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NEWS: Hollywood Wants BitTorrent Dead

What I don't get is: why do some institutions refuse to use modern ways of diffusing their products, or at least leaving the consumer a good, a real possibility to evaluate it? I mean, look at the video-game industry: they provide a demo for their games, that's a non-complete but freely downloadable version of their work which allows consumer to evaluate the product and helps them to decide if yes or no they'll buy it in the end... Where is the problem into acting the same for Hollywood and animes companies?

Another possibility is: instead of providing a vague trailer and uninteresting credits sequence of their show in the extras section of the DVD they could give an entire (first) episode of a serie or OAV which would help the consumer to fully evaluate the animation, plot and translation quality. For movies, this could be the first 10 or 15 minutes or something like that...

I think the "unlicensoned" anime torrent servers are "relatively" safe at least from lawsuits from most anime companies for the same reason that they don't go after fansub groups that stop fansubing a series once they know / inform them it's licensed.

It's the server that host licensed anime which may become future targets or ones that have anime mixed in with the downloads of movies that are still playing in the theaters.

Also, about the republicans in congress. Yes, they traditionally have favored business, but also historically that didn't mean passing laws that helped business, but just leaving the businesses alone. That's why I don't think these things that just got defeated in congress will survive, because the republicans would rather create less beauracracy

Also, about the republicans in congress. Yes, they traditionally have favored business, but also historically that didn't mean passing laws that helped business, but just leaving the businesses alone. That's why I don't think these things that just got defeated in congress will survive, because the republicans would rather create less beauracracy and just let Hollywood deal with the problem with the laws that can currently be used by prosecutors against the offenders. This isn't saying that that's what WILL happen, it's just that if the rep's act like their party historically has tried to act like, that's what will most likely happen.

It's hard to say there'd be backlash for enforcement of the copyright laws within the anime community. The only real form of "blacklash" people can do is to stop watching anime and I doubt that will happen.

The RIAA also proved, that through 12 well publicized civil cases, that legal action does in fact scare people off of file sharing. A number of groups have shown that since that happened the quantity of music files being transferred dropped by over 33%

You also forgot the most importent fact. Hollywood tends to be more liberal and usually supportive of Democtrates. The Republicans may do nothing about the situation just to p*#s Hollywood off.

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What I don't get is: why do some institutions refuse to use modern ways of diffusing their products, or at least leaving the consumer a good, a real possibility to evaluate it? I mean, look at the video-game industry: they provide a demo for their games, that's a non-complete but freely downloadable version of their work which allows consumer to evaluate the product and helps them to decide if yes or no they'll buy it in the end... Where is the problem into acting the same for Hollywood and animes companies?

It's called a trailer.

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Another possibility is: instead of providing a vague trailer and uninteresting credits sequence of their show in the extras section of the DVD they could give an entire (first) episode of a serie or OAV which would help the consumer to fully evaluate the animation, plot and translation quality. For movies, this could be the first 10 or 15 minutes or something like that...

Because they may not be able to do that under their license. From what I know they had to get special permission for the ani-minis and NewType and such.

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?

If they go ahead and kill bit torrent the people in the anime industry who will be most hurt are the Anime companies like Media Factory and Bandai, etc. They will will be asking the fans to buy blind or off jazzed up previews.

And the only way anime companies can know which series would be profitable if brought over here is through the bittorrent fansubs.

BT works on donations, not on profiet, all their doing is providing us with our favorite animes that can not be bought by US citizens. I beleive Hollywood should just drop this fight, once and for all.

I beleive Hollywood should just drop this fight, once and for all.