I heard about this on another forum and they were very blaise about it. Some of them didn't even think that tracing was wrong. I couldn't believe what I was reading. If someone was copying my work--not that it would happen, I'm just saying if--I would first be flattered and then pissed. It would be a weird mix of those two emotions. Then I would sue them.
On the other forum, they were saying that the author of Bleach could sue Nick Simmons, but he wouldn't get very far. After all, Nick Simmons' daddy makes him nigh untouchable. Even if they did win the case, Nick Simmons himself wouldn't be hurt by it. The settlement wouldn't even put a chink in Gene Simmons' wealth. Even so, to just write off the whole situation just because Mr. Simmons' father is famous is beyond injustice.