also of note, they never account for the fact that piracy increases sales in some aspects, without piracy - anime = small.
buying physical books when they come on sale for a series you read online? yes, I have a nice collection.
Merch, and so forth.
They take ages to localize Mangas, even famous ones like Jojo. If it wasn't for the community, Manga and Anime would have just a small fraction of attention it has today
They tried it with Tachiyomi.
Reader apps and programs are infinitely harder to recover from the just sending a lawyer to mangadex.
Anyway, they tried taking down Tachiyomi.
They bullied the maintainer successfully and the Tachiyomi team first removed the in-built functionaility for the sources then seized development on the app as a whole.
Due to Tachiyomi being FOSS (thanks again to all the devs) one of the primary maintainers forked and renamed the project :)
And now we are back to square one with Mihon :)
If only these groups spent all that money in underserved areas and paying artists. Classically, they'll instead go after the people filling their own service gaps.
