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Jake
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Date Posted: 09:48:06 06/11/03 Wed
In reply to:
D0SBoots
's message, "Re: Fansubs" on 03:59:35 06/11/03 Wed
>I'd like to chip in my two cents as someone who's part
>of the syndrome you're talking about. My parents
>aren't all that computer literate, so as I grew up I
>had a big gap where I was (theoretically) supposed to
>have "respect for intellectual property." Nowadays I
>have zero moral qualms about downloading an album off
>the net, although I would never even _consider_
>stealing the same album form a store, because that
>would be stealing. (If you think that statement is
>ridiculous, I mean it in all seriousness.)
I'm confused. Is this because you don't think creators should be able to make money off of their artistic creations? But then below you say you're honor-bound to buy stuff you download and like?
>The interesting part of this is how my disregard for
>intellectual property rights has changed my spending
>habits... before mp3s appeared on the scene, I didn't
>own any music. Nothing. Now I have a CD tower filled
>with albums , all of which I like very much, because I
>heard it first for free. Similarly, I'm slowly
>beginning to collect anime series that I like, and I
>wouldn't even _consider_ doing that until I had seen
>the whole series. The investment is just too great.
Then I don't think you are part of the syndrome. It doesn't sound like you think everthing you get should be free. You just like to make sure you like it first.
>Obviously, I'm just one person, and obviously, there
>are people who similarly disregard the law but don't
>feel honor-bound to pay for anything they download.
>However, they can't be the majority, because if they
>were the entire recording industry would already be
>belly-up. So I'm going to go out on a limb and say I
>think there's still a place for fansubbing, even of
>licensed anime. I think that most (not all, but most)
>people are responsible enough to pay for what they
>like, instead of paying to figure out whether they
>like something. But that could just be the idealist in
>me talking nonsense.
It doesn't have to be a majority for it to hurt the industry. Sure, anime companies are still gonna make a profit on most of their releases. But the reduction in sales hurts their ability to license new series and pay for good people to work on the releases.
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