so I can watch anime, read manga and LN without needing any translation

Worth it to enjoy entertainment that is not boring snorefest shit like "real books". Help not being a condescending faggot of a human being who tell people to stop enjoying what they enjoy too.

>>134895066
pdf, i got TnY if anyone needs that

christmas is ruin again

>>134892841
i need the pdf of NT the latest one

i cant find it for shit

>>134893569
What side stories got taken down?

>>134892841
Good. LNs are fucking terrible.

>>134895141
>>134895154
There we go: http://www88.zippyshare.com/v/3e1PDgSJ/file.html

>>134895316
Less terrible than real books, though.

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>>134893493
Property rights are kind of like that anon. You cannot steal your neighbors lawn mower without first proving that it is in fact your law mower. Shit sucks I know.

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>>134895327
Thank you

>>134895327
Thank you. I would suck your dick.
No homo.

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>just paid for four licensed titles
god dammit

i hope someone steps in and picks up the server from this guy (he only only appears when his pants are about to be lit on fire anyway) bakareader too convienent

>>134894346
Index almost certainly covers NT.

>>134895327
Can you share vol 10 and 11?

>>134895478
Why not just steal it yourselves? Are you guys suddenly opposed to theft?

>>134895521
Sure:
http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/zTK2pZtv/file.html
http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/IksTPyFD/file.html

>>134892841
Isn't raildex stuff kill?

>>134895478
I hardly fucking mind if they're licensing the series for release in English, but they're not even going to do that with half of them, fuck everything.

First Campione and now this.

>>134895540
Baka-Tsuki is not just a content repository, but a place for translators to work.

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>>134895540
have you tried working with people like hayashi before?

>>134895480
No, the initial posts said the Index series was affected by this, to which they later clarified means only the side stories, which is part of the original's run. NT is still safe. It's not like they can keep the DMCA up for NT for, what, 10 years from now when NT 1 is finally out for the west.

>>134895570
Thanks anon!

If i get a seedbox on sweden will the company delete dcma'd files?

>>134895622
No, Swedens are magicians. They work by their own rules.

>>134894886
Cherrio old chap, you gave those knickerbockers what-for! Why, those little scamps just might turn towards the proper path of distinguished literature. This little inspiration gave me a hankering for my 53rd reread of Moby Dick; it reminds me of my good friend Richard that I have tea with on Sundays.

don't forget to put it up on MK and other places as a hold over. The more redundancies we have the better.

>>134895570
Do you have vol.13?

What will happend to the translations.

Seriously, we need some giant folder where we can store all of this. Wasn't there a torrent with plenty of translated a few months ago I think.

>>134892841
Good riddance.
You all act superior, but you are all just pirates. Take down was justified.

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>>134896832
Fuck you moralfag. Copying is not theft. Only in our sick and corrupted society do people equivocate them.

This >>134896453 is bullshit, yes?

>>134896832
>Moralfag on /a/
Seriously? Don't tell me you buy all the manga/LN you read? Tell me this is just a bait.

>>134896945
its not even copying.

>>134896987
Probably. Mondaijitachi translator works on his blog and his edited TL is put there. Some translations from ND are put on BT too. Antimagic TL continued on his blog, Setsuna does the same and his work is copied there too.

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>>134897020
>2015
>not supporting a niche industry that could easily cease to exist without fan support (that means no waifus, no cute girls, and no cool shows.)

Really?

>>134896987
Not really. Fansubs are illegal by nature. It's just no one actually goes after them since all it does is just hurt their fanbase.

>>134895588
>I hardly fucking mind if they're licensing the series for release in English

I do, because sometimes it happens to series that have like 6+ volumes translated and then it takes like 3 fucking years for them to officially get that far again.

>>134897096
Piracy and fan support will never die. Pretty much all the anons from /a/ are pirates.

>>134896987
Why would it be? It's not wrong to restrict people in your group to where they can do things. Would it be okay for someone working at one company to spill company secrets at home? It wouldn't, fuck off.

>>134897096
These are all-language takedowns for stuff Japan refuses to sell us. They're not even using the "this is costing us money" argument any more.

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>>134897096
We do that as well. Have you seen all the merch we buy? That's where the real money is.

>>134896457
Seconding this.

Can't find anything on internet.

>>134897386
But what about the English speaking Japanese people who will read the translations!?

>direct downloads
>not torrents
What did they expect?

So I figure this is the thread to ask: is there a Light Novel repository where I can download RAWS from? Like Madokami or MT, but for LNs instead of manga. Or do I have to go hunting for torrents?

>>134897472
Hahaha
>>134897531
Baka tsuki works like a wiki. Some illiterate person who barely knows english does the initial translation and then people will constantly edit it. So there's not really a final release that could be put in a torrent.

>>134897216
>poorfag talk

>>134898048
I have purchased quite a bit of stuff (including an entire copy of Index Old Testatment) but it still doesn't cover 1% of the cost of everything I've watched or read.

>>134898136
>an entire copy of Index old testament

Nigga what?

>>134898305
I'll now disappoint you completely by informing you that it was the digital edition being advertised for the Kamachi 10th Anniversary thing, so there is no glorious row of novels lined up on my shelves.

