User blog comment:Udarsha45/Operation Against Foreign Sites For Uploading Manga-Anime/@comment-24153155-20140802000029

That's so sad to hear. I do understand it's a major issue, but to be honest, these websites make me buy the actual volumes in order to support the mangaka. I read my very first WSJs and manga when I visited my cousins in Japan. In that time it was quite difficult to come by manga in the areas where I grew up, and for years I kinda had to rely on family and friends in order to get my updates. Especially when I moved to Europe, nobody seemed to have heard of manga and anime until TV-stations started to broadcast Pokémon and DragonBall-Z, but correct me if I'm wrong. It became this huge thing, and the very existence of these websites where you can stream/download manga/animé, paved the way to its popularity. I suppose that many people now read the manga/watch the animé online and then buy these/merchandise, and I guess that will continue even when it becomes impossible to have access to these online. However, I think this will be a temporary thing, as the generations after us will have more difficulties accessing manga/animé and thus sales would decrease. I hope they come up with some decent solutions which makes it affordable and easy accessible to all of us.