Digital information is ever expanding and with it we are also seeing an increase in digital piracy. Manga is also an expanding medium that has seen an increased interest throughout the years, both by fans of manga but also by academic institutions. Fans of manga however feel that their need for manga is not being met by libraries and take it into their own hands to create the resources that they need. Scanlation is a community consisting of fans of manga that create and share translations of manga chapters unauthorized online. Our goal with this study is to provide a deeper understanding of the scanlation community by analyzing its resource dependence. The study is based on three digital interviews with three scanlators representing their own separate scanlation groups that we are analyzing as organizations with the help of the theory of resource dependence. What we discovered was that these three scanlators and their groups were highly dependent on other groups to attain resources that they need called raws and they were also strongly dependent on the website called MangaDex to gain information about the resources they need. Websites such as MangaDex protected the scanlation groups from needing to deal with copyright infringement on their own, but the website was also a tool to uphold rules set up within the scanlation community itself.