I rarely read the physical books I do have so it might be better in the long run.

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>>134898391
>buying digital books

God what a retard

funny....NT was not hit, only 2 side stories, post is wrong

>>134898512
I'm ```supporting the industry'''

>>134898048
It doesn't even have to do with being poor and wanting shit for free.
If official translations were released with the same speed and quality as fan works were I wouldn't mind paying a few shekels at my local b&n. Hell I'd be happy to, it would be easier to build a collection and I much prefer reading physical books to digital ones. The same goes for anime, if late-night shit was translated and provided with the same quality as certain subgroups every week, I wouldn't be against subscribing to something.

But fuck streaming quality, fuck waiting years for a shoddy official translation. I want it now and I want it to look good. The free part is just a bonus.

>>134898565
It's cool.

>>134899250
>If official translations were released with the same speed and quality as fan works were I wouldn't mind paying a few shekels at my local b&n

They won't go fast because they don't want to oversaturate the market the way manga and anime localizers have done before - which bankrupted several of them. So they pick a modest range of popular series - enough to spread out the risk, but not too many because licensing costs - and trickle out three volumes a year for each.

>>134900148
Didn't they know that not all people are patient? Most picks by YP are shit that fizzle out fame-wise after the anime, and everyone knows what happened between Viz and Shana.

>>134895570
Do you happen to have any of the Itsuten chapters after volume 4 in a zip archive anon? If not all of them I'm really just looking for Vol. 9 Prologue: The Hollering Doll.

nyaa is down
bakabt is down
hs is down
thepiratebay is down

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>>134892841
>Unlicensed projects too.

WHY FUCKING DO THIS?

I live in fucking Latin America. I don't speak japanese and unless I get licensed novels online paying a testicle for customs I won't ever get my hands on a copy.
Then why the hell do this?
It's not like their sales numbers are dropping for having fanmade translations. I would even bet that having fanmade translations can get them a lot more money because it can reach even more fans who'll then buy the novels when they get released.

Fuck man novels take ages to be licensed in english and even more time to be released. Same fucking thing happened to Mahouka, was taken down from BT when I was halfway through and now it's fucked up and can't find it anywhere on the internet..

Japanese publishers have their wallets full, light novels sell like hotcakes in Japan they dont fucking need to do this, much less for novels that aren't translated to english yet.

And the saddest part is that this bullshi is what has translators dropping projects frequently.
They're fucking doing it for free and get sued for it.

>>134901713
What is hilarious is that they take down translations for even stuff like the Turkish language and Japan has no interest in marketing to areas like that. Fuck the DMCA.

>>134898542
For now.
Did anyone prep links for those two? Those side stories are unlikely to ever be officially translated; it was enough suffering finding the raw text.

Hmm. A bunch of that is not popular enough to ever be worth licensing, so it can't be that.

Could it be because characters from a whole bunch of those are in this fighting game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJqDY8kj7YY and we're getting a port of it? And then it percolated through the massive media conglomerate network and anything tangentially related ended up on the enforcement list?

Also I'm pretty sure Arisu isn't even that popular in Japan and isn't in any game, so that might accidentally have revealed an upcoming anime.

>>134903424
Are you sure they just didn't pick everything that matched the intersection of (on Baka-Tsuki) and (owned by Kadokawa)?

All this spying built right into windows, google and internet backbone is going to eventually make encrypted darknets the only place of freedom left.

>>134895327
Do you happen to have volume 13? Was Volume 13 even translated?

>Index
>LH
>Shana
>Spice & Wolf
>Black Bullet
>Accel World
Hadn't these ALREADY been abandoned? What gives?

Anyone got a copy of the DCMA? I want to email Kadokawa about this take down and ask if they are planning to bring said novels to the west with english translations.

>>134896945
Based Stallman.

>DCMA
>pirate site fear DCMA
TOPKEK

>>134903889
Well yes.

Technically all of Index SS and S1 have been nuked. NT is a different story so it is safe due to a technicality.

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>targeting NT

as if we haven't been slapped in the face enough already

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DAIZ WILL DEFEND THIS

Just like other licensed stuff that got removed from BT, they'll be up on blogs.

>>134904082
If they take out NT as well any fan they had in the west will be either cut in half or gone completely. It's due to these translations that they even gained recognition outside Japan.

Unless they release english translations themselves they are going to kill themselves.


And no more happy samurai jew.

>>134903889
Other languages
In other words, irrelevant

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>yandex only has up to NT12

DMCA is boogeyman

>>134894618
I don't have the links, but I do have summaryanon's pastebin
http://pastebin.com/wJVu7VX6

>>134892841
>2015
>people still read NT
The series went to shit ages ago, and out of a mountain of shitty LNs it was the least bad one. I could not care less about any of that getting taken down.

>>134904176
js06 can request the translations back and he almost certainly will. The only matter that remains is of finding an alternative host (which, let's face it, almost employed /a/non can do given that it cost like ten cents to host BT).

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>mfw they go after horizon
IT ENDS NOW

>Blade dance, Vanadis and DxD still surviving.
>Index NT still up.
Well at least there's still ones that I cares still alive.
>fucking americunts ruining everything.

