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NEWS: Funimation Subpoenas Cloud Hosting Platform Over Copyright Infringement of One Piece Anime

If they have time to sue every offender here and there, then they could've use that time to just do better for the sake of those who pays.

a waste of everyone's time, money and resources.

Seriously, this whole DMCA thing needs to be stopped! DMCA must be abolished for good!

Saku-dono wrote:

If they have time to sue every offender here and there, then they could've use that time to just do better for the sake of those who pays.

They absolutely have to spend time and money on going after pirates because they would lose their rights from the Japanese owners. How many times does this have to be stated for people in this thread to comprehend? They're not doing it because they're sitting around bored and actively trying to slack off on their video player like you are trying to imply. That's ridiculous.

Raikuro wrote:

Saku-dono wrote: If they have time to sue every offender here and there, then they could've use that time to just do better for the sake of those who pays. They absolutely have to spend time and money on going after pirates because they would lose their rights from the Japanese owners. How many times does this have to be stated for people in this thread to comprehend? They're not doing it because they're sitting around bored and actively trying to slack off on their video player like you are trying to imply. That's ridiculous.

Another person who doesn't get a clear point. Yeah, sure, whatever dude. Goodluck to Funimation and those who supports them, I sure appreciate your eye for quality. And yeah, hope they manage to sue EVERY last one of those who pirates their stuff in the vast world of internet. Yeah, I'm being sarcastic here.

I don't support pirating. Never have, never will, but for those of us who have been fans of anime for more or less 20 years we know that most "legit " streaming sites started life as "illegit" streaming sites from basements, bedrooms, or uni student dorms so it's not that hard, or expensive to set up a decent enough site. The expensive part is to get to show titles through legit licenses from the originators, but if the legit streamers' quality of service is only as good as, or worse than the illegit sites then I can understand why some will use them instead of paying for the same quality. I don't agree with it, but I understand it.

Personally I hate Funimation because of their data breech which exposed customer info (of which mine was included), and I have yet to receive any notification from Funimation about it. If I hadn't seen the notice here at ANN about it, I still wouldn't know.

Almost any company can get hacked if someone really wants to get in -- but if it happens you tell your customers yourself that it happened. Otherwise customers can't take appropriate mitigation efforts themselves.

Another person who doesn't get a clear point. Yeah, sure, whatever dude.

regardless, its one of the reasons why I wasn't too happy when the series was no longer going to be shown on adult swim anymore. all that really did is to give sites like that to post the English dub version via illegal downloading and streaming. they should have gone to the paramount war arc immediately or even the new world arc instead of doing the long ass thriller bark arc (which was the least liked arcs, to begin with)

The amount of people on her tooting their own horn about openly pirating is just weird. I feel like it's such a Don't ask Don't tell kinda thing you don't ask people if they do it and they don't ask you and we respect that fairly.

Lord Oink wrote:

Revolutionary wrote: I remember when the Simulcast came around and people in the US were refusing to use it because of FUNimation translating the word 'nakama', because of the Toei logo, or because it wasn't super Blu-Ray 1080 quality (understand back then there was no paid HD version). These are not reasons to justify going to illegal methods but people did it anyway, and they always will find a reason to snub anything legal sites do so they can continue to download the most HD fansubs for free. Not wanting to pay for a subpar product seems perfectly reasonable to me. No one is under any obligation to support something just because it's the legal version when better alternatives exist.

What you've posted here is the very definition of false entitlement. Anime is a product. You are not entitled to it.

on these illegal streaming sites I think is a fun exercise in imagination.

I'm glad somebody is finally possibly going after KissAnime. I've worked with web companies before (and even worked on Digital Ocean servers), and I know that these sites can make a killing off of ad revenues combined with paid subscriptions. Actually, the fact that KissAnime is able to flagrantly offer subscriptions despite not owning the content, I think, is pretty head-scratching.

There is only one site that has done this, and that is Crunchyroll. That site had profits from its users even back then, so it had more capability to just turn into a legal site.

They are doing it because US intellectual property law requires them to sue anyone who violates their IP.

Concerning fair use, which usu. has 4 factors, sometimes a court may rule that situations like putting up a "One Piece" episode or movie onto YT qualifies as fair use.

Hey, we already have two people who know how to run Funimation's business better than they do. God I love the internet.

So this long history of events still can't be discussed reasonably...

What surprises me here is that the general ANN and Reddit rules are any mention of pirating/pirating sites,admission of pirating... usually results in a deleted post.

Now to get back to the topic, to follow Kikaioh, I hope Funi chops the head off of kissanime and cauterizes the stump so severely that other would-be pirates would be forced to use cell-phone vid, which would kill them eventually instead of getting theatrical HD quality from wherever they get it.

I've read most of the Copyright Act of 1976 and see no such requirement for copyrighted material. I believe that trademark holders have a stronger legal imperative to defend their marks from "dilution," but I'm not a lawyer, and trademark law is a world unto itself.