I'm not getting money or making profits. I wouldn't out of principle.
That may be true and we nor you can prove nor disprove that, but your group gets paid by readmanga which your cleaner/leader revealed after everyone shitted on him over at reddit. Also what principles are you talking about? What you're and of course WE are doing is obviously illegal.
That being said, there is a selfish aspect. I, too, don't want my baby to be taken away.
Please don't act like this is your own series. Don't act like you are behind the art and content. Don't act like it was done by you. You are merely a scanlator. Know your place. If you're scanlating for e-peen instead of actual reason like simply liking a series or simply wanting to share it, so more people can enjoy it, you should really leave the scene. There are enough shit-tier watermarking cashgrabbing retards here already. Also there's no honor among thieves.
I still profusely urge readers to purchase the official version if they can, explicitly saying it's far better than my translation, of which I'm painfully aware. It may just be empty lip service, but I don't know what else I can do. I was naive to think people wouldn't bitch about not having their chapter at the earliest possible time (which they did) and that no other group would try to zero in. I'm in this for the long haul.
This is the one thing that was amazing about your group before the readmanga and overall shit you did. But saying on one hand that you still want to support Viz and releasing your version way before them on the other is cancerous. You either release is it whenever you want and stop pretending to support Viz or you release it after them and start to actually support (or rather inflict less damage to) them again.
Now that PM is out of the picture (for the time being), I don't have to rush as much. The quality should improve accordingly.
Your translations aren't even bad, just try to be less like mangastream. So stop with the unnecessary swearing as a form of localisation. It just deforms the characters.
Also yes, I'm a retarded anon from /a/. This is how we roll.