>>134904141
They're basically biting off the hand that feeds them. I'd like to see proper laws for fan translated or made stuff in my lifetime, cause most of the time it's good advertisement.

Why don't they just move the servers if it's 20$/month?
That's the cost of a fucking TS server, they can easily make that off of donations.

>>134904310
>We will need to find a person to take over the operation

So basically they need someone who doesn't give a shit about copyright to take over. Probably someone in a country that doesn't give a fuck.

>>134904399
I hope some chinese weeb do this.
I for once, welcome our chinese overlords.

Why not just ignore this shit? No one will sue you. It's not piratebay and
>other country trying to sue you
literally impossible

>>134894118

>still using american hosting

Guys what the fuck, shouldn't this be basic procedure at this point in time? Never fucking host anything on US or affiliates soil. Yes move the servers and keep going business as usual, it's not a hard decision and should have been done years ago, don't let community projects fucking die because some asshats buy (or don't buy) licensees to products that will never reach our shores otherwise.

>>134904434
The Chinese don't really care much about English translations though.

Probably an Eastern European or something would be best. Certain Latin American countries would be okay too.

>>134904434
China as the savior of our weeb hobbies, oh the irony

>>134904545
>chinese literally saving the chinese cartoons

>>134904488
>Why not just ignore this shit?
I think if a DMCA to a site fails it usually gets forward to the host.

Is there someone willing to host the server elsewhere? I have lots of money, just not the expertise.

>>134904251
Are you feeling happy or sad?

>>134900216
Viz's problem with Shana stemmed from censorship and no one knowing wtf a light novel was. Everyone knows about them now, so they aren't the risk they once were. It'd be nice if Shana got a second chance, as there's virtually zero knowledge outside of Japan on what happens in the novels they skipped for the anime. The wiki is practically empty.

>>134897096
>implying LN translations aren't supporting the industry via free propaganda

>>134897096
I buy all the light novels I read though. It's only one, but a better ratio than anything else.
Might start heavy object after the anime ends, but that will never be published here.

>>134901023
Need this desperately back in my life bump.

>>134904399
>>134904434
The Czech Republic, Eastern Europe doesn't seem to give a fuck about copyright.

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>>134904251
No western company will ever license Horizon. It would never get a fanbase sizeable enough to warrant translating those thousands upon thousands of pages.
How it even got a Korean licensed translation is beyond me.

I'm just afraid someone will try doing OnC for some reason.

I have the .pdf files of index from OT1 to NT13, can I host them on a dropbox account without risk?

>>134905719
Use something like pomf

>>134905643
But 90% of western books are thousands of pages

>>134905743
Why?
I want to be able to access them offline on mobile, that's why I wanted to use dropbox
I don't mind sharing them with anons as long as it doesn't get me in trouble

>>134905789
Well dropbox gets nuked once in a while, so there is that. Maybe make a torrent?

>>134905789
Please do.

>>134905759
Most of those have a bigger market and a lot of them don't even have the added cost of having to be translated into English.

>>134905828
>gets nuked
What do you mean?
Let's say I create a password protected account, host the pdf files and give you guys the password, wouldn't that be a good way? If I'm not advertising it I'm guessing they won't bother taking it down
I don't know shit about hosting and torrents so there's that too

>>134905862
Dropbox can still nuke shit if deemed a violation of copyright.

>>134905888
Fuck. What if it's for personal use and I don't give the password to anyone, keeping it to myself?

If you guys give me a good way to share the files without getting in trouble I'll do that and just use dropbox for myself, I really want that offline access

Sorry for the computer illiteracy.

>>134903900
http://pastebin.com/3ui5ZUz0

How are we going to read the upcoming volumes? Will we never get a translation of NT15+?

>>134904176
Looks like BT's fixed their pdf generator, I'll upload 13 and 14 now.

>>134906241
The generator doesn't include images, is there a pdf of NT14 with the cover and stuff anywhere?

>>134893493
As opposed to being sued immediately?

Suing Baka-Tsuki out of existence instead of taking them down one by one.

>>134906279
https://www.mediafire.com/?rn9s4gr6hrne99l

>>134906365
Thanks anon

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>>134892841

I will be ready this time.

>>134906207
js06 said he would continue if NT was removed from BT, but NT hasn't been removed from BT so no need to panic. yet

>>134906293
But BT are full of chinks. Why should they be afraid.

Japan knows sueing China doesn't work well and so does America.

>>134906659

Good old China. The land of fuck you and your copyrights.

>>134906693
Why is BT staff so fucking beta and cuckolded then?

>>134906779

I don't know honestly.

>>134906779
They're bakas desu,
They were told to move servers but didn't listen desu.

>>134906839
The chinks that sell pirated Hollywood movies and TV shows on public streets have more balls then BT staff.

I'm sure the Hollywood Copyright Cartel is thousands times more scary than a japanese publisher yet those chinks continue selling their lazily burned Hollywood movies.

>>134893545
>Spice and Wolf
Well, you can find all the 17 translated books anywhere, so it's not that bad. But still pretty bad.

