Batoto closing down

Discussion in 'Manga Discussion' started by theilikepie, Jan 7, 2018.

  1. Wujigege

    Wujigege *Christian*SIMP*Comedian

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    Get your rights first approach does not work. Look at Crunchyroll, look at Wuxiaworld, you need to have the audience first so you can be in a better position to negotiate.
    It is a cruel world, ADV essentially got bankrupted by Japanese publishers.
    The next step becomes to sell or get further investment to grow
    Dramafever is also similar they stole subtitles too haha
    Basically I can point out almost every legal company involved with licensing Asian media that started off as thieves
     
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    Gitami Well-Known Member

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    Well at least it isn't like Nyaa torrents, some people are busy backing the data. Even now there's still a vacuum after Nyaa.
     
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    KvnJrch Active Member

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    RIP T_T it's the most decent site and yet.... ugghhhhhh
     
  4. Wujigege

    Wujigege *Christian*SIMP*Comedian

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    It's the good guys that die first.
    It's a cruel world.
    I rather be evil and survive.
     
  5. Fluffums

    Fluffums 【R-18 Researcher】【Seeker of Moe】

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    I guess Gandhi and Mother Teresa were fairly evil then. They only lived 78 and 87 years, respectively.
     
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    To be fair neither were quite as saintly as they are often portrayed, despite one being a literal saint.
     
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  7. jersanxx1

    jersanxx1 『Lost Toy』『Mostly Lurking』

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    Most of the servers are beginning to crash down now... It's already too hard to enter. Always getting 502-ed.
     
  8. Wujigege

    Wujigege *Christian*SIMP*Comedian

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    Does anyone know what software they use for displaying manga?
     
  9. Zones

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    =(

    Is it already dead?

    Wonder where all those translators that don't have their own websites are going to go now.
     
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    jersanxx1 『Lost Toy』『Mostly Lurking』

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    Condolence for areas who cannot access reddit(ISP banned). Those Gov't banned website can be still accessed via VPN, but for those ISP banned ones, condolences..... Or just hope for them to update via Mangaupdates.
     
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    Eldau And now for something completely different

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    Oh damn, should have exported my follows list earlier. oh rip.

    It came up, lifted everything now, that was one hell of a scare.
     
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  12. AliceShiki

    AliceShiki 『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』

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    They can always upload at aggregators tbh, I know of at least one translator that does that.
     
  13. Wujigege

    Wujigege *Christian*SIMP*Comedian

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    AliceShiki 『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』

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    After searching with my super slow internet I found... A sadly small amount of meaningful results, I got too lazy to try and change the keywords, so... The best I got was this one, but it's 2 months old, so the info might be outdated: https://vatoto.com/forums/topic/28988-ew-the-site-made-with-the-bought-batoto-domain-ew/

    Apparently, it's an aggregator that bought batoto's domain, mangawindow or something... On another note, it seems like Grumpy tried selling the domain to actual publishers before putting it for auction, but they weren't interested.
     
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  15. Wujigege

    Wujigege *Christian*SIMP*Comedian

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    I still see comments talking about non-profit, that is exactly what killed bato.to
    Servers and the likes are not free. Stupidity at its finest