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« on: March 10, 2010, 01:21:08 pm » |
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I applaud their work. But who sits down one day and says " I am going to scan 30 years worth of comics!"? I mean it is not like game, movie, or music piracy where you just have to click a button and eat a sandwich. Scanning shit can be a pain in the ass.
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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 01:23:51 pm » |
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I'd imagine many of them did it over the course of a few years even before folks really started sharing them.
It's an easy way to view your comics at a moments notice, no risk of damage to them, and you can just box up your actual comics and bury them in the basement and not have them take up room in your room.
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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2010, 01:40:17 pm » |
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Scanning shit can be a pain in the ass.
It is,try it. Not only do you have to scan each one,you have edit it,than save each and every one of those pages. Than you have to upload all of those pages.You would need some pretty advanced software to match the speed of people's demand .If you actually done a respect thread for instance...that's ain't nothing like scanning comics. That's not getting into trying to repair tears, ink marks,or some crap on your books...or the hells of collectings,TBP,...that's a ***** too. Never mind the hell of completing a comic collection |
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« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2010, 01:51:38 pm » |
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I had to scan some paperwork for my mom could never get it before 60 megs for one sheet. I gave up and just typed it by hand.
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« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2010, 04:28:04 pm » |
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I'd imagine many of them did it over the course of a few years even before folks really started sharing them.
It's an easy way to view your comics at a moments notice, no risk of damage to them, and you can just box up your actual comics and bury them in the basement and not have them take up room in your room.
There are people who have the zero day stuff up within 24 hours. A lot of them just like the psuedo-fame they get from it. Thats why most of the files have a big stupid splash page with the scanners tag at the end. |
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« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2010, 04:33:12 pm » |
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I had to scan some paperwork for my mom could never get it before 60 megs for one sheet. I gave up and just typed it by hand.
By paperwork, do you mean gigantic billboards? Scanning just text and a masthead shouldn't bring you higher than 10 megs at a very high resolution, unless you are using a full-color graphical format rather than B&W Text. |
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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2010, 04:35:20 pm » |
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There are people who have the zero day stuff up within 24 hours. A lot of them just like the psuedo-fame they get from it. Thats why most of the files have a big stupid splash page with the scanners tag at the end.
24 hours? By noon EST there are usually one or two books up already. |
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2010, 04:36:35 pm » |
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There are people who have the zero day stuff up within 24 hours. A lot of them just like the psuedo-fame they get from it. Thats why most of the files have a big stupid splash page with the scanners tag at the end.
Oh, you mean the guys putting up new stuff. I've never scanned stuff, so I have no idea what it entails, but I'd imagine a lot of these guys view it as an activity of sorts every Wednesday/Thursday. |
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« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2010, 04:37:13 pm » |
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It's like how I was able to get Something Something Dark Side the day the DVD came out.
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« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2010, 04:48:26 pm » |
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But like Slayven mentioned, ripping a DVD means sticking it in the drive and walking away while scanning a comic means scanning each page, organizing the files, and packaging them in CBR format.
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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2010, 04:50:30 pm » |
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Well, as I said, I don't know what's involved, but that doesn't sound like a whole lot of work.
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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2010, 04:55:34 pm » |
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It is. I had to do similar things for college projects. Even with the best equipment your going to kill an hour doing all of that and some of these guys do every zero day comic.
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« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2010, 02:15:40 pm » |
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Some of the 0day people have to work at comic shops
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« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2010, 03:18:52 pm » |
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But like Slayven mentioned, ripping a DVD means sticking it in the drive and walking away while scanning a comic means scanning each page, organizing the files, and packaging them in CBR format.
Plus they put the splashpages together seamlessly, and that can be an enormous pain in the dick. |
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« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2010, 07:20:38 pm » |
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Some of the 0day people have to work at comic shops
They almost have to work somewhere along the distribution pipeline |
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« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2010, 07:23:02 pm » |
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Plus they put the splashpages together seamlessly, and that can be an enormous pain in the dick.
Yeah, they usually do a real good job with that which means they don't just scan them but take them apart. I wouldn't doubt if they take the time to photoshop them to make sure they look seamless. |
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« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2010, 08:51:13 pm » |
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They do. Cut them up with xactoknives, photoshop the pages together, scan them at super high resolution, etc.
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« Reply #17 on: March 13, 2010, 09:08:46 pm » |
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They do. Cut them up with xactoknives, photoshop the pages together, scan them at super high resolution, etc.
Hmm... which if they have to mutilate their comics like that to scan them, they likely buy two copies, considering that they are collectors? Which can be a hell of a chunk out the wallet. Can kinda see why the comic industry drags it's feet on comic piracy. |
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« Reply #18 on: March 13, 2010, 09:42:11 pm » |
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Well, as I said, I don't know what's involved, but that doesn't sound like a whole lot of work.
As everyone's said, you are a fucking moron. Try scanning a full comic by hand, cleaning up the images, making sure they keep aligned and at the same size. And tell us how easy it is. I tried the Taskmaster series back when it came out, which was a gigantic pain in the ass. Thankfully, others uploaded their versions. And yeah, Gre was telling it true: scanners do cut their comics up for those nice, perfectly sized pictures we take for granted. And keep in mind many people are covering several series at a time. |
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« Reply #19 on: March 13, 2010, 10:59:59 pm » |
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Yea, Jesse basically informed me on this
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« Reply #20 on: March 15, 2010, 12:07:18 am » |
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I did it once for a japanese Street Fighter book. It was over 200 pages and took me a few days to do (shit gets real boring, waiting for the lamp to warm up each time, putting in the pages correctly aligned, save the images and then repeat 100+ times).
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« Reply #21 on: March 15, 2010, 12:23:48 am » |
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I did it once for a japanese Street Fighter book. It was over 200 pages and took me a few days to do (shit gets real boring, waiting for the lamp to warm up each time, putting in the pages correctly aligned, save the images and then repeat 100+ times).
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« Reply #22 on: March 15, 2010, 01:33:36 am » |
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book was in japanese, so its much easier to try and get someone to translate parts of it (what certain graphs mean, basically technical data gallore), also makes it much easier to check up on pages without having to find the book.
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« Reply #23 on: March 15, 2010, 05:49:12 am » |
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Wow, couldn't imagine scanning that many pages. I've done i before for around ten pages, and even that took some time to properly get right.
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