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>actually reading anime in book form

>>134907019

Next thing you gonna tell me books are movies.

Daiz-sama why do you take all that I love away

What's a temporary filehosting site I can use to dump all my files right now? I have NT, OT, parody stories and side stories in both pdf and epub

>>134904082
But they're not? Did you even read the rest of the thread? The DMCA is for the SS that ran concurrent with the original Index. NT is still safe, because 'lol technicalities' and because it's a decade away before the west even gets to NT. At that point, either Index is finally over, or we're at Index: Revelations.

>>134907019
>reading anime in comic form
>watching books in anime form
>watching comics in anime form

>>134906693
The land of firewalls and censorship, anon. Anyone that believes the government wouldn't go through all of that information and delete/block it when they feel like it, are idiots. Hell, they probably inserted backdoors into the servers so they can spy on you when you're stupid enough to think China is a safe haven for this kind of stuff.

>>134892841
Updated Daiz checklist where?

>>134909218
They also put a scoring system for their citiziens. Like how good of a citizien you are.

http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=720999

This has the most updated PDFs of OT1-NT13 plus all the side stories.

The only thing it doesn't have is NT14

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>>134899250
>If official translations were released with the same speed and quality as fan works were

>Fan translations
>Quality

Hahahahahahaha, you're kidding right?

If anything I'm more pissed about Shana going down the toilet than Index. Problem with Shana is that not all volumes were translated, so basically the only legal way would be to buy the original Japanese, and unless you know Japanese then you're screwed.

>>134909349
Shana is fucking shit anyways.

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>>134909444
>Shana
>shit
>implying the characters are shit
>implying the music is shit

>>134907019
Welcome to the NHK LN > Anime.

>>134909321
Never understood this fan translation mentality. It's as if people just can't let go of the past. Official translations aren't bad. The biggest difference I've notice between the two are that fan translations tend to be more vulgar. I guess/a/ is just too edgy and underground for the mainstream, official translations, which are commonly ripped off anyways. Another bunch of whining faggots shedding tears over some cartoons.

>>134909613
It's more so that half these fags read through some machine tier translations and yet still shit on those done officially.

>>134909613
>Implying official translations are not blatantly ripping off fan translations.

Absolutely no reason to pay money to lazy ass publisher who are using other people's translations for free.

>>134909094
Oh so it's only about OT? Good
We'll still get the translations for NT15 and stuff then?

>>134909869
If Baka-Tsuki is still around when NT15 comes out.

>>134909886
Why wouldn't it be?

>>134909817
Oh yeah? Are Elvis and 2Pac hiding out somewhere subbing for CR while ripping them from fan subs? Do tell. Actually, hold on one second; let me grab my tinfoil fedora. Alright, I'm ready. Go.

Just to ask any links for Campione or Date A live?

>>134909613
I like official translations, they tend to be better than the fan ones, but my only problem is that they are too slow and I would prefer to be able to catch up to the series I want to read.

>>134909349
This, someone needs to retranslate Shana one day.

https://lumendatabase.org/notices/11615975
https://lumendatabase.org/notices/11615651

It's possible to obtain copy (backup) of the DB if someone is ballsy enough to host it

rizon

>>134904525
Brazil don't give a fuck, piracy is way of life around here.

>>134905939
You can use it for yourself, secret club has ot and nt, or use dropbox for yourself, anonfiles to share them for now and other anons may create a torrent for it

>>134909613
Official translations tend to be over-localized meme garbage

>>134909613
Official translations tend to be over-localized/westernized with a lot of memes, uncalled for jokes, and general nonsense that doesn't fit with the narrative.

I would not mind buying official ones if they aren't shit most of the time, which is like one in twenty five .

>>134911472
>>134911562
Nothing wrong with meme and westernized localization nerd. Not everyone weeb enough to understand obscure weeb references.

Pretty much all of this is already on the sekrit club so who cares, now translators can stop chaining themselves to baka-tsuki's autism.

>>134911623
So what does eating garbage taste like?

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>>134911623

>>134911623
Then maybe you should go back to /v/. Not everyone likes to read someones stupid fan fic

>>134911673
In before someone claims all people reading translations are garbage eaters.

>>134911673
I don't know. It's not me who read garbage weeb translation.

>>134911673
Ask the people reading machine and Chinese fan > English translations by ESLs.

>>134911623
I truly feel sorry for you anon.
You are missing out on a lot of things either omitted, exaggerated. or completely replaced with western bullshit.

>>134911738
Then what are you doing here in a weeb thread on a weeb board, you corporate kek?

>>134911758
I'd rather overlocalation than the incomprehensible gibberish some "translators" put up on baka-tsuki.

>>134911758
>missing out weeb bullshit
And nothing of value was lost.

Now I'm glad HO is completely unpopular despite airing right now.

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I have a good chunk of BT pdfs on my pc, can upload everything to mega if anyone is intersted. The catch is that I can't remember the last time I updated them, excluding Index (update to the last volume available)

>>134911838
Online Backup is always good

>>134911828
I wouldn't say its unpopular, but rather, everyone is still incredibly fucking salty, myself included

Is Index going to get serious official translations now? Or is jewpress going to keep translating one novel per year or whatever they're doing

>>134911903
They release four volumes a year.

