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NEWS: FUNimation Sues CA Retail Sites over Alleged Bootlegs

ReiClone88 wrote:

jr0904 wrote: It's better late than never.Now if they would go after illegal streaming sites and those video sites like veoh and youtube which has dub epsiodes of claymore and those fansubers,then they'll seriously send a message cause fansubs sucks like hell. Also, I'll gladly prefer the 4kids versions over fansubs any day of the week cause some are actually good. I find that statement to be quite hypocritical coming from someone with a Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS avatar when the first season won't be released in R1 until December.

I've never seen the series.Only the h-doujinshi of them.Just because i have the av for it doesn't mean i've actually seen it.I'm waiting for the dub versions to come out.Already preodered the Box Set for Season 1.

Also "Redhandgrunt" You may not forgive them,but i do cause

[/b]#1) "It ain't their fault.They had to comply with the US's FCC rules and regulations OR risk getting fined and/or shut downed and their CEO's can end up in federal Jail.Cause in an old article on the site,that CEO from Media Blasters admited that he's a chicken ass with with comes to going to jail,and the FCC is doing this "in order to protecting the children from TV Violence", which is so dumb,so i blame the US gov't for these dumb ass regulations and not 4kids who's just obeying the govt[/b]

[/b]And #2) they did well with both the pokemon and yugioh series so the're not that bad,and i liked their versions of one piece. Sure they made a mess of Tokyo Mew Mew,but as a guy who watches english dubs only, it's ok alongs as the series is supported legaly. And besides Compared to what Pionneer did to the dub versions of sailormoon super S and Ikkitousen,and what viz media did to Rannma 1/2,and what Adv films did to the uncut versions of Saint Seiya, the 4kids dub was better than those disasters anyday. AM i wrong?[/b]

jr0904 wrote:

Also "Redhandgrunt" You may not forgive them,but i do cause [/b]#1) "It ain't their fault.They had to comply with the US's FCC rules and regulations OR risk getting fined and/or shut downed and their CEO's can end up in federal Jail.Cause in an old article on the site,that CEO from Media Blasters admited that he's a chicken ass with with comes to going to jail,and the FCC is doing this "in order to protecting the children from TV Violence", which is so dumb,so i blame the US gov't for these dumb ass regulations and not 4kids who's just obeying the govt[/b] [/b]And #2) they did well with both the pokemon and yugioh series so the're not that bad,and i liked their versions of one piece. Sure they made a mess of Tokyo Mew Mew,but as a guy who watches english dubs only, it's ok alongs as the series is supported legaly. And besides Compared to what Pionneer did to the dub versions of sailormoon super S and Ikkitousen,and what viz media did to Rannma 1/2,and what Adv films did to the uncut versions of Saint Seiya, the 4kids dub was better than those disasters anyday. AM i wrong?[/b]

With all due respect. Yeah. You are. You aren't afraid of violence when you replace all of the music in a show with techno. You aren't afraid of violence when you turn a black character white. I could go on and on but this topic is not about One Piece so this is the last I will say on the matter.

I am glad that they finally got busted since I saw that they had booleged items, but I want to knwo what is going to happen to all those people that had preorders with them. I know for a fact that they take your money for pre-orders before they get them in.

They are required by law to refund any pre-orders that did not ship.Of course, if they declare bankruptcy, the refunds might never arrive.

-t

Most of them kept true to the original Japanese version, despite their editing (I don't even think Ranma 1/2 was edited...but I could be wrong).

tygerchickchibi wrote:

Most of them kept true to the original Japanese version, despite their editing (I don't even think Ranma 1/2 was edited...but I could be wrong).

The visual edits in the retail versions of Ranma 1/2 were for translation purposes (replacing Kanji with English text) only, but Viz also did a broadcast version at the same time for CBS (and may the edited version never be spoken of again).

Those awesome discounts, however, were probably made possible thanks to profits derived from the bootlegs; they can't cost much to manufacture or obtain, and selling enough of them for $20.00 would probably bring in enough surplus to yield and even break after slashing the hell out of the prices of legitimate R1 merchandise. In doing so, they would have been able to attract both new customers who didn't know any better and some returning customers informed enough to avoid said bootlegs, relying primarily on the former to stay in business. If that were the case, then you and I would have been little more than the company's leeches, getting cheap R1 DVDs paid for in part by customers shelling out money for bootlegs.

Yes. This is definitely a good first step; personally I think taking out the bootleggers should be a bigger priority than the subbers who don't honor licenses.

The visual edits in the retail versions of Ranma 1/2 were for translation purposes (replacing Kanji with English text) only, but Viz also did a broadcast version at the same time for CBS (and may the edited version never be spoken of again).

Do you have some proof about that edited airing on CBS? Because I was already pretty active in anime circles by the time the first Viz releases happened, and this is the first I am hearing of any Stateside broadcast of Ranma 1/2. It would've been gigantic news back in 1995.

I don't remember where I read it, but a deal between Viz and CBS was established that CBS handled the US theatrical releases of the movies and Viz made the series available to CBS.
The network only ordered the first 30 episodes, which they then decided against airing nationwide. A few affiliates ran the episodes, but (if I remember correctly) it was only about a half dozen stations that aired them.

Lupin_IV wrote:

I don't remember where I read it, but a deal between Viz and CBS was established that CBS handled the US theatrical releases of the movies and Viz made the series available to CBS. The network only ordered the first 30 episodes, which they then decided against airing nationwide. A few affiliates ran the episodes, but (if I remember correctly) it was only about a half dozen stations that aired them.

As CBS is not, and has never been, in the theatrical release business, this story sounds dubious at best. The idea of CBS even considering airing a nudity-laden cartoon as intensely Japanese as Ranma 1/2 is already a ludicrous one. You're going to need to find a source to quote if this is to be believed.