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Date Posted: 21:32:39 06/09/03 Mon
In reply to:
Dena
's message, "Re: Fansubs" on 16:55:08 06/09/03 Mon
>There's no except about it; fansubs ARE illegal, full
>stop.
Amen.
Was talking to someone in one of the manga scanslation site IRC channels...and I offhandedly referred to the fact that the entire operation was blatantly illegal. The guy was stunned--he didn't even believe me until one of the channel regulars confirmed it.
In my mind, fansub <---> doujinshi, at least in terms of legality. They're both completely, obviously, blatantly illegal...and yet tolerated.
(This is, of course, aside from "fansubbers" like Anime Junkies...flaming legit companies for DARING "license" something they coproduced? Who do these morons think they are?)
>>Another thing that has occurred to me is that maybe we
>>shouldn't have CDs in the tape library unless it's a
>>series that will probably never be licensed. When
>>people check out CDs, they can copy the files to their
>>computers and then we lose control of them. We can't
>>call the people and say "Hey, you have to delete those
>>files now" when the show becomes licensed. I remember
>>one guy who used to come in, check out a CD, run to
>>his dorm and copy the files, run back, check out
>>another CD, etc etc. That's no good. =\
Nothing wrong with that. Why do you think people go through the tape library at two tapes a week, reliably? You're complaining only about CDs, and that's an illusion--same applies to tapes, it's just a matter of degree.
>Of course, I'd like to have stuff that will never be
>licensed on CD, because that would drastically reduce
>the librarianship headaches! The trouble is getting a
>list of things that are both old/obscure enough to be
>unlikely pickup candidates AND digisubbed, because it
>seems like digisubbers focus on brand-new things and
>the old series usually get left on VHS.
It's looking like you're going to get the rest of Cha Cha...or at least FAR more episodes than you have got now. Some kind soul is posting it to alt.binaries.multimedia.anime (a cesspool of licensed pseudofansubs and outright DVD rips, yes, but there IS plenty of more legitimate material as well). In the past week I've probably got a good fifth of the show.
>But I think I have a source for a whole bunch of
>Kodocha on CD to fill in our VHS holes, and everyone
>seems to assure me that Kodocha is too long, shoujo,
>and spastic ever to be picked up... although who
>knows, my curse may apply there too (I mean, spastic
>is no proof of un-licensability; look at Excel Saga...)
That isn't a curse, it's an awesome responsibility ;) Just stay away from Ebichu and concentrate on things like Akazukin Cha Cha and everything will be fine...
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