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When news broke last month that a coalition of American comics publishers banded together to sic lawyers and the FBI on HTMLcomics.com, a popular website that hosted unauthorized scans of new and old comics, many industry watchers wondered if U.S. and Japanese publishers would take similar action against manga scanlation sites. Well, the speculation is over.
As of this morning, news broke on Publishers Weekly, Anime News Network and via press releases from VIZ Media and tweets from TokyoPop that 36 Japanese publishers (joined together as the Japanese Digital Comic Association) and U.S. manga publishers, including Yen Press, TokyoPop, Vertical Inc., and the Tuttle-Mori Agency have announced the formation of "a coalition of Japanese and U.S. publishers announced a coordinated effort to combat a rampant and growing problem of internet piracy plaguing the manga industry."
