Hey it motivated me. I've bought such obscure manga I never would of even thought about even glancing at before. Also for me manga is like a gateway drug lol. Once I get into those obscure-ish manga or even just a manga I love, I look for other material and buy it right up. Anime, Novels, Drama CD's, Apparel, Toys, Figure's, whatever it is I need it! I just think people are more prone to buying something they've seen before and know they like rather than taking a chance buying something they've never heard of and aren't able to see until it's too late.
I know OM and other sites didn't translate it obv. I'm part of a smaller scanlation group so I know that the material doesn't always go to torrents and that certain groups might just give up because of things like this. Some groups are able to do the work they do because of generous donations, of which come from people who've read them on websites not DL'd from a random torrent that could contain a virus. The members of SL groups are regular people they're either students or have a full-time job so I guarantee many won't feel it's worth their time anymore to do the work just to have it bomb on a torrent site. I've already been in 3 groups who've lost the cause over the years due to lack of time, enthusiasm, help and appreciation so this damn sure doesn't help the cause in any way. So for manga that doesn't get licensed we're even more **** out of luck if nobody is around to clean, translate, proofread, typeset and edit it all.