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>>134911838
Turns out I had already uploaded some. If anyone wants the link just say so

>>134911903
>Index
>serious official translations
When pigs grow wings and fly.

>>134911943
How come they're so far behind
They're at OT9 or something right?

>>134911982
It's not popular at all in the west?
I mean it's pretty much the second best-selling LN in Japan (or something like that) and the anime has had great reception right? Does the west not give a shit about it?

>>134911872
Good. It was really dumb that so many peoples expected yet another index anime when there's so many other Kamachi novels that got absolutely nothing.

>>134911980
I'll take that link, more copies of everything floating around, the better.

>>134912003
I don't think Yen Press releases sales numbers, so who knows how well the LNs are selling in the states.

>>134912041
https://mega.nz/#F!AthxiKLS!BixUcUFU3IsUPtC5W-p87g

Currently uploading everything not on mega, but still missing several volumes. If anyone wants to help me with the stuff I miss it would be very appreciated.

>>134912109
What are the volumes you don't have

>>134911990
They started about a year ago. Volume 6 is out in Feb.

>>134912171
Currently checking

>Accel World 6-7, 8 is the last I have
>Boku wa Tomodachi 8 is the last I have, if I remember correctly there were some specials too?
>C3 everything but 6 and 9
>Chrome Shelled Regios 23
>Date a Live 7, maybe more?

>>134912297
Can't help, sorry.
But thanks for doing god's work anon

>>134912333
You're welcome, I may have even more on my tablet, have to check that too. Good thing I've always been paranoid with this kind of stuff, downloading everything afraid of copyright deleting it

>>134912394
Talking about backups, do you know when we'll finally be able to access the old /a/ archive without having to download 1TB of data?

>>134912424
I honestly have no idea, I just know that whoever hosted the old archive gave up after a crash that deleted data and made everything available to anyone who wanted to make another archive from scratch

>>134912471
Yeah the moe dump is available but not everyone can just download an entire imageboard archive onto their computer. Guess we have to wait for desustorage to upload it or something

>>134912424
would you ever consider a paid service for that?

>>134912629
Probably not unless it was a one-time, small payment (like $10) for a lifetime account or whatever
Why, do you want to monetize a new archive?

>>134912659
back in 05 i think moot considered having a paid archive service but then decided against it, makes me wonder if that would something hiro would ever consider looking into to try to make money off this site.

>>134912727
If hiro was willing to host the entire moe dump somewhere and if the price was reasonable I'm pretty sure he could make some money off of it

Why not suggest it on /qa/?

>>134912297
http://www.mediafire.com/view/e5zb4z6f0z41zxo/Chrome_Shelled_Regios_-_Volume_23_-_Like_a_Storm.pdf

Accel didn't see 6 and 7 around
All the other ones are at sekrit club

>>134912814
Thanks a lot, anon.

Sekrit club? I haven't been on /a/ for almost 2 years

>>134912109
When we finish it someone could do a torrent

Is BT the only site being DMCA'd for unlicensed translated LNs like this this week?

I read JAP LNs from other translation sites besides BT. It might be good to backup them as well but i'd rather do those who got DMCA'd now.

>>134913016
always backup

Is there really nothing that can be done, this is just fucked up, just because Japan sucks at merchandising do we really need to suffer

>>134912927
madokami

>>134913048
Im thinking for LNs im not even aware yet so and not reading. I want to have a copy for when i get around it.
I already backup everything i haven't read in BT. Im worried about other sites if they are any that got DMCa too.

>>134913136
Didn't it die?

>>134913180
It's coming back

>>134913200
Oh, nice to know that

M have been posted so many times here im sure those publishers are well aware of it already.
It even show up google. Keep it sekrit senpai

>>134904434
Don't except them when thier own boss is right in jail getting raped..
most raw literary gone from good from "that" forum

>>134913226
They could go deep web,

>>134913226
Couldn't they just modify their robots.txt for it to not be indexed at least?
It's pretty unlikely for publishers to make it go down, where is it hosted?

Please archive shit as epub and not pdf so we can keep the text files with proper formatting.
epub > pdf conversion is easy as hell, but pdf > epub is nightmarish.

>http://organizationasg.kokidokom.net/2015/10/22/why-bookwalker-believes-theyll-be-a-success-in-the-west/

All these because what to force they want to BookWalker in the US.

>>134913613
Whew! For a moment I thought they got Tokyo Ravens. It was just manga.

>>134913613
I wonder if they could just simulcast light novels just like what Funi and CR do.

Then people won't have to complain as much about how long it'll take for them to get to a certain part of the novel that they've already read or something cause availability is the biggest complaint people have and shit.

I'd still go to a secret club but whatever.

>>134913613
I don't know whether to be happy or sad.
Happy that i'd be able to buy it legally but sad because importing it will be a pain in the ass not to mention possible jail time if the cover deemed as too lewd.

>>134913746
>I wonder if they could just simulcast light novels just like what Funi and CR do.
---
>so by getting the original out first, simultaneously as the JP ones, I think that we will get more fans for the titles.

