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by BasouKazuma 1544 days ago
This is a complex issue. Even with Crunchyroll, we were unable to stop all piracy or even get all anime translated since we can't force people to release their work overseas or on a subscription service. Scanlation and piracy will continue to exist for monetary reasons, availability, ideological, and personal preferences. For example, some people don't like the style of some official translations in terms of either the wording of the translation or the visual presentation of it on the page and will go to piracy to get a scanlated copy the matches their style. Though there is a path to severely reduce the amount of manga that isn't officially translated for series that are available for overseas distribution so that it can garner a fanbase. That reduced reliance on scanlations is what we are focused on.