Even better, get rid of every way to watch anime, and make the only way to watch anime (Lets say it's impossible to pirate.) through Blu-ray imports with English subtitles. It's only $350 a box set.
Let's see how he'd deal with that.
Honestly DA, it's pathetic. You're in NORTH AMERICA, where anime is stupidly cheap (Many are arguing it's underpriced.), and you have legal streams everywhere. There is no excuse to pirate things that you can very well watch. I have no sympathy for people involved in that lawsuit Toei Animation filed againt 860 some pirates for this reason. They were downloading legal stream rips of FUNimation's simulcast for One Piece, and they were all AMERICANS, not Europeans, not Australians, AMERICANS who have so much One Piece online legally for free. There was no excuse, and as such, there should be no sympathy for them.
BTW DA, you could give FUNimation like $7 a month for their elite subscription service. More dubs that don't get taken down for a while, and in HD with no ads.
TheBigOFan72 wrote:Even better, get rid of every way to watch anime, and make the only way to watch anime (Lets say it's impossible to pirate.) through Blu-ray imports with English subtitles. It's only $350 a box set.
Let's see how he'd deal with that.
Honestly DA, it's pathetic. You're in NORTH AMERICA, where anime is stupidly cheap (Many are arguing it's underpriced.), and you have legal streams everywhere. There is no excuse to pirate things that you can very well watch. I have no sympathy for people involved in that lawsuit Toei Animation filed againt 860 some pirates for this reason. They were downloading legal stream rips of FUNimation's simulcast for One Piece, and they were all AMERICANS, not Europeans, not Australians, AMERICANS who have so much One Piece online legally for free. There was no excuse, and as such, there should be no sympathy for them.
BTW DA, you could give FUNimation like $7 a month for their elite subscription service. More dubs that don't get taken down for a while, and in HD with no ads.
I dunno know -- you sue somebody then they tell all their irl friends & all their fb friends.....is that a good business decision?
The entire economy based off of intellectual property enforcement is getting undermined by the open source culture of the internet. They sound frankly like those music labels who were suing ppl a few yrs back over downloading -- it won't gain them any new customers & will only #### the sued ones & all their friends off won't it?
TheBigOFan72 wrote:Even better, get rid of every way to watch anime, and make the only way to watch anime (Lets say it's impossible to pirate.) through Blu-ray imports with English subtitles. It's only $350 a box set.
Let's see how he'd deal with that.
Honestly DA, it's pathetic. You're in NORTH AMERICA, where anime is stupidly cheap (Many are arguing it's underpriced.), and you have legal streams everywhere. There is no excuse to pirate things that you can very well watch. I have no sympathy for people involved in that lawsuit Toei Animation filed againt 860 some pirates for this reason. They were downloading legal stream rips of FUNimation's simulcast for One Piece, and they were all AMERICANS, not Europeans, not Australians, AMERICANS who have so much One Piece online legally for free. There was no excuse, and as such, there should be no sympathy for them.
BTW DA, you could give FUNimation like $7 a month for their elite subscription service. More dubs that don't get taken down for a while, and in HD with no ads.
NO MONEY.
TheBigOFan72 wrote:Even better, get rid of every way to watch anime, and make the only way to watch anime (Lets say it's impossible to pirate.) through Blu-ray imports with English subtitles. It's only $350 a box set.
Let's see how he'd deal with that.
Honestly DA, it's pathetic. You're in NORTH AMERICA, where anime is stupidly cheap (Many are arguing it's underpriced.), and you have legal streams everywhere. There is no excuse to pirate things that you can very well watch. I have no sympathy for people involved in that lawsuit Toei Animation filed againt 860 some pirates for this reason. They were downloading legal stream rips of FUNimation's simulcast for One Piece, and they were all AMERICANS, not Europeans, not Australians, AMERICANS who have so much One Piece online legally for free. There was no excuse, and as such, there should be no sympathy for them.
BTW DA, you could give FUNimation like $7 a month for their elite subscription service. More dubs that don't get taken down for a while, and in HD with no ads.
I alread bought CODE GEASS R2 for $25
and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for anything else
westpark wrote:
TheBigOFan72 wrote:Even better, get rid of every way to watch anime, and make the only way to watch anime (Lets say it's impossible to pirate.) through Blu-ray imports with English subtitles. It's only $350 a box set.
Let's see how he'd deal with that.
Honestly DA, it's pathetic. You're in NORTH AMERICA, where anime is stupidly cheap (Many are arguing it's underpriced.), and you have legal streams everywhere. There is no excuse to pirate things that you can very well watch. I have no sympathy for people involved in that lawsuit Toei Animation filed againt 860 some pirates for this reason. They were downloading legal stream rips of FUNimation's simulcast for One Piece, and they were all AMERICANS, not Europeans, not Australians, AMERICANS who have so much One Piece online legally for free. There was no excuse, and as such, there should be no sympathy for them.
BTW DA, you could give FUNimation like $7 a month for their elite subscription service. More dubs that don't get taken down for a while, and in HD with no ads.
I dunno know -- you sue somebody then they tell all their irl friends & all their fb friends.....is that a good business decision?
The entire economy based off of intellectual property enforcement is getting undermined by the open source culture of the internet. They sound frankly like those music labels who were suing ppl a few yrs back over downloading -- it won't gain them any new customers & will only #### the sued ones & all their friends off won't it?
If their friends were not buying FUNimation products then it's not really an issue for them. If they were then they'll lose some customers but they'll get paid the lawsuit money to make up for it.
Any of that person's friend's who has common sense know's FUNimation has the legal right to do it.
There are only two ways to deal with piracy. Compete with a product people are willing to get legitmently or try to stop it. FUNimation does both these things with their simulcasted anime such as One Piece. When merely competing with it doesn't cut down enough on piracy and ad revenue and potential sales are lost they turn to prevention methods.
What would you have them do?
They're already letting people watch the show for free in America. American's have no good reason to steal subtitled episodes of One Piece (or dubbed for that matter).
To add insult to injury sometimes the pirated downloads are rips of the video FUNimation put up themselves, not some fansubs which are "fans" claim have "superior translations" and also have higher quality HD video. I know people like things in high quality, I sure do but FUNimation's uploads of One Piece look plenty good to watch.
So what would you have them do?
It's a nice ideal to think letting people steal something will eventually lead to sales but it rarely does. So the industry is just going to keep losing money to piracy.
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