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Felis
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I'm not surprised that alot of people use those sites. Some people are just cheap and will find any excuse to justify piracy, others are just ignorant and don't know any better. |
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prime_pm
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I do have Crunchyroll. And Netflix. I just tried the HuluPlus Trial membership to see what it's like. The ad's aren't really that bad. Just sucks for binge watching. |
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EricJ2
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Studios and hardware companies treat any new format like Tommy Lee Jones showing the alien micro-disk from Men in Black: "In two years this thing's going to replace CD...Gonna have to buy the White Album again." 
That's because they don't KNOW why DVD replaced VHS (anime fans remember why...  ), they don't know why Blu-ray replaced DVD, and now they don't know why MP3 replaced CD.
They just think That's What New Formats Do, and immediately prepare to welcome their new overlords by exterminating the old order. The fact is, users do know why one format replaced another--They solve problems: DVD solved the problems of disintegrating tape, endless rewinds and one audio track, Blu-ray brought high-definition just in time to meet the FCC's new mandate on digital TV sets, and MP3 appealed to those who took their music on the go, and turned the entire music industry song-based rather than album-based. There are very few problems that digital movies solve, except on a small, specific scale: Netflix solved the problem of its mail industry, and offered schedule-free viewing to become the first replacement for the slow reality-series Death of Cable. Vudu and Amazon offer new-release rental titles that avoid that one extra trip to Redbox's red-state-catalogue supermarket kiosks, and Ultraviolet kept a collection of movies if you happen to be stuck on a plane. The problem is, there IS no immediate Achilles-heel problem that digital purchase solves, and studios keep having to try and create one, to reassure themselves they have the solution to it: "Admit it, folks, you HATE disks! Don't gimme that, you know you hate 'em! You're ashamed of how much space you have in the living room, and you lie awake at night worrying about what happens if they ever get broken! Good thing you have us to take care of them for you!" Errrmmmm.........uh-uh. Nice desperate try. 
But you're not only talking to an anime fan, you're talking to an old-school anime fan, who, back in the 90's would rush into a burning building to rescue his Totoro and Kiki fansub VHS's. Ain't nobody taking care of our collections but us. When the dust settles, the customer goes for the route of most satisfaction with least resistance. As it happens, digital has a lot of problems of its own: Availability, studio rights, bandwidth speed, being tied to the internet, picture quality, all problems that aren't a concern with travel or rental, but which are solved by the availability of owning a quick piece of physical media that can be readily popped into a living room player. And the "dumb" customer will go for what solves problems. |
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Via_01
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I'd make a comment about the answers given this week... but damn I feel bad for Justin. What he's going through is torture. I hope he gets to watch Shirobako soon.
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Mikeski
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. I design integrated circuits for a living. While we can FTP a description of the chip to manufacturing (that's a single file on the order of what Justin deals with... small fractions of a terabyte), all the data we have to send to our customers (synthesis, timing, simulation) is too much for even fat corporate fiber pipes. That data goes back and forth by courier on an encrypted multi-TB HDD. |
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Sheleigha
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People also say "I'm __ old and can't afford anime". When I was in high school and even middle school, I saved UP any money I received from things I sold, recycling bottles, birthday money, whatever. Then I went to a local comic store to pick up some new animes which were... very pricey and single-discs back then. Anime are A LOT more affordable nowadays, so I have no idea where people's priorities are with their purchases. Well, unless it's the "need to watch it NOW" bit. |
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DmonHiro
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Region lock. I'm in Romania. Do the math. And don't diss people who want to watch as it airs. It's insanely fun to discuss the latest episode on forums. |
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Greed1914
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There is that, which is fair. The question, though, was along the lines of not being able to afford legal streaming, even though there are several low-cost or free options. This question comes up often enough, and in the context of a relatively young fan that I have to chalk most of it up to simple ignorance. As has been pointed out various times, if you just type something into a search engine, chances are some illegal sites will pop up near the top. Throw in that the old legal=paid/illegal=free dichotomy still exists (at least in people's minds) and I can see where newer viewers might not even be aware of the alternatives out there. |
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EricJ2
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And even back when I couldn't afford those single-disks--not to mention the two-episode tapes--even finding rentals was a bit of a problem. I remember having to travel 40 miles to Harvard Square by train, once a month, just to rent my monthly fix of Maison Ikkoku, which was marginally cheaper than having to buy those two episodes for $39. This is one example of how the anime-sampling market would have been a lot cheaper and easier if Crunchyroll, Funi.com and the Internet had existed back then, and I could sample my purchase sales, and keep up with my "auditioned" series for $8 a month without leaving the house. Twice. |
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unready
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Hameyadea
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This, basically. Some shows (mostly from CrunchyRoll) are streamed to a multitude of regions, while other shows (mostly FUNi's) are region-locked to North America only. And services like Hulu, Netflix, Daisuke and more are, guess what, region-locked. Yes, there're lazy people who'd rather save the monthly $5, in FUNi's case, or $6.95, in CR's case (or regional equivalent), and opt to view shows on unofficial services. |
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purplepolecat
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You should have gone by bicycle. This would have saved you money to buy more swag, and set you up for a place on the school cycling team, where you could have amazing bromantical adventures. |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
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I think the question was really "I'm 15 years old and I can't legally get a credit card, which is the only way to pay for things online". I'm sure in reality there are other ways, but really he does have a point.
Please for the love of God use something based on rsync for transfers. There's no reason to redo an entire upload just because of a little hiccup in the middle.
I'll just say from my personal experience in Japan that a 1gbit (both upload and download) fiber connection to the home cost me around 6000yen per month back in 2011. But I'm sure that an anime studio that just spent considerable resources animating an episode is not going to take ANY risk when it comes to the airtime deadline. Bytes on a HDD = safe Last edited by Dan42 on Fri Apr 10, 2015 6:08 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Kadmos1
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I prefer the fansub streaming sites that don't resort to ads because I want to watch the episode right there right then. It's ironic about CR being a legal subscribing site since it used to be an illegal streaming site.
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Sheleigha
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Doesn't Amazon/Rightstuf take things like Visa gift cards? I know a bunch of people who don't have cards yet and have used them for online purchases. |
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