My perspective on things

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Parth37955

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I rather this not be a thread, so it'll just be a blog post for now.

So, I joined this community a little more than a year ago. It was fun, especially for a person with no life whatsoever. Reading new concepts, getting attached to characters, meeting and talking to some incredible people (I got connections :D), ect. etc. Every now and then there was pain at how sucky a novel became (TDG was god-awful). I generally don't like change...but we're facing a pretty big one right now.

Well, most of you are aware of the shitshow going on so I won't go into too much detail about that but...
1. I would like to request people to not make death threats towards either parties, especially not to the translators/editors who work for them.
2. I want people to realize just...powerless NU is right now. Everyone seems to think "Ay, if they put up paywalls, NU will block them." Well, we probably will, if we follow protocol, but...QI does not need NU. Their app can send you notifications of their releases, other trackers like NU can easily lead you to them. Don't think NU will be able to cut Qidian off. Qidian is part of a super big company. They have, compared to us, unlimited resources.
3. Odds of WW's victory are...let's say low. So prepare now to lose out on novels from WW. It might make it easier when it really happens. In fact, prepare to lose out on more than just WW novels. How many people do you think will willingly sign that BS contract? (Prepare doesn't mean don't get mad)
4. Qidian novels aren't what make up the community. This community will not fall just cause a couple of the most popular novels disappear. So do stop thinking it's the end of the world. Other publishers may not be as large as Qidian, but there should still be plenty of good novels to read...it pains me that I won't be able to finish some of the stories I've read for over a year now but...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what'cha gonna do?
5. Btw, my earlier comments weren't to deter you or tell you to stop doing what you're doing now(except the death threats, that ain't cool). Let's show people that they shouldn't piss off a group of people with no lives whatsoever.

P.S. To all the translators who are being forced to drop their novel (or will be in the future), thank you for your service. :) My life is a whole heck of a lot more fun because of this community that you guys help build than it was before.​

Comments

    1. MEGA SPARTA CHICKEN Sep 16, 2017
      +1 like
    2. CloudySkySadMoon May 28, 2017
      None of my favorites come from Qidian. *Phew*
    3. MaskMe May 26, 2017
      Sometimes its okay to pull the trigger and blowing your brains out
    4. Parth37955 May 25, 2017
      ...we can't get DMCA'ed...we don't host content. request as in asked. However no publisher has ever spoken to us directly so this is usually reserved for translators.
    5. Heyu May 25, 2017
      Requested as DMCA kind of request or requested as "hey can you take down that link"?

      Because while I do not know in which country and jurisdiction is NU hosted, DMCA in most places only applied to the one hosting the protected content and not to the ones linking to it, but I would understand that NU may not want to get involved in legal issues..
    6. Parth37955 May 25, 2017
      @Heyu I'll answer to the best of my abilities, I guess. We don't link to paywalled chapters. That's our policy. As for links, we do not take those down unless requested. We keep them up as a record.
    7. Heyu May 25, 2017
      What is the official policy of NU on what can or cannot be linked on NU?

      Because QI would just publish in an easy to copy format all the novels under a paywall, and people only need to pay the fee to have access to all the work, already done and paid by QI to copy paste and publish on their own websites so we would be able to still read the novels..

      So the question for this community is, would we be able to keep looking and tracking the novels here on sites that are no QI or not?

      Because you are saying it like novels from QI would be blocked out of NU but there are novels like Overlord that even after Skythewood quit because of YP, the proyect was took over by overlord translations and you can still find it on NU (just look and was up to date)

      And we all know that is a licensed novel and that is "unnoficially" there and that probably YP doesn't like it that much..

      So, would novels OF QI be blocked out of the site, or would novels of QI linking to QI be blocked off?

      Because while is true that QI doesn't need NU, NU not necesarily need QI either..