Akira's Read me:
無断での転載/転売等の行為は禁じます。
The act of reprint/resale without permission is prohibited.
特に外国の方によるものが激しいので注意してください。
Especially, those who are foreigners, so please take heed.
あまりにも酷い場合再びパスワードを掛けることになります。
A password will be implemented again if there are too many violations.
In Akira's BBS:
もっとも、私の作品は海外じゃ０円の価値らしいですが。（ﾑｷｲｲｲｲ）
Although, my works seem to be worth 0 yen to (people from) overseas. (Mukiiii)
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Originally Posted by Guado
I think he's racist because he is using the actions of the few to condemn the masses. On his deviantart site he said he refuses to sell his work to foreigners because of pirating.
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I personally would have to wait and see what his future action entail. He said he won't sell doujinshi to foreigners
for a while. I don't know if that's just a facade, and actually means that he won't sell his works ever again to a foreigner or not.
Also, I just checked, and he is still selling the works on English DL Site, so I'm going to postpone the matter regarding the infallibility of your judgment on Akira.
Although, when I think about it, a lot of people would fall under racism based on your racism criteria for punishing a whole based on the actions of a few. For example, banning IP ranges from services like AOL because some of their users causes a big, fat stink.
Now on to my personal opinion, I think playing the racism card was a pretty stupid banner to hide behind. Since, this is more of an act of "Strangers" vs. "Someone I know". As I pointed out before, he sells this stuff at Comiket71 where he pretty much sees all of his customers face to face, now if you have evidence of him refusing to sell something to a foreigner for a lack of reason other than the person's ethnicity at comiket, then you'd have a case for racism.