User blog comment:Tinni/Onemanga will no longer host manga/@comment-1454424-20100723093218

Thanks for the link Lia. Reading it, I see that they really are going after aggregators as opposed to scanlators. Mind you, Mangastream did have a short lived app on the iPhone. I don't know why on earth they did that but they did and Viz moved within 24 hours to take the app down. Not that I think that means that Mangastream is part of the 30 sites being targeted. What it does mean is that aggregators will be hunted down and destroyed under this plan.

Now I understand how many people think this will hurt the manga industry because many people have discovered manga titles through these aggregators. However, that implies that those people who have discovered the manga titles then go out and purchase the volumes or merchandise and things like that. The latter does not always happen. Perhaps the Openmanga.org thing, which BTW is not publisher driven despite rumours to the contrary but more chrunchyroll.com third-party endeavour as far as I can tell, will reach the happy medium of us getting our manga and them getting their profit. We shall see.