Please explain the copyright situation better here.  Are there artists and designers who would be willing to publish their original work in a new medium (on-line) and be willing to get paid potentially with Bitcoins, or is this merely somebody who has copies of the manga and has posted scans of this stuff?

The "legal" aspect is what I'm trying to get a handle on, and where the "copyright infringement" comes from.  If a site is "illegal" and "infringing copyright", it sounds like this is something that the Bitcoins aspect is irrelevant on.  If this is merely trying to provide a revenue model for artists that want to get outside of the normal publishing model, there is certainly something that Bitcoins can get involved with that can make them some serious money.