Scans Daily...

From Peter David... 😱 😕

Did you ever hear of Scans Daily?

I had not.

Kathleen informs me that it began as a site on Live Journal where individual scenes from comic books were put up and commented upon. Apparently, this included certain panels from “Young Justice” to which homoerotic subtext was ascribed. It’s a shame I never had a chance to see those. That would have been funny.

But somewhere along the way, it morphed into posters giving page by page summaries of new comics, complete with the entire pages. Writing a critical review and posting up a panel or a page to illustrate a point falls under fair use. Posting over half the book while saying, “This happened, then this happened, then this happened,” is not remotely fair use and a blatant copyright violation.

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I used to visit that site sometimes to see if I should buy comics or not, it's been shut down though

Originally posted by Trackz
I used to visit that site sometimes to see if I should buy comics or not, it's been shut down though

I was looking for it. 😉

Bad idea for them to be shut down. LJ, Marvel, and DC might just be boycotted and sent angry emails and snail mail over this.

Also, it was free advertisement.

LiveJournal shuts down Scans Daily community [Update]

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EDIT: PETER DAVID, YOU KILLED scans_daily!!!

Was it Peter David? I see the end of his comic writing days if it was.

Jason M. Bryant says:
March 6, 2009 at 11:35 pm
“They have invented a machine that allows any human being alive to hear any song, watch any movie, or read any book, for free, instantly.”

Except for the “instantly” part, we already had that. It’s called shoplifting. The security in most stores isn’t that great, it can be beaten without too much difficulty.

🙄 UM...

I can go to Borders or any book store or library and read books, magazines, comic books, newspapers and so on for free.

So, posting a scan on the net is bad? ❌ 🤪

This is about an article dealing with the closure of that site, yes? I originally thought it was an advertisement for a site that shares comics illegally.

Anyway. There's a difference between comic sharing and scan-posting. Even the companies themselves, which occasionally release 2-3 page teasers, recognize this. It's an important distinction, because it's the difference between, say, showing aspects of a character that will increase his/her popularity, and showing so much that sales will decrease. And it seems, from the article(s) there, that that particular site failed to grasp the distinction.

Nope, this is just a discussion about what happened and supposedly detrimental activities.

More than not say they have bought comics because of Scans Daily.
Others say they have found comics they normally wouldn't have then bought them.

When anyone can go to a comic shop, book store, library, school, friend's house and read the entire comic how are scans detrimental?

I don't see it and if this industry starts attacking the people who support them it will collapse.

I believe you could just scan an entire comic to your computer and upload it to a CD and give it away or sell it.
So, scans aren't going to do anything but sell more comics.