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Subject: Re: Fansubs

Author:
Jake

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Date Posted: 17:51:30 06/10/03 Tue
In reply to: LrdDimwit 's message, "Re: Fansubs" on 21:47:56 06/09/03 Mon

>My own personal justification for fansubbing is simple
>enough. I can get things more than a year before the
>domestic release, subtitled, in English. I can get
>them sometimes immediately following their air date.
>I can also get the first few episodes of a series and
>try it out--ethically there's no difference between
>that and borrowing/renting a copy, so long as I buy it
>if it's something I'd want.
>
>I realize, though, that to most people "fansub" means
>"free". That's just not the way it's supposed to
>work--heck, I would go over to Rentertainment, rent
>stacks of 20 or so VHS tapes, and add to my own
>personal collection, just because I was
>broke...doesn't mean I'm not meticulously going
>through my collection and buying the DVD's, now that
>I'm not broke. To do otherwise would be
>unethical...but sadly many don't seem to have a
>problem with that.

Yeah, you're the perfect example of how to use fansubs responsibly. I mean you had what? Like 10 bags of stuff you bought at ACEN? Yeah, I'd say fansubs are definitely not reducing the amount of money you spend on anime. So download away! :)

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Fansubs	LrdDimwit	07:00:34 06/11/03 Wed