So it appears that Manga publishers have finally woken up and realized that people are actually "pirating" their books. It really took Japanese manga publishers this long to realize that someone was scanning their favorite manga out of the phone book like anthologies for online consumption?
Anyway, most of the big scantilation hosting sites like MangaFox and MangaHelpers were hit and have taken down massive amounts of manga. While anime is such a production and easily finable, I always liked finding that new or interesting manga that I had never seen before. Titles that had become the MPOTM like Bushido Sixteen and Say I Love You. So for now the MPOTM is dead, mainly due to this from ANN:
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The 36 publishers in Japan's Digital Comic Association and several American publishers are forming a coalition to combat the "rampant and growing problem" of scanlations — illicit digital copies of manga either translated by fans or scanned directly from legitimate English releases.
The coalition asserts that "scanlation aggregator" sites "now host thousands of pirated titles, earning ad revenue and/or membership dues at creators' expense while simultaneously undermining foreign licensing opportunities and unlawfully cannibalizing legitimate sales." Google lists one site on its list of the 1,000 most-visited sites on the web. An unnamed spokesperson for the coalition also pointed to smartphone applications designed to read such sites as an escalation of the problem.
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