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Kit-Tsukasa
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As far as I'm concerned, Funimation is trying to draw government/media attention to the issue regarding piracy in the entertainment industry. Since Funimation is more involved in the "international" business they already have the short end of the stick and are more desperate in keeping their company afloat unlike others that produce the movies in the US.
I don't think this is an issue of whether Funimation learning their lesson or not anymore. I find it unrealistic that they would repeat this same "mistake" intentionally. Alternatively, they may be thinking "hey this is a non-animated title, maybe this lawsuit will actually go through properly unlike One Piece," and eventually work their way up the totem pole where anime eventually gets the same treatment. I find the latter issue a dumb idea though. On the other hand, if Funimation is going into this without learning their mistake and/or using the latter example I described above, I think they're just shooting themselves in the foot at this point. They're clearly the dominant retailer and licensing company in the US anime market at the moment, and I don't see why they're not capitalizing on it anymore. Heck, all the titles they picked up in the past few years have been backlogged in production while companies like Aniplex USA and Sentai/Section 23 are gradually increasing their library. If anything, Funimation is losing control of the market and becoming too greedy (or already have). Aniplex is beginning to gain control of big name titles now while Funimation continues to blindly choose. Sentai/Section 23 picks up the scraps but hey it works at the moment. |
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tuxedocat
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I'm guessing that Mr. Stone works on a contingency basis, and the cost to Funimation is basically the filing fees? Maybe these mass lawsuits are necessary to discovery in some way.
This seems to be Mr. Stone's specific business. I would guess it is fairly profitable, or he wouldn't keep doing it. It's a win-win for all the business interests concerned if that is the case. Mr. Stone gets his (possibly considerable) cut, and Funimation keeps their licensing partners pacified. Last edited by tuxedocat on Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:05 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Ojamajo LimePie
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No, the lawyer actually worked for porn companies. One of his tactics for getting people to pay up for copyright infringement was threatening to publicly out the person being sued as gay if they didn't settle out of court. There were records showing downloads of gay porn that Stone could use as blackmail. I'd say that's pretty immoral. |
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maxxjulie
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i thought the same thing the other poster did, that it was over the first Ip Man movie. It's a really famous and perhaps best martial arts movie ever made. The one they are suing over isn't anything close to it. It's got Ip Man in the title, but it's mediocre and probably didn't make Funimation much money at all. Hence the lawsuits to make more of a profit. Losers. |
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Otaku Teahouse
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I don't know how many times I have to repeat this, but I have to because Funi has misunderstood what the movie is and made a misleading ad for it. This Ip Man movie is in no way associated with the Donnie Yen Ip Man movies. It is not a "3" nor is it a prequel. Sure, it is about the early life of the same person that Donnie Yen's movies are based on, but this is a completely different movie than those. This one was made to capitalize on the Donnie Yen movies' success and was released about the same time as Ip Man 2. |
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MaxSouth
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the title of the article maybe fits very well indeed since it is about "intellectual property man", ie Funimation lawyer...
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Daemonblue
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I believe they meant $150,000 per person, as current copyright laws in the US allow for damages between $750 and $150,000 per infringement, which is why you see ridiculous rulings such as that one mother having been ordered to pay $1.9m for 24 songs. In case you're wondering, that plus the "legal extortion" as one British politician put it is why a lot of people see it as an unethical approach. Lest we forget, the tech used to track down these infringers is no too different from that used to blame a fax machine for copyright infringement iirc, it was either that or a photocopier, but one of the two. |
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Sunday Silence
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Try and do a little research first before saying something. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Man |
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Kruszer
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Guess they didn't learn after the first time they tried doing something like this.
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enurtsol
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Who cares! It's not anime! Live-action pirates deserve it! We wouldn't blink an eye if that was a Hollywood movie.
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MaxSouth
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Try comprehending emoticon signs before saying something. |
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MrHatandClogs
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Sorry but, you're wrong. Two of my friends have been fined thousands of dollars by Universal Pictures for seeding "Hollywood Movies". I blinked pretty hard when that happened. The FUNi thing is, is none of those people probably even knew that this movie was licensed by FUNi. |
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mewpudding101
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...Not again.
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SaiyanHero16
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Why does this sound familiar? I wonder...
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kinbalk
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Haha. Well thats for letting me know that. I'd Google that to try and find info on it myself but I'm pretty sure no matter how hardcore the safesearch settings are, I'd end up in a world I don't care to be in. |
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