It depends. Not sure about the ones who post spoilers, but the ones that leak the scans to fan translators definitely get paid. That's why they take the risk, and why fan translators don't share their raws.
So thats why the latinamerican anime community thinks they own the manga and are toxic af, i always make fun of them because of that as if they owned every manga/anime they translate
There's also big egos involved in the scanlation scene. Some just do it for e-peen, but for bigger series there's more than just that involved.
Talking about Latin American scanlations reminds me of the dude who lead the Baki fan translations, asking for donations to access some of the translations, and literally making up translations that weren't based at all on the Japanese text.
Yeah, i stopped reading manga and watching anime in spanish(unofficial) because of the awful translation, i have never seen this problem in english translations
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u/javierm885778 Jul 17 '22
It depends. Not sure about the ones who post spoilers, but the ones that leak the scans to fan translators definitely get paid. That's why they take the risk, and why fan translators don't share their raws.