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NEWS: Hollywood Wants BitTorrent Dead

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Then, instead of attacking Bittorrent -which is open-source anyway, so their problem is not here in the sense that they can't attack it- instead of requesting anti-BT laws, they should request laws which allow them that their license provide that. If video-game compagnies have the right to do this, why not Hollywood and anime producers? Aren't they into the entertainment bizness aswell?

Because these are licensing deals, and law has nothing to do with it. You keep forgetting that unlike Hollywood and the video game companies. Anime companies DO NOT OWN 99% of the product they distribute. They are under licensing agreements.

All i can say is that alot of my fellow co-workers are pissed off,now that all the major Bittorent sites have been shut down.

Then, they should reconsider their licensing deals to get more freedom: no need to be a rocket scientist to understand that this would probably be the best compromise on the long term because sooner or later another way of hacking will appear anyway, and it will appear because -amongst other reasons- people are not informed enough to make their choice according to the quality of the product

All i can say is that alot of my fellow co-workers are pissed off,now that all the major Bittorent sites have been shut down.

to another point, if an american anime company want more freedom in the anime they want to license they could always buy the anime studio so they could do want they wanted... Of course the japanese aren't that big into the idea of americans buying japanese companies...

They are not required to play fair, especially when it's completely to their disadvantage. You can't watch a Hollywood movie before you decide to pay for it in the theater can you? No. The game demo won't let you play through the whole game so you can see beyond just the part they might have gotten right, nope. Deal with it, get a job, and grow up. If you think it's so unfair, raise yourself a million bucks or so, start your own anime company and treat your customers according to your own standards.

If they were able to show new movies released in theaters on the web (at or near the same time of release) torrents and p2p programs wouldn't be much of a problem for them today

unlike game companies... you can rent a game when it is released.. you can't do the same thing with movies for the most part are released in theaters first and on to dvd three or more months later (depending how well it does in theaters.) If they were able to show new movies released in theaters on the web (at or near the same time of release) torrents and p2p programs wouldn't be much of a problem for them today... but it will never change for them until they can realize tech can be their friend not their enemy...

Um, you can rent anime when it comes out. Just drop by an anime shop that has that service (like mine). Or get in from an on-line rental shop.

There will always be some level of piracy, but if the anime companies are smart about it, they may be able to minimize it.

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Then, they should reconsider their licensing deals to get more freedom: no need to be a rocket scientist to understand that this would probably be the best compromise on the long term because sooner or later another way of hacking will appear anyway, and it will appear because -amongst other reasons- people are not informed enough to make their choice according to the quality of the product

You seem to believe that they're required to give you that right, and the Japanese companies won't give more freedom most of the time, they're so paranoid about reverse importation. Why should they care that people are not informed?

Considering that 90% of the shows coming out are utter crap, where is their advantage in telling you that in advance?

They are not required to play fair, especially when it's completely to their disadvantage.

You can't watch a Hollywood movie before you decide to pay for it in the theater can you? No.

The game demo won't let you play through the whole game so you can see beyond just the part they might have gotten right, nope.

Deal with it, get a job, and grow up. If you think it's so unfair, raise yourself a million bucks or so, start your own anime company and treat your customers according to your own standards.

the_soultaker wrote:

All i can say is that alot of my fellow co-workers are pissed off,now that all the major Bittorent sites have been shut down.

really?... I haven't seen any major bt site shutdown yet, or maybe the IT guys finally got sick of people at work of wasting company's bandwidth... (which is a bad side to using torrents)

to another point, if an american anime company want more freedom in the anime they want to license they could always buy the anime studio so they could do want they wanted... Of course the japanese aren't that big into the idea of americans buying japanese companies...

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