According to Publishers Weekly, Japan's Digital Comic Association and US-based manga publishers are combining forces to combat scanilation sites (30 in total) such as OneManga.com and MangaFox.com. These sites began in the 70's to bring manga over to the United States when not readily available. The publishers are finally taking a stand against these sites to protect their properties. Anime New Network has similar coverage of this story.
In the three weeks since, approximately 330 tiles have been removed from MangaFox (mostly VIZ titles) and several have been removed from a similiar agregator, OneManga. Some of these titles have been removed by the scanilation creater ovver fears of legal action. Some titles, however, have found their way back on to the site.
What makes scanilations so harmful is that the creators and publishers are essentially having their work stolen from them. With the current economy, this makes a rough time even more difficult for companies. Recenly, VIZ had to cut back 40% of their staff. If we want to continue to have manga brought over to the US, we need to support the creators and publishers.
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