I completely agree with you, in fact your little proposal is probably one of the most sensible things I've seen in a long time. And I think it makes sense to say that yes half of my doujinshi collection wouldn't be what it is today either if it hadn't been for scanlation groups or hosting sites. AnimeA is soon to follow too, they have banners posted on every manga/doujin page asking the public if they know whether or not something has been licensed and this senseless, "well you need to either buy it or you can't preview it" shit is ridiculous.
If I were you and that were my suggestion, I would probably write a formal letter/e-mail to company reps from big name manga distributors and try to explain your feelings (which I can say at least line up with mine and quite possibly a good majority of other peoples feelings as well) and see if you can get them on board. If you needed signatures or something I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to get 'em electronically especially if you write any manga hosting website to post a link to a petition website.
Lemme know how it goes, and even if you don't pursue it, I still think you have a great idea there.
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Date: 2010-06-19 08:24 pm (UTC)If I were you and that were my suggestion, I would probably write a formal letter/e-mail to company reps from big name manga distributors and try to explain your feelings (which I can say at least line up with mine
and quite possibly a good majority of other peoples feelings as well) and see if you can get them on board. If you needed signatures or something I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to get 'em electronically especially if you write any manga hosting website to post a link to a petition website.Lemme know how it goes, and even if you don't pursue it, I still think you have a great idea there.