Viz Media took down MangaStream's Scanlation

As many avid JUMP series manga fans may have known already, MangaStream recently made an announcement that they will immediately cease scanlating Naruto, Bleach, One Piece and some other prominent shounen series, thanks to Viz Media. For more information, go to this link: VIZ Media Licensed Series Dropped. I find one sentence that really pawned, "So long as their product continues to be slow, awkward and inferior to something a ragtag group of nobodies can churn out in a few hours - fans will continue to look to scanlation groups and aggregators for their weekly fix.". OWNAGE! XD

That sentence had much truth in it. Considering that the Big Three were some of the mangas that were forced to be dropped, and with Viz sluggish translation and release, combined with the power and high demand of the fandom around the entire world, sooner or later someone would start getting the raws and get together with a group of translators and what the you know, a new scanlation group is born.

Viz Media could have made some sort of negotiation with MangaStream, instead of just blindly shutting them down. At the current time, MangaStream scanlation had been pretty decent, not to mention very fast. And, most importantly, they actually deleted the past chapters, leaving only few of the recent chapters to encourage readers to support the mangaka and buy the manga instead. So, in a way, they are kinda helping the manga industry and should be respected for their decision on deleting old chapters of the manga. Unfortunately, Viz could not see any of their effort. Pity. A partnership of some sort would have been very beneficial to both parties. Oh well, I wonder who is going to scanlate the new chapters from now.