User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Animated Goodness/@comment-28288412-20160605012137/@comment-25936766-20160605232335

Now you're just demonizing the whole thing. Scanlations do not steal and plagiarize. The credits are all still given to the artist, the only credits the translation team gets it's in the actual translation, which is literally all the "manipulation" that they do to the manga. Hell, 99% of translation teams ask readers to support the artist.

Yes, some may put their own mark, yes some ask for money, but those are a very small minority. Not a reason to judge them all.