CI Yaoi community what they are doing and asking for is not right

[reader17]

NOTIFICATION

I hereby announce that I condemn CI YAOI - http://community.livejournal.com/ci_yaoi - for what they are doing. They steal download links and files from scanlation groups, post and reshare the files without permission from the groups. They have no respect whatsoever to the people who buy the books, scan and translate those projects.

I condemn them and I won't have anything to do with them. I don't tolerate such actions. I hereby state that I am not a member of CI YAOI community and I will never steal from any scanlation groups or re-share without permission.


I do not belong to CI Yaoi but from what I read on one site they are asking for people to get them information and stories from groups that are locked down. That isn't right! Groups lock down their membership because of people not following rules. If everyone followed the rules I don't think the groups would be locked down. I think it is wrong for what they are asking and doing. 

Comments

[yes-rhade.livejournal.com]

Everyone is posting the same thing - it feels like I'm reading Facebook. lol

But what a shame. When I first started reading scans, it was such a friendlier community of people. Now with Libre sending out cease and desist letters, DM Guild asking their workers to report on scanlation groups, and scanlating groups becoming so possessive and member selective - it's just not as plesant as it used to be.

[mothra5.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm just chiming in. I had never even heard of CI Yaoi before all these people started posting condemning them. What did they do? I do agree with the previous poster as a long time member of the yaoi community I would follow all the groups and always respect their rules. But now it seems like the community is no longer a fun place and many new people who have discovered yaoi probably feel alienated. I did when I was purged from a group when I was hospitalized and when I went to the Livejournal of the maintainer there was a statement saying that if you missed the announcement you must not follow the group closely which was not true in my case. Anyway. I was just curious what CI Yaoi did?

[cerberovo.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, all those announcements and links, CI got a pretty nice advertisement. (~_o) I, like many others, didn’t know about them before.

I wouldn’t just blame people breaking rules, many people would like to follow the rules, but they have no chance even to join. Not that I think, it’s only bad when a group is closed for new members (for reasonable time?), but than the groups can’t be surprised that ‘outsiders’ will try to find other ways. This doesn’t mean that agree with what CI is doing, just a though.

Well, the best is if a book gets licensed in English or other languages fast enough so people can buy them, assuming they really want to support the mangaka.

[saitou-michiyou.livejournal.com]

CI YAOI sure is scary, because of them some scanlation making their guard double. But their account seems to be purged, it's because of what their doing is wrong or they just shut down themselves?

This world of scanlation sure is becoming more warned about someone who might be stealing their work,,