What Motivates The Manga Scanners?

With not one but two declarations that failed artists work at McDonald's, I'm not certain how accurate a picture we're getting through this article's depiction of the cutthroat nature of the manga market, but the step-back nature of the question as to what motivates people to anonymously scan in pages of a public work without permission to do so is one that bears repeating. Not in an "inscrutable mysteries of the universe" way -- it's not hard to make a list of why people might do this -- but more as a way to keep in mind that motivations may be different than what we'd assume from reading an article about their being arrested for it.

Speaking of manga, while it's certainly worth noting all that's worth noting about the forthcoming Japanese government prize of foreign manga, the "Nobel Prize" comparison seems kind of not useful to me. Admittedly, no one's making fun of it, at least not that I've seen.
 
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