[Lynk Former]

The reason I asked whether you read my earlier posts is because I've acknowledged quite openly that piracy in general is what gives life to anime outside of Japan, and is in fact needed for it to exist in the first place. I found it strange that I was being told the things I've already acknowledged in the first place.

However, while piracy is what gives anime life... pirates still rape and pillage... what makes you think that people don't abuse the system?


Okay I'll give an example of what I think is acceptable...

Let's take a company like Gonzo Digimation. They have decided that they want to affiliate themselves with a fansub group and they are willing to let these fansubbers create English subtitles for one of their animes. They'll be given certain materials they need to create an accurate translation, etc... now, the catch is that the fansub group cannot release this anime themselves. What will happen is that the fansub group will give the finished product back to Gonzo, and then Gonzo uploads the translated anime onto a server and open a website where people can watch it only through streaming. On the same site Gonzo will also be able to sell their other products, put up advertising, etc, to bring in revenue... because they deserve to.

Hell, they could even link you to an alternate site where a US company, say, FUNimation has made an English version of that anime and they can stream the English version online as well with all of the ads, etc, to bring in revenue...

Now, THIS would be perfectly acceptable with me... because it's like how TV works in a way. TV may be free for us, but there is advertising and to air these shows, the money eventually trails back to the company who made that show.

But that's not how things work when you download anime... at the moment at least. Right now we're able to download all we want and the companies who made it don't get fuck all from us... and sure, some people can say "well it's only for a trial period" but then I wonder how many of them buy legitimate copies at all? And then even more, how many of those keep the copies of the animes they've downloaded and simply view those as their master copies to be watched over and over?


So one solution has us actually supporting the industry in some way, and the other... well... not so much, at all.... if at all. It really is subjective to the person... and most people are comfortable to take advantage and abuse this great freedom they've been given with anime.






EDIT: Actually, the irony is that my solution could potentially be a big enough blow to kill the US anime industry...