There's a website called Yaoi Sei that uploads yaoi scanlations. Some groups weren't cool with her doing that and asked the files to be taken down, and they received a response along the lines of, "Fuck you, I'll do what I want." As a result of this, several groups either made their communities restricted with ridiculous requirements to obtain membership or just plain shut their doors. I find this shit pretty fucking ridiculous. Seriously, why are you scanlating if you don't want people to read it? That's a lot of effort you're putting into it if you only wanted about twenty or thirty people to look at it.

The response is, "Well, because we're the ones who put all this effort, we have a right to control the distribution." I'd agree with that except for this: You know who also should have a right to the distribution? The fucking mangaka whose work you're disseminating on the internet. How many groups have asked the actual artist if it's okay to take their work, edit it, translate it, and then put it online? I can only think of one who did that and received approval. And I can think of six more who received messages from the original creators asking for them to stop this shit. I can actually think of one website who posted a PSA about Yaoi Sei and ranted about them, but a few months ago they made a post requesting people not inform the mangaka of what they're doing. That's really fucking two-faced if you ask me.

Seriously, I don't know why there's so much drama over this. I know there's competition between groups, but for people to get this upset about this shit that isn't even fucking yours seems insane to me.