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INTEREST: Junichi Suwabe Asks People to Stop Illegal Uploading

ahzdeen82 wrote:

Kuromukuro comes readily to mind, because I have no desire to wait when I really shouldn't have to.

Impatience is perhaps the weakest rationalization for piracy.

ahzdeen82 wrote:

Kuromukuro comes readily to mind, because I have no desire to wait when I really shouldn't have to.

Impatience is perhaps the weakest rationalization for piracy.

It,s not that i cant afford it TheAncientOne it,s just I don't wanna to pay money so I can watch anime without ads.

Yeah, so the idea that you can't "steal" a digital version of something is complete bs. I really wish pirate apologists would simply admit they don't like paying for stuff instead of spinning the most ridiculous rationales for theft. Not gonna hold my breath.

"it's essentially the same act as leaving a restaurant without paying or shoplifting. If that is continued, shops will go out of business, won't they?"

This is ridiculous. For one, you can't relate two essential to life items to an entertainment product.

This makes me wonder what the production costs for making the film was. For a film such as this to have a representative concerned about piracy makes me wonder. I get it, companies want to increase their profits as much as possible and the artists what to get paid their value. Also the extra funds could be allocated to expanding a studio or be put towards another big budget production.

The ever going argument about anime piracy. It's a case by case basis. For example, if you're a One Piece fan living in North America, have a stable internet connection, and a somewhat steady income then good luck convincing me you can't afford less than $10 a month for a subscription to stream the show legitimately. But if say you wanted to watch Heidi or any World Masterpiece Theater series for that matter then what choice do you have other than to spend an exuberant amount of money importing DVD's or Blu-rays with no subs?

Wow. It blows my mind. A lot of comments are for piracy and the excuses people come up to justify it, and they do it publicly on ANN which doesn't advocate piracy. I used to do it back in the day before streams. Now I worry more about exceeding my monthly bandwidth because I stream Crunchyroll, Funimation, Netflix, Amazon, and sometimes M-Go on my Roku. I stole long enough from content providers. It's time I paid them for my entertainment. I support what Suwabe, who happens to be one my favorite seiyuu, says.

Again, copyright is in part intended to prevent a "street musician" approach to content creation, the scenario where artists and companies have to give their work away for free and rely on the "good will" of their audience to compensate them for their works after the fact. No other industry that produces goods or services of value is forced into the "work for free" conditions you're encouraging. You may think it to be a better business model, but it's not your property for you to decide that.

I would think some of that should be knocked down to something a great deal lower. Since many of us are old enough to remember when Anime was a thing on TV after school and not something exclusively relegated to late night on saturdays.

Impatience is perhaps the weakest rationalization for piracy.

I still like the idea of something like an iTunes for anime where you can buy individual shows or episodes. Pay one price to stream them (forever tied to your free account) and pay a little more to download them. First episode is always free to see if you might like it.

Every time I see someone wanting to stop piracy, I just remember what Gabe Newell said.

“The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting anti-piracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”

Am I not wrong in thinking that way?

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Regarding the "sticking it to the man" mentality, this was the culture at my university. Where I stayed at, one of the students there was found to be running a torrenting hub. (It was video games, anime, manga, movies, and everything else commonly torrented at the time.) It was slowing everyone else's Internet to a crawl. The RA asked nicely to stop, but he ignored her. She tried asking again, so he defecated on her car.

Even when there were no pirate websites, people used to just lend each other their physical copies of video/tape cassette. Consuming products for free is nothing new and certainly not immoral in any way. The only thing with internet is the scale has gotten a lot bigger so it's costing the industry a lot of money, hence they're calling it illegal. But hey, welcome to capitalism. Sellers would always try to up-sell their products, like pharmacies selling medicines at exorbitant prices. Whereas buyers would always try to under-buy any product, and if we can get them for free, we'll get them for free. It's the way of the world, deal with it. Of course people would always spend money to support things they like, so that more of it is made. So it's also a part of natural selection. It's the evolution of any business/industry.

This section is full of comments of people attempting & failing to justify their illegal activities.

It doesn't matter if it's strong or weak. You're focusing on the wrong part of what this person is saying, and that's that he or she has a need that isn't being met.

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Don't cherry pick. I pay for Netflix which is the company that paid for the production of the show so I already paid for it, Ajin, Seven Deadly Sins and Knights of Sidonia. I just want it now, not three months from now, plus all the months that it kept airing in Japan after the initial 12 eps were released on the service.

Well, that certainly escalated quickly. Dare I ask if that was an isolated incident?