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v1cious
Joined: 31 Dec 2002
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Location: Houston, TX
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:10 pm
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so i've been on this site a lot lately, and i notice people are actually posting whole series on here to watch, like Bleach and Outlaw Star. i'm assuming this isn't legal? the weird part is no one seems to be doing anything about it at all.
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Nagisa
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Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:55 pm
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This thread makes my head hurt. On the one hand, the site in question really shouldn't be named for the fact that it distributes fansubs, and on the other hand, I absolutely love it and want to spread the name around for it actually offering up rare and essentially banned Warner Brothers cartoons (among other lost gems) that nobody's seen in years.
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Tenchi
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer.
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:09 pm
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Legally, it's probably the same as regular fansubs, but, ethically, I think it's about the equivalent of watching fansubs at an anime club (or listening to anime songs on streaming Internet radio), since there's no official way you can save the video to your hard drive. (I'm sure there's a hacker way you can do it, but it's not sanctioned by the site.)
Some of the other popular video sites also have fansubs available to view.
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DarkTenshi90
Joined: 04 Sep 2005
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Location: Nebraska
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:17 pm
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They also have tons of anime music videos that you don't have to download to watch, which also adds to the headache
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2Real
Joined: 12 Dec 2005
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:27 pm
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If he is talking about the same site I'm thinking of, not this one, it has a forum to download fan subs that their site dose.
As far as it being illeagle or not, that is a war with views of anime. I don't think we will see an end to it any time soon either.
Nagisa, if you have ever watched a fan sub, sometimes you will see the site the people represent posted along with e-mails.
If a group of people do decide to do fan subing, I belive it should be descrite as posable. It could come back and bite you in the rear one day. As far as if these shows have been licensed in the states or not can make the issue even harder.
If these sites are distibuting shows that have already been licensed, for example Blood+ which was recent licensed, that can make it even worse.
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The Lance
Joined: 13 Dec 2005
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:32 am
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This is why companies contact the fansubbers and tell them not to distribute their content anymore.
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