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kokuryu
Joined: 07 Apr 2007
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:31 pm
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LOL, serial pirating! You would figure that his friend going to jail would be enough to discourage him too...
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MokonaModoki
Joined: 30 Oct 2005
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Location: Austin, Texas
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:37 pm
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kokuryu wrote: | LOL, serial pirating! You would figure that his friend going to jail would be enough to discourage him too... |
Well, even though the buddy did it all of last year, and this guy picked up the habit in April and May, his friend didn't actually get popped until July 24.
I'm sure he's actually been very discouraged for about 4 months now.
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Mohawk52
Joined: 16 Oct 2003
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Location: England, UK
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:01 pm
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Some addictions are very hard to break. Besides people who do this really aren't the brightest bulb on the tree, are they?
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Zalis116
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:24 pm
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And once again, the moral of the story is, "Don't pirate popular anime for profit." After all, we never hear about anyone busted for selling pirated Windy Tales or Kokoro Library DVDs.
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Zac
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Joined: 05 Jan 2002
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:48 pm
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Zalis116 wrote: | And once again, the moral of the story is, "Don't pirate popular anime for profit." After all, we never hear about anyone busted for selling pirated Windy Tales or Kokoro Library DVDs. |
You're making the assumption that anyone would buy even pirated DVDs of those series in the first place.
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Turkishproverb
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
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Location: Pergatorio.
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:16 am
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Zac wrote: |
Zalis116 wrote: | And once again, the moral of the story is, "Don't pirate popular anime for profit." After all, we never hear about anyone busted for selling pirated Windy Tales or Kokoro Library DVDs. |
You're making the assumption that anyone would buy even pirated DVDs of those series in the first place. |
Well, in all fairness, there's a market for everything. I've seen people activelly looking for pirates of American shows like Brother's Keeper and Two of A kind. (BOth ABC sitcoms, the first with at least mild interesting writting at times, in the way a sitcom can be...)
BOth've those shows were cancelled after one season, and the first never recieved any sindication at ALL.
ANd frankly, despite the comment earlier, neither was really any good.
The real issue would be the profit margins being so low it wouldn't be profitiable even if you did it for profit.
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fighterholic
Joined: 28 Sep 2005
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:36 am
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Sounds like we've got a little operation going on up there in Saitama. Trying to sell bootlegs to anybody isn't good at all, and buying isn't good either. The really bad ones end up being pure crap.
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bglassbrook
Joined: 29 Aug 2006
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Location: Gaithersburg, MD
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:00 am
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Zalis116 wrote: | And once again, the moral of the story is, "Don't pirate popular anime for profit." After all, we never hear about anyone busted for selling pirated Windy Tales or Kokoro Library DVDs. |
Shoot, here I thought the moral of the story was to moderate mailing list joins and don't let the cops find your buddy's little black book.
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