On Friday, November 23rd, “Deicist,” the moderator of Comicsearch, another site that hosts BitTorrent trackers, committed a grand act of cock-waving and wrote Marvel an open letter about the benefits of allowing the piracy and distribution of scanned comics to continue. Marvel did not accept Deicist’s letter as a chance to reach out to the comic fans and embrace free distribution of copyrighted materials. Instead, a representative from Marvel contacted him and asked that Comicsearch remove the aforementioned BitTorrent trackers or face the consequences. Deicist removed them, but continued an exchange with the Marvel representative about the shortcomings of the publisher’s Digital Comics Unlimited (DCU) service and the applicability of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the United Kingdom, where Comicsearch is hosted. After a bit of back-and-forth, the Marvel representative told Deicist that if he continued to press the issue, other comic publishers would learn about the site. Deicist decided that Sweden sounded like a better place to host Comicsearch. Sometimes when you put a flower in the barrel of a gun, you get shot. (Full Article)
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Digital Comics
I will always prefer to get my comics from the store, something about actually holding the issue in my hand beats a computer screen, same with books. Still I found this article on mania.com interesting:
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My advisor is the head of the Digital Libraries Project and has created a type of html (if you will) to allow comics to be entered into databases and be scanned and searched digitally. Kinda like an e-book but better.
So right now, if you're looking for the X-Men comic where Logan says "BUB!" before turning and puching Sabertooth, you're pretty much SOL. What the CBML (comic-book markup langugage) does is create a background code that is searchable. Including descriptions of the images, panels and where the text appears and in what content. So Marvel could archive their comics and make them into a searchable database for users and archival purposes. It makes digital versions of comics much more dynamic.
It's pretty neat, even if I don't understand all the logistics. He spoke at ComicCon this year, which is pretty neat for us nerdy librarians ;)
Here's the page, I thought it was a bit up your alley :)
http://www.cbml.org/
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