Well that's what they want to try and do, it'd be a good to see if it can take off that way although the people that prefer physical purchases/releases may still be annoyed since this system here is only digital.

>>134913796
Why would you still import it in Japanese if you could get it on BookWalker in English?

>>134913613
Yet none of their LNs are on there. They already licensed out the popular stuff like SAO to Yen Press.

>>134913921
This is the first step, nuke all the series now and get people craving, then put them on BookWalker later while you have the demand.
Also there isn't anything stopping them from also putting the eBook version of SAO with co operation with Yen Press on BookWalker either.

>>134913613
If it's as successful as the English section of Comic Walker, they're doomed.

looks like I was too late.

anyone got a link to sakurasou's translation?

unamed removed from their site as well

So, I registered in M irc but still can't login to site. wtf?

>>134914005
And make people boycott them out of spite. In a very small market.

>>134909444
It's the principle of the thing. At least let other anons choose to walk into the pit rather than just seal it up.

>>134915036
I registered today as well, no problems, downloading stuff

>>134915036
Anon could you explain how to get there, any link or do you have irc link? You can delete the link after that if you want to keep it hidden.

>>134915440
If you follow this anon's advice, I suggest posting (and deleting) your link in the archive as a ghost post.

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>>134915259
This is getting frustrating. Why I still cant login to site?

>>134915036
Wait a for a few minute and try again until you receive a confirmation.
Check the club's Topic History if you can't even figure out the correct IRC syntax.

>>134915662
Dude, stop. We won't spoonfeed you, figure it out by yourself or don't.

>>134915485
>>134915440
Seriously just google it. I saw the name in the previous post, googled it and 5 min later uploaded stuff, that isn't so hard

>>134915792
I figured out everything to this point >>134915662, really cant understand why else i need to do.

>>134915960
>you did READ.txt, didnt you?

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>>134892841
Why don't we just make our own site and host LN and manga?

>>134916629
Wow, i am really retarded. Thanks.

>>134916799
There is a very good place available but not much people know about it. It's: http://www.jcafe24.net/

You have to register and post 1 time and you can see the download links. You can post all the download links you want here. Even posting links to translated versions is allowed.

A very good place but seems not many anons know about it.

>>134916908
Why not just make our own so niggas dont have to register and shit

>>134892841
Asuka subs, Commie, and Coal Girls got hit with DCMAs too.

>>134917019
It's sad to see that we have to go underground just like in the old days. irc and other places are going to become popular again, the other alternative is going on the deep web.

Mega-anon here, just finished to upload everything I had. As soon as I'll have time I'll update what I miss with stuff from the sekrit club and vice versa

>>134917060
Nice joke.

Is it possible to make a complete bakatsuki dump and upload it to nyaa or something?

>>134901890
But anon, what if japs suddenly learn turkish and develop a taste for middle-eastern culture and join the ISIS?

Looks like madoka seriously hate me. I received a confirmation from bot that I registered, but still cant login to site.

>>134917614
https://mega.nz/#F!AthxiKLS!BixUcUFU3IsUPtC5W-p87g

Everything I had is now on mega, enjoy. Going to update with the volumes I'm missing as soon as I can

>>134919009
Mondaiji has vol missing. Uploading

>>134919217
I'll probably fix any missing volume in the next days, provided I can find it

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>>134895354
HA explain your property rights to native Americans.

Go read a history book. Its not stealing if you don't get caught/prosecuted.

Just move servers and begin again.

>>134895622
DMCA doesn't apply in Europe. They would have to hire some Swedish lawyers. Which takes money.

>>134905862
You may not know this but Dropbox scans all your files. Copyright and CP.

>>134892841
FUCK nooooooo

>>134909321
Fan TL is better than TokyoPop.

>>134892841
>DAL, Shana, Mondaiji, Oda Nobuna, Index, Oreimo, Itsuka Tenma, Hidan no Aria, Haganai
>Most that got DMCA'd are LNs I read and enjoy
WORST Christmas ever. Fucking hell, I want the world to burn to feel my suffering.

Fuck Baka-Tsuki for being retards and not fighting this.

>>134921100
I don't think HnA was hit. Its still up and wasn't listed on BT's facebook page as one of the ones dmca'd.

>>134921196
It did. Check again. It's better off than most others though since only half are gone now.

>>134921196
maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like only the foreign language pages were listed in the DMCA, so that might be why its still up. I'm sure it will come down. Also, the current translator has said they would stop translating if their blog got a DMCA, so this might be one series that will be dead for good after this is all said and done.

>>134913613
I bet this is why some of Yen Press' releases aren't available as ebooks, while some are, even ones on the same label. Kadokawa holding back the popular ones for BookWalker.

Man with the way things are going people may want to save up the other novels, especially ones that were already done like, "Silver Cross and Draculea" as well as Tokyo Ravens since the volumes that are completed are up to date, except for the side stories.

>>134921196
You will never know what the deal was with the G series guys.

oh no i'll never see the end of index

If only BT had moved their server years ago when this first started happening, it would have saved so much angst. As it is, if they do move it now, it will probably take a while, and they probably won't bring back any of the series that have been dmca'd recently since a lot of the translators have probably moved on.

