Thread: original or pirated?

Well Hantei16 as much as you are honost just watch what you say if you word things like that and internet police go by you can get tracked down and trust me it happend to my friend it sucks. ^_^ and i whont criticize you because i unsterstand why you do it's all a matter of saving money just watch out on what your doing:P

I think the most important thing that we should remember when buying anime is "How does buying a bootleg affect the anime company?" If a company went under for low DVD sales due to everyone watching it online or buying bootlegs and a series was canceled, isn't it our fault? Eventually the creators are going to be affected by bootleggers. I know I wouldn't want to be held responsible for a series getting canceled. They put alot of time and effort into making this for the viewers. Its only right that they should get something for it.

Originally Posted by solking

I think the most important thing that we should remember when buying anime is "How does buying a bootleg affect the anime company?" If a company went under for low DVD sales due to everyone watching it online or buying bootlegs and a series was canceled, isn't it our fault? Eventually the creators are going to be affected by bootleggers. I know I wouldn't want to be held responsible for a series getting canceled. They put alot of time and effort into making this for the viewers. Its only right that they should get something for it.

BAM that is just it people solking ty you worded it perfect this is how we loose anime shows and some may never be completed if they dont make money of them and i dont wanna be apart of that:P

i think it would be great to be able to buy original anime but it's very expensive and i just can't afford it... buying pirates i know the quality is very poor and i will regret spending money for something that i can get it "free" from internet with the same or better quality, i know it's illegal but it's that's the only way to see anime that i can't watch on the tv

In these days, if you know the way, you can get pirate version with good quality too. Since I heard news that some professional of the copyrights or technology. still get fool by these pirate version. Also it is really depend which country you live to say this matter is illegal and even so there are many odds too

Originally Posted by Marinetr

In these days, if you know the way, you can get pirate version with good quality too. Since I heard news that some professional of the copyrights or technology. still get fool by these pirate version. Also it is really depend which country you live to say this matter is illegal and even so there are many odds too

If you live in a WTO country then they have to respect international copyright laws, if you don't live in a WTO country if the anime is being sold in stores there then it has been copyrighted in that country (companies don't make that kind of mistake).

Eitherway, I don't buy into the "they cost so much" BS wait till a series comes out as a box set and buy it then...most of the time you can get the series for 40-70 bucks, average 7 DVDs per series and your looking 5-10 bucks a disk. Get a second job or gasp save your money. It isn't that hard.

Buy or downloading illegal copies really hurts the companies that make them & distribute them and will lead to "good" companies going out of "that" business. Take Geneon USA, they no longer distribute anime in the US, now some great series we were expecting are left up in the air and we might not get them at all. Why? Pirates hurt their sales to the point it wasn't worth being in it to them.



Think about it, if your a "real" fan then BUY your stