A few days later, the comic had been downloaded 1600 times through Demonoid alone, ranking alongside Batman and The Walking Dead Gordon Mclean writes
"This has blown my mind, to be honest I knew we'd made a good comic, but to see it become so popular so quickly is crazy I would've loved those 1600 sales,[...]
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Justice League #1 by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, with midnight parties across the country and acres of publicity.
But two hours before the midnight launch on the East Coast, copies could be downloaded across the internet, held by file transfer services Wupload and Filesonic, and then torrented through sites such as Demonoid One file is[...]
On his blog, Dylan Horrocks celebrates the fact that his comic from the nineties, Pickle, has been scanned and uploaded, available to torrent illegally via link propogation website Demonoid.
I am, of course, delighted, and wish to thank whoever uploaded it (not to mention whoever went to all the trouble of scanning it in the[...]
Posted earlier today at bittorrent site Demonoid, famous and longstanding comic book scanner, and illegal uploader stated that he was retiring from the practice.
With three years and over two thousand complete and illegally uploaded scans to his record,that represents tens of millions of dollars of comics read for free without the owner and/or publisher's permission[...]