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Yorozuya
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:23 pm
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I'm about 30 episodes behind on crunchy but now I want to watch that episode even though I probably won't get the reference, now that its been banned somewhere...
Funny that.
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Fronzel
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:37 pm
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The anime industry sure is cowardly these days.
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Romuska
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 3:00 pm
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Piracy justification case #3.
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ScruffyKiwi
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 7:01 pm
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Fronzel wrote: | The anime industry sure is cowardly these days. |
No .. the anime was brave ... the broadcaster was a coward, although I don't know if coward is the right word when you have lawyers breathing down your neck.
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ScruffyKiwi
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 7:03 pm
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Romuska wrote: | Piracy justification case #3. |
Where are you going to pirate it from if it wasn't broadcast?
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GhostShell
Joined: 25 Jan 2011
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 7:11 pm
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Fronzel wrote: | The anime industry sure is cowardly these days. |
Not sure what you are saying here. It was the TV broadcaster that pulled the plug on re-airing the episode. It was an anime production company that originally produced the episode.
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Gina Szanboti
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 7:21 pm
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"So here's another episode of Gintama, living on the edge."
I guess they didn't realize how true that was.
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domino
Joined: 25 Nov 2004
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 7:57 pm
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Frankly, I'm surprised that it took this long for a Gintama episode to be pulled for one reason or another. This is, after all, the same show in which I remember someone pooping on the head of a shogun... the South Park of the anime world.
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configspace
Joined: 16 Aug 2008
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 4:25 am
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I think some of the conflicting reports are due to intentional plausible deniability where a representative of the party may do it on their own without informing the people parodied. So I believe it's true that they themselves didn't contact or order people to contact TV-Tokyo.
In any case, though it's understandable, it still sucks and either they need to get more balls or defamation laws are too loose or broad (ala UK)
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RyanSaotome
Joined: 29 Mar 2011
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:33 am
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ScruffyKiwi wrote: |
Romuska wrote: | Piracy justification case #3. |
Where are you going to pirate it from if it wasn't broadcast? |
It was broadcasted originally, just not on other networks afterwards. Its not a big deal though, its just making fun of some Japanese politician.
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