Hello folks,
before I get to today’s release, I feel like I have to vent some anger.
Having read the the comments at another translator’s novel translation, I realized there are some people who think it is alright to steal other people’s work and put them up on their site without even having any permission to do that.
Now I do know that this topic isn’t anything new as I’ve seen the thread on NU forum but after checking out the offender’s site today, I was saddened and disappointed that there are such people.
In the first place, we, the translators, already have a problematic standing as we don’t have any official license to translate these novels (otherwise it would be quite easy to bring down such site with legal claims). But I, and I think I can talk for the other other translators on this too, put in a lot effort into translating, editing, releasing and running my site, so that you, the readers, can enjoy the novels.
Therefore, a person or people stealing the content to use it for their own site and, to top it off, claim the content to be their property is the lowest thing someone could do towards someone else’s work.
Of course I could ignore the theft, but I don’t feel like doing so. Thus, I considered my options.
With wordpress.com those are pretty much limited. To avoid site scrapping bots to do their work, the easiest way would be to use JavaScript or such to cloud the content, but that isn’t possible here. I’m no web hacker to know all tricks and gaps possible to use, therefore I decided to use the sole tool available to me with wordpress.com: Password-protect each chapter release in the hope that the bots won’t be able to simply grab the content. The passwords will change with each release.
This will be a heavy blow for binge readers, I know. But, if you want to blame someone, then blame those who take other people’s work lightly.
Of course, I’m open for other suggestions that would work with wordpress.com and are easy to implement.
Well, enough of that for now.
Chapter 46 of Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! is longer than the previous chapter. Thus I decided to split it apart into 2 parts once again. The second part will follow next weekend.
Please extend your thanks to Kruncs for editing it for your reading entertainment!
Also thank Zazabooze for re-editing chapters 21 and 22!
The password for this chapter is Artur
|>> Enjoy part 1 <<|
Cheers,
Shasu