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samuelp
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Well, let my update you. Wages in Japan are about the same as in the US now. Times change. For a Japanese citizen living in Tokyo, paying 50,000 yen for a box set of DVDs is just as "expensive" as a percentage of their average income as someone in the US paying $500 for a box set. For someone outside of tokyo it's even worse, since wages tend to be lower. The high price for DVDs has nothing to do with Japanese having larger incomes than US citizens. It has everything to do with the structure of the collectors market and the market DVD purchasing is designed to appeal to. That's why DVD rentals are equivalently prices in Japan as the US, about $3 for a rental, but PURCHASING a DVD is nearly 2 times more expensive in Japan. It has to do with buying habits and cultural differences, NOT income differentials. |
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ConanSan
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fighterholic
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Nice, very nice. Thanks for the update. Just keep to the JET program and you'll be doing fine. I never said though that DVD prices are because of people and their income. I said that the economy of Japan is such that people can afford to buy them. But don't worry, I'll be joining you over there soon. And I won't care about pricing. |
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CCSYueh
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What bootlegs you watching (or smoking or inhaling) I've seen a decent number of bootlegs. One of the ways they say one can catch a bootleg is the quality of the packaging is fuzzier. And one has to love Japanese translated into Chinese translated into English (Because we all know dying people do so much better when told "Cheer Up!" or that the most vile threat one can hurl at a hero is "I shall retard you!") I just don't see people defending this guy Come one, when we hear of some fool dying doing something stupid, we all comment on it proving Darwin's theory & move on. For all the insistance on a criminal's part that they didn't know it was wrong, what part of copying something that has what I assume is the Japanese equivalent of our FBI warning somewhere on the package ranks this guy any pity. Whether one agrees with a law or not, the law is the law & violating the law has consequences. How long are people going to drag the RIAA suing housewives over songs their kids download over anything remotely involving copying material? Are parents not supposed to control their children? If those same children decided to spray paint racist slurs all over City Hall, society is just supposed to say neither the children nor the parents should recompense the city for clean-up? If your neighbor's child glues your kitty's face to the sidewalk, wouldn't you expect the parents to fork over something toward the vet bill? (We had some kids do that to a cat in our county about 10 yrs ago). If your neighbor's making meth in the garage & his place blows up seriously damaging yours, you wouldn't care? Yeah, right. But he is just some poor hick probably using ordinary equipment. No fancy devices. Makes it ok, doesn't it? Supply & demand. People want meth. Someone has to make it. Just because your neighbor's inept, it's not his fault. Just like this guy getting caught. It's not his fault. |
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doctordoom85
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Touche. TBH, I was pretty tired (and in full sarcasm mode, in case the original post didn't make it obvious), and another forum had a "what anime could Jesus and Hitler agree on watching together?" topic (random I know), so I had him on the mind. |
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Mohawk52
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JINROH
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Its regular people that can help stop this shit.I have personally reported people like this,and know legal action has been taken against them,you just dont hear about it very often in the news. It does help.I think over time we will start to see more reports like this,over there and over here in NA. |
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Teriyaki Terrier
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Honestly, its better than doing nothing. Action speaks louder than words. At least some action was taken, rather than let this continue for several more years or so. |
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KAtchan15
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Doctordoom could've phrased his sentence differently, while viewing his opinion at the same time. Seems to me like everyone's just attacking Onsokumaru ... telling him that he's wrong. Just let him say what he wants. =.= [Onsokumaru is a sweet, shy and intellectual guy, you guys don't even know him.] Last edited by KAtchan15 on Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:16 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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braves
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How is Freedom of Speech being jeopardized here? Just like he has the right to say what he wants, we have the right to respond right back.
Not always.*
Well, maybe he could come here and explain himself. But calling people like this "brave" is ridiculous. *No. I'm not comparing killing a human to pirating anime. |
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ZZalapski
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You're conflating attacking someone and attacking someone's opinions. He could be the reincarnation of Gandhi for all we care; it doesn't change the fact that him calling DVD pirates "brave" is misguided, to say the least. He's free to throw that weak stuff around anywhere, but to not expect any pushback from an informed crowd like this is a bit much. This isn't Romper Room. |
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KAtchan15
Posts: 460 Location: NYC |
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Also, you would think that after the first five people who went against him, people would stop. To me, it just seems that everyone who states an immoral opinion gets questioned as to why he stated what he did and gets overly penalized for doing so. You can say he's wrong, but talking about this any further is pointless. There're always going to be people who think differently than others, and questioning their beliefs or proving them wrong doesn't really help.
Similar to me, he means what he says and he says what he means, it's as simple as that. He said what he said, you won't change his mind by lecturing him. Last edited by KAtchan15 on Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:13 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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SeinenAi
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Ok so like...$10...$15 then. |
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egoist
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It's just too sad to have to see the law wasting their time (and our money) punishing such passive crimes, really.
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Kireek
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Hey I might start one up myself because instead of being arrested ill profit off it and get a 4 million investment on top of it! (No I wont really but I could see that being the type of message it sends out........Green light everyone) |
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