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Licensed material: Regarding downloads, while links to non-licensed material are tolerated and are generally acceptable, threads having links to web sites or other resources containing illegal downloads of licensed anime and/or manga are not permitted on the forums. Asking for or giving out such content is a warnable offense and any topics or posts created for such a purpose will be removed. This sticky covers the largest listing of unlicensed anime. Note: Linking to a site that contains licensed materials, even if you aren't linking to the materials in question, ie a picture gallery when the site contains a media page with downloads of licensed manga, is still considered linking to licensed materials and a ToS violation. Any and all threads asking for download links of any sort will be removed from the forum and the creator punished if necessary. The downloads sticky covers the largest hub of unlicensed links.
That's the official part from Gaia. There are several arguments you can make in favor of either side, but I'd prefer if we played it safe and tried to keep scanlations links to a minimum unless they obey the above quote.
The rules, however, get a little tricky when it comes to American/Japanese copywright since many of you are posting links to manga not yet released in America. Still, I think it would be best if we tried to avoid scanlations. If you must, PM the links but I really don't want to have to warn/ban people.
Thanks everyone
