Postby uc pseudonym » Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:44 pm
The answer is multi-fold:
Initially, no link to any series, regardless of its status, is allowed on site. This can become a legal complication we don't need. We do not control private messages, however, and do not think it prudent to demand that no one ever ask for links to be sent to them. Therefore we do not condemn this thread.
Secondly, discussions of series not available in the United States are allowed. You knew that.
Thirdly, we do urge that everyone take a serious moral inventory before reading scanlations. The people that I know in the Bleach discussion thread are not saving the manga permanently and are buying it from Viz anyway, so they've come to one conclusion (I'm obviously among them, given that I started the thread in question). However, we respect those who feel the other way, and only ask that they not attack those who have made a different decision.