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List of affected manga from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mangadex/comments/1kmzg9q/list_of_manga_affected_by_the_dmca_takedown_to/
Mangadex will release an official list soon (?).
[Update]
A reddit user compiled a sorted spreadsheet without duplicates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vxvAHxmLLgAEEq-jWbDw5fxHMdz1N_PNWe3OPXtrin0/edit?gid=0#gid=0
I hope this is the only instance of a takedown of this magnitude for a while, but I fear the publishers are now smelling the blood in the water now that the Mangadex team have folded to pressure once. Worst case scenario they get repeated takedowns and vanish over time, or shut down like Batoto. I guess this will just repeat the cycle of; community manga site gets popular -> popular community site gets taken down -> surge in use of aggregators -> aggregators increase ads -> community gathers around new popular site. Rinse and repeat, as manga publishers refuse realize what Gabe Newell has known for decades, piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.
I mean, it’s not like MD team stood up to DMCA claims before. They were always willing to oblige whenever a license holder requested them to remove series they’re responsible for or post the links to official releases.
This one is simply the biggest one yet.
Edit: It also doesn’t help that this will push people to sites that could not care less about DMCAs or linking to official sources. I feel like this will only work against the publishers in the long run.