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NEWS: Bandai: Do Not Fansub Ghost in the Shell Film

....wait, it's not a recent performance, is it?

FCC only regulates Tv and radio Broadcasting not DvD's or CD's.
There is an org. can't remember the name that does try to impose edited lyrics for cd's but as far as I know not DVD's just thought I would point that out

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It's been something of a contentious year for fans and Bandai Entertainment with certain sticking points coming up, between choices pushed down on them from Japan to problematic discs. While they are being reactive and proactive on their disc problems now, a new wrinkle has hit in that it has been confirmed by representatives from Bandai Entertainment that there will not be a replacement program for those who bought the Zeta Gundam box set. Replacement program? For? Well, when Bandai Entertainment put out the double disc sets earlier this year after the full box set had come out, they had put together a more accurate and faithful subtitle track for the Japanese language track. This cleaned up a lot of the problems in the translation which while not 100% dubtitled was fairly close in a lot of scenes. The decision has been made however to not provide replacements for those that have the original box set with the inaccurate subtitles.

That's sure to earn the fans' trust At least fansubbers will release a v2 if their releases have serious problems.

Ergo, if you don't like how they dubb or sub a title, go and work for them.

Therefore, through legal action, Bandai Entertainmen, Inc and Manga Entertainment can file suit for up to and including $250,000 in puenitive damages.

Reguardless of what the fansub community does to the anime fandom. It is copyright infringment to distribute an intelestual proporty without written concent from the people who hold the license. Therefore, through legal action, Bandai Entertainmen, Inc and Manga Entertainment can file suit for up to and including $250,000 in puenitive damages.

Ergo, if you don't like how they dubb or sub a title, go and work for them.

I may not like that, but I do support the copyright law.

Of course the problem with that course of action is that threatening the people who keep your company afloat is not good. Try it sometime, go set up 2 lemonade stands with your neighbor and then hit every customer who gets their lemonade from him with a wooden plank.

People don't really care that they were in the wrong when a million dollar company sues them for 1785 times the cost of whatever they watched.

Of course the problem with that course of action is that threatening the people who keep your company afloat is not good. Try it sometime, go set up 2 lemonade stands with your neighbor and then hit every customer who gets their lemonade from him with a wooden plank.

People don't really care that they were in the wrong when a million dollar company sues them for 1785 times the cost of whatever they watched.

Sentios wrote:

Of course the problem with that course of action is that threatening the people who keep your company afloat is not good. Try it sometime, go set up 2 lemonade stands with your neighbor and then hit every customer who gets their lemonade from him with a wooden plank. People don't really care that they were in the wrong when a million dollar company sues them for 1785 times the cost of whatever they watched.

I bet you didn't think about what you just wrote there did you? Try this; Go to your neighbours lemonade stand and steal his jug of lemonade, then add some extra ingredience of your own to make it look like yours, then set up your own stand and just give it away to his potential customers. So who just sank his business then? And how can threating you with court action going to harm him if he will get you to stop stealing his jug of lemonade? Are you going to counter sue him for suing you? Oh I got it, you will not buy his lemonade, that will really show him. Oh yeah that'll work! (not) That is what the act of fansubbing is all about mate. They're the bloody pirates, not the saving navy.

I think it is more like the following situation:
A national lemonade company comes to the town and buys the only lemonade licence. They start selling the lemonade to the denizens of the town. Somehow someone steals the knowledge of how to make the lemonade and now a kid on the street starts to give it away for free. This is obviously going to hurt the national lemonade company and they sue the kid. Don't you think that many people will support the poor kid, even those who bought the legal lemonade? I do.

in the meantime i've decided to not buy bandai's DVD but buy nihongo ver from Production I.G

I was reading through the post in Anime News Network's forums and found that the majority of posters there were strongly convinced of one thing: fansubs are irrelevant*.

The main argument for this is that there are lots of anime licensing companies in America now, thus meaning that most shows are going to be licensed anyway. Therefore, why bother? Fansubbing's goal of promoting awareness of anime has been acheived so all fansubbers should pack up and retire.

Another view often bandied about in those forums is that the current crop of fansubbers are egomaniacal fame bandits bent on making a name for themselves by subbing the most popular show in the least possible time. Every feature of fansubs nowadays, from karaoke effects to the presence of logos and even group names/credits in the AVIs, are proof-positive of this, according to this viewpoint.

In short, there is a question of whether there should or should not be any more fansubs floating about not just in ANN, but sometimes here as well, as seen in threads like the Hacking and Su-Yu threads.

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* Actually, the ANN forumers are more of the opinion that digital fansubs specifically are evil and irrelevant, but this is because they're mostly old-time VHS fansubbers who are, in my opinion, largely bitter that the whole "To get a fansub you must find a well-connected otaku and bow to him" system of their time has been replaced and that digital fansubbing has made many of them irrelevant. Nevertheless, they try to be consistent and therefore declared fansubs to be similarly irrelevant for the reasons mention in the main text.

I bet you didn't think about what you just wrote there did you? Try this; Go to your neighbours lemonade stand and steal his jug of lemonade, then add some extra ingredience of your own to make it look like yours, then set up your own stand and just give it away to his potential customers. So who just sank his business then? And how can threating you with court action going to harm him if he will get you to stop stealing his jug of lemonade? Are you going to counter sue him for suing you? Oh I got it, you will not buy his lemonade, that will really show him. Oh yeah that'll work! (not) That is what the act of fansubbing is all about mate. They're the bloody pirates, not the saving navy.

Now see here's where your assumption goes off course, I never said steal lemonade from the neighbor. In truth to get free lemonade all you have to do is steal lemons from a store.