>>134922058
Only because it won't ever end. NT isn't being taken down, and JS06 would probably keep translating it somewhere else if it was.

>>134922115
At the rate Kamachi is going, we'll probably be at the third iteration of Index when YP gets to NT. Although it does make me wonder if Kamachi had planned this in advance so that fan translation gets to continue with NT on a technicality. I mean, when YP announced they were doing 3-4 a year, Kamachi suddenly went into overdrive and started releasing Index just as fast or even faster than that.

>>134909613
That varies greatly on who does the actual translation. Even from the same publisher you get very different results. The yen press version of danmachi is really quite good. the seven seas version of 12 beast/monmusume... not so good.

>>134921495
Aren't all yenpress books available as ebooks on amazon? I recall buying most of them there. Some were a pain to search for, sure (like danmachi) but they were there.

>>134923693
Only like 20/30% of the stuff they have licensed currently have eBook versions.

>>134919650
EUCD is the same for Europe...

>>134923693
SAO, Accel World, Index, others, are not available.

>>134896457
Did they only translate up to chapter 3 of vol 13, I got some html's if that's alright

https://mega.nz/#!dFdhhToa!_56tPjvDuIw6kPKHVVifKe1BV2czai78JNefbo7met0

>>134923922
Index will come to digital platforms soon

https://twitter.com/yenpress/status/669551305405423617

All this scavenging for files is ridiculous. We need to adopt IPFS fast.

>>134922080
BT staff is cancer. Translators should go back to being decentralized rather than centralized under super autistic, retarded leadership like BT's owner.

>>134924816
I think decentralized translators would be fine as long as there's some aggregator that grabs releases like Aho. I mainly read on my ancient tablet and aho is a godsend.

>>134922080
It's never too late to move to a differemt server. And if they do move, I think TLs would be more willing to put their work back.

>>134924816
But this is a better solution. But there does need to be an umbrella of sort to keep it all organize to make it easier for everyone. It would be chaotic and time consuming to follow several dozens of LNs through a TL's own site without some sort of collective management.

>>134919009
missing DAL volume 7, anyone else got it?
Also thank you anon

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>>134894886
>your precious LN's will stop getting translated
Oh, sure, and MP3 file sharing stopped when the Feds took down Napster.

Whatever your opinions on light novels are, Anon, you don't have to be retarded about it.

>>134925982
http://www.mediafire.com/download/inco8pk10z60ezo/Date+A+Live+Volume+07+-+Miku+Truth.pdf

>>134926194
Thank you, the only thing i have is shield hero

>>134926707
The actual novel got translated, or do you just mean the WN. If it's the LN I'd love to see the differences since it seems like a completely different story but with more suffering.

>>134926885
just the WN, im waiting for a bit more volumes to be released so i can get it all at once

Why is there no ghost archive for LNs? There should be one. We need a safeguard for this kind of shit.

>>134927099
Woxxy still makes foolz software. Someone should tell him to code a LN archive.

>>134927242
>Woxxy
Still working on that MT replacement, right?

Im an argie, our laws don't even care about shit that hasn't been written by an argie author.
on't have a credit card and don't even know how to get a server, but if someone throws a clue at me about i'll get to it tomorrow or at worst monday
Can pay some 20 dollars or some more for a server

>>134927705
Do it. Someone guide this anon properly.

Open donation (with a limit) if you really need help with monthly server costs.

>>134927705

okay, im searching but im kinda lost, what i find are actual fisical servers sold for at least 2 to 3 times my monthly salary, so im obviously searching wrong, what am i supposed to actually search for?

>>134928183
You're looking at actual server costs. Server hosting is generally what you're looking for. Keep in mind you would need to find one locally. how to go about that I'm unsure.

>>134928269
okay, found a couple that are argie, how much space are we talking about? can i buy two times the same plan and somehow host the same in both? Because some are looking too small

>>134928336
>>134928269
also, hoe heavy would the transference be? more or less

>>134928371
You would need those numbers form someone at BT. Unless they publish their bandwith usage/disk usage you can't find it out another way.

>>134928336
I'm not expert, but if we are talking about text and images for LN hosting, then probably 2TB, maybe 3TB is ideal.

>>134928472
should i e-mail them?
i guess i'll do.


>>134928497
i'll have to call the companies that are located here tomorrow or monday and talk about better plans, because the top im finding at their webpages are things like 500gb for like 8-10USD and the likes, they must have better shit im guessing.

>>134928570
>8-10
Oh lel, now i started looking at the deluxe plans and im stuck at 600gb but at 22 USD

And i forgot how to use rizon.
fuck me in the ass twice

>>134928497
Really? Aren't most of the images not even full resolution? I wouldn't think even a TB for BT would be needed. Probably closer to 800 tops. The guy even said ~$20 They'd have to be a lot more popular then I give them credit for if they're using more then a TB

>>134928627
Ok, just fixed the pay method, can pay without Credit card, through PagoFacil, the same i use to pay for all my services, electricty, tv, etc..
One worry less

>>134928709
>not even a TB
you sure? then this should be easy
im stuck at multiple TBs, though im more worried about transference


delete that, found the one
https://zetahosting.net/webhosting

>infinite transference
>located in Lomas de Zamora, Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argieland
the thing is the storage space it's way too little, i'll call them tomorrow morning and see if other plans can be arranged and at what cost.

>>134928960
question to whoever may know, if a buy more than one plan, can i host the same webpage in both? because the plan with infinite transference is something like 4USD month, so if i can just get 5 of those everything would work just fine

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>>134894333
>>134904272
>there are other anons reading Blade Dance
Color me surprised.

>>134928709
B-T doesn't have every LN project out there. I don't think they even have most LN projects. The number of web novels and also the projects hosted off-site in their affiliated circle combined would be more than all the LNs B-T has up, I believe.

>>134929016
Okay, gotta go to eat dinner, pls someone answer, if when i come the thread is ded and i still have doubts of something else came up i'll start another thread with this name, if not then if i have something big by tomorrow or monday and need help then i'll start it then.
No guarantees though

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>>134907019
>seriously hoping the adaption of an LN you enjoyed gets another season

>>134929168
Start by contacting the guys at BT, a/ñ/on, to see what they actually want and need.

>>134913613
This is great problem is i'm following a boatload of series.

>>134929928
>Actually being okay with it
>Even wanting localized translation
End yourself.

For people who read web novels, the authors of those web novels usually head to Overlap to start publishing their web novels.

So yeah, quite strange how LN publishers like Overlap and Hobby Japan get ignored by translators while they mainly translate LNs from Kadokawa, instead.

>>134892841
D-doushio

>>134930108
Well, Kadokawa does have by far the largest market share in the LN industry.

>>134929803
created an account og BT and asked at the IRC, but i can't contact them through BT since i don't find any contact info and can't create an account on the forum since my ISP is banned.
kek
hopefully i'll find a way through IRC, if someone has the email of the admins or someone related pls post it, im leaving the IRC open

>>134930582
You can contact some of the other admins on #campione.

Whoa, madokami also removed LNs related to this DMCA? I regret not getting the rest of Spice and Wolf.

Why the fuck aren't they fighting this? Half of this shit will never see the light of day past Japan, or in Index's case, it will take fucking 20 years to have them catch up to the current LNs. It's not like it's detracting sales. Especially the unlicensed shit, what the fuck.

>>134930943
See
>>134913613
TLs may be chink engrish

>>134912018
No, it was dumb to announce anything but a index 3. It was Index 10th anniversary and not just that, they spent the ENTIRE YEAR hyping up index. This was an entire fucking year worth of pure undiluted hype and on the day increased that hype by shoving the place up with index crap, have index shit and even bringing in the singers for the OP and ED to sing them. From all that hype, you'd be retarded tp think its anything but index 3

Everyone has the right to be salty over that. It was straight up cruel

>>134931132
Everything about it was advertised as Kamachi's 10th anniversary, not Index's.

The announcement event was absolute bullshit, but there was nothing wrong with having the HO anime as the last of the 10 announcements.

>>134892841
Who cares? We have this

http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=720999

>>134912018

>10 anniversary of INDEX
>Most of the announcements leading up to the finale were about INDEX
>Finale has all the voice actors from INDEX attending
>All of the INDEX and RAILGUN openings were played during the finale

And you say that somehow it was dumb to expect more Index. You're fucking retarded.

I like HO, but it deserved to fucking tank after the shit they pulled.

>>134913613
>http://global.bookwalker.jp/categories/3/
Their English LN collection so far.... Boy to they have their work cut out for them getting this anywhere off the ground. It's going to be a long ride.

>>134931493
Cant they just steal the fan translations?

>>134931581
Something something moral ethics something something legal issues.
Fan translators would actually have the right to sue if they did so, plus i'd give the company a bad name too.

>>134931581
>https://fantasticmemes.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/oregairu-unrelease-schedule/
There have been attempts on that from the translator side but as you can see it's pretty futile.

>>134931125

You know, this shit would have a shot at working if they weren't so fucking hostile towards the fan translators. Like, as they translate each novel and put shit up on Book Walker, they issue a corresponding take down on that particular book.

Instead, they take down a bunch of shit all at once. There is no guarantee they won't drop said titles mid-way through. Long LNs like Index will take years for them to catch up to. There is no other alternative other than waiting on their bullshit. It's a huge fuck you to fans.

And now they aren't going to fucking get anywhere because fans will boycott their shit out of spite. Because they were too stupid to realize how the internet works to realize that they can't truly suppress fan translation and file sharing. All this did was piss off a bunch of people with a mild inconvenience. Nothing is going to change. We have most of this shit backed up. It's like Napster all over again.

Oh well, Gen X mentality for you.

>>134931581

God I fucking hope they try. Imagine the sweet irony if the fuckers who DMCA'd all this shit got sued back for copyright.

>>134931643
>>134931938
https://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/8.html

Okay so the question is will they still be continuing translations OUTSIDE baka-tsuki?

>>134932377

Doesn't matter, you can argue intellectual property and what not. Even if it doesn't do anything, it would raise such a huge stink in the already niche LN community that they would be fucking ruined.

>>134892841
been had them saved since before Index was lincensed