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MidoriUma
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Well, besides having friends in a country that broadcasts it. |
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mdo7
Posts: 6248 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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uh dude, you got Crunchyroll (which is avaliable in Canada for a long time), so how can you not be aware of this? Also I send you a PM (Private message), I want to talk to you about some of your previous posts and your way of thinking. |
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americananimotk
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I prefer to own the anime I watch, so downloading anime onto my hard drive is pretty much a temporary means anyway. Not to mention it tends take up a lot of space.
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phifedawg
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so do you think the industry, the people who actually have a real stake in this, are idiots? if piracy was good they would be encouraging it, or turning a blind eye. they wouldn't be spending time and money fighting it.
you apologists always roll out the "middleman" line. dont you realize that even within Japan people get paid to publish and distribute things they didn't create? thats how the entertainment industry works. |
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enurtsol
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If I was the industry, I'd only put in the series as lowest money as could be afforded, then charge up the wazoo on the merchandise........... Then it wouldn't matter as much if they pirate the series since it won't cost that much, while making the money back thru the merch and then some........... Hmmmmmmm............... |
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EmbraceMe
Posts: 2013 Location: Growing old and jaded. |
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That reminds me of this TED Talks video I watched a while back about piracy; it doesn't necessarily apply to anime but talks about the misuse of statistics to propagate an agenda. Not that I mean that this is the case here. As for my thoughts on the article, I have a complicate stance on piracy with the whole idea that if a show isn't licensed at my location and I do pirate it, I'm not hurting the market because there isn't a market for the show here [yet]. But then there's this whole other ordeal of me still pirating (but not archiving) shows even when they are licensed here -- I still maintain a subscription to the site that did license the show, though. I do support the industry though by mainly purchasing figurines not that this justifies me pirating; it's just that I'm not a total leech. |
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SquadmemberRitsu
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Piracy has had literally no effect on how much I spend on anime. It has had an effect on the sort of anime I buy (If I download a show and think it's shit I won't buy and vice versa) but I still have a CR membership and buy anime on a regular basis.
I buy most of my anime locally and I respect the people who make those shows available to me. I buy it first and foremost for my own personal viewing so half the time I don't even think about whether or not it supports the industry. But honestly I don't see how that makes me a bad person. Why would I want to spend hundreds of dollars on overpriced Blu-rays with no subtitles or dub? The fact that they've launched this campaign is proof that the money I'm giving to them through Crunchyroll and whatnot does matter (If only a little bit) contrary to what many freeloaders had tried to make me believe with the statistics they pulled from their ass to paint CR as the bad guys. I think the sort of people who haven't bought anything anime related in their life and watch everything illegally probably need to stop what they're doing especially if they think they can justify it morally. That being said I don't think you can even dispute that piracy has helped the anime industry more than it's hurt. After all, Crunchyroll got its start charging people to view illegal fansubbed anime that were given away for free by other people (Which is the worst kind of pirate). They've long since gone legit but if they hadn't done that in the first place I doubt they would have gotten to where they are today. |
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sunflower
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Looks like all the anti-pirate women are in the back by the food- they're probably just out there from the kitchen filling up the trays. I guess that means we girls don't really need to worry our pretty little heads about the message. Good to know, good to know.
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revolutionotaku
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I guess the downloaders went insane over the long waiting times. |
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MidoriUma
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That's kind of sexist... |
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Shadowrun20XX
Posts: 1935 Location: Vegas |
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Welcome to the majority.
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kevinx59
Posts: 959 Location: In sunny California |
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I don't care about any of those characters, so looks like I don't have to listen.
Im kidding, I buy series I like if the price is good. Good luck I guess? Seems like an impossible battle. |
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TarsTarkas
Posts: 5821 Location: Virginia, United States |
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Torrenting isn't the only means of downloading anime. So it cannot be used as a means of measurement for piracy. |
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