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rankothefiremage
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For some reason i think comcast is just trying to lower bandwidth usage, and they are just abusing the DMCA.
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cloud1989
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if you read the animesuki thread it is clear that this is the work of odex, or at least the company they hired to send out letters to people. Why they are sending letters international is beyond me, I think that this is because the company hired to do the tracking mistakenly forgot to send notices to just singapore and is giving them out worldwide. Someone from japan got one to I might add.
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neko ewen
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They've been trying to throttle the bandwidth of all bittorrent traffic, ignoring the fact that there are some commercial ventures that use it legitimately.
I'll be disappointed if I stop being able to get anime online, but it's their right, and I always knew the pool might be closed down some day. |
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rankothefiremage
Posts: 523 Location: Michigan |
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Wasn't Odex the company that used fansubber scripts in one of their "legit" releases?
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AdmiralNelson
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I'll likely never pay to get the DVDs and there are a lot of people like me. Unless anime companies can figure out a way to get it on cable so people can watch it for free, or even free ad-supported online [which I'm amazed why they haven't done this], then piracy will continue.
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RadicaLElly
 Posts: 194 Location: Coral Springs, FL |
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So you steal cable as well as anime? =p |
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SailorDeath
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Given how they've come recently under fire for throttling everyone's traffic regardless of what they've been downloading (legal or not) I'm thinking that this tactic is going to become more and more common. I don't download fansubs all that much, but warcraft uses bittorrent for patch distribution and I'm really hating how it sometimes takes 8 hours to download a 200 meg patch when the connection log shows that there are over one thousand seeds online. |
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Goodpenguin
Posts: 457 Location: Hunt Valley, MD |
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AdmiralNelson wrote:
Because advertisers are going to rush in to reach a primarily young teen audience with limited income, who are notably often too cheap to spend even 20 odd bucks for a DVD of the anime show they like. I'm sure companies will have to fend off advertisers with a stick with how attractive that market sounds. |
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rankothefiremage
Posts: 523 Location: Michigan |
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I need to submit photos of my collection to prove that i'm not just some black hearted fansub watcher.
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naruto fan 09812
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Yikes,that comment make it's sound like that you think fansub watchers are the devil. I am a fansub watcher myself. But I pay for DVDs and boxsets to support the anime industry. So,next time please don't make such a blanket statement. |
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kokuryu
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And thus it begins...
Let's see how this all plays out over the next few weeks... |
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Tyrenol
Posts: 398 Location: Northern California |
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Bottom line: The pimps want their money.
First Odex, now Comcast. Optimus Prime died for what reason again? -_-; |
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.hacker
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With the list of unlicensed anime series in the article, I wonder if this in an indication of licensing of those series?
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calawain
Posts: 192 Location: New York, NY |
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Yes. So are we now allowed to post links to notorious fansubbing sites now that an ANN news pieces has a link to such a site? O_o Also, this is pretty funny, there is approximately a zero percent chance Odex could actually successfully pursue an international claim, at least here in the United States. It's merely a scare tactic to try and get people to buy their terrible quality releases. Just because your ISP sends you such a letter doesn't mean that Odex knows your name and address, it's insanely easy to sit there and pull IP addresses off of BitTorrent and send off letters to their ISPs. Color me surprised if Odex can convince a US judge to order Comcast or any other ISP to release the personal information that goes with these IP addresses. I don't see it happening, but I guess we can look forward to another 20 page debate here. Edit: And in addition, since there has been no announcement that Odex has licensed these series, without a statement that Odex is acting on behalf of the Japanese license holders their DMCA requests are extremely illegal. You can't act on a legal behalf of someone else without their permission. |
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aisasami
 Posts: 46 Location: Waldorf, Maryland |
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I/my dad got the same notice from Comcast this weekend but it wasn't anime but for a kid's movie (Casper). My friend said it was the companies who the movies, anime, TV Shows, and etc who are hiring other companies to look at illegal downloading but is it Comcast who is doing it?
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