Forum - View topicIf you like an OP/ED from an anime is it considered
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DragonsRevenge
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Is it considered Piracy to download it? Like you dont even care about the soundtrack, nice as it may be, you just like the song and want to keep listening to it?
Oh, and since I know what the majority of the answers will be... let's say it isnt available for pay-download. |
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Tony K.
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Yes. No circumstances accepted. You could download even the 10-15 second clip of the eye-catch music between commercial breaks, and it's still piracy. Unless you have official and legal consent from the copyright owner, I don't believe anyone has the right to justify downloading something without paying or asking the source for it. |
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space clam
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While it is considered piracy, it is not morally reprehensible to pirate something of that nature if the perceived utility of ownership is less than the price. A simplified version of this is that if you would never have bought something in the first place (likely due to price), the owners of the music (copyright holders, etc) are not done an injustice because they wouldn't have gotten your money in the first place.
The trick is that it doesn't really matter. No one whose opinion matters is going to think worse of you because you pirated one song or 10 TB of assorted data. The Long Arm of the Law will also be unable to muster a damn about an anime soundtrack or something of that nature. (In that vein, consider that if you download a popular network television show like House from a public tracker, you stand a much greater risk of someone whining about than if you download even a DVD rip of some anime that's been licensed in the US for years (risk being virtually nothing)). |
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SoloButterfly
 Posts: 239 Location: Masaki Residence |
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Actually, a lot of anime opening and ending songs are available for purchase without having to buy the full album. They're called singles. True, as imports they are still expensive, but you'll at least be showing your appreciation of the song in some real form that gets back to the creators.
Also with lots of online companies selling iTunes Japan cards, more anime theme songs are available for pay download. If it's something out of print however, the company has no way of getting your money anyway, because even if you do find a used copy somewhere, it's a second sale and no part of it goes to the creator. In that case, it'd be a matter of pride of owning the real thing (which very few fans seem to have...). |
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EVA fiend
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I have a huge pile of anime OP/ED themes as CD singles. Considering that most complete OST's retail for about 3000 Yen, the price of a CD single can seem steep (the last couple cost me 1300 Yen each), but the main reason I buy the singles as opposed to the OSTs (or both in some cases), is that the OSTs invariably only have the TV sized version of the OP/ED themes, & generally, I'd rather have the full song. Out of the all OP/ED themes I have, there has only been one track where I ended up d/ling the song, & that was because the OST & CD singles for the series had been out of print for several years. |
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Nom_Anor
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Also, if you own a DVD, I am 92% sure that grabbing a piece of the audio track from it would be covered by fair use, so long as you record it yourself.
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LuckySleven
 Posts: 426 Location: Refer to page 2 |
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Just wish it would be free because I'm an unemployed kid who has a very small allowance but I guess it's for the best since the families of those who created the songs need to be fed too. Wish I was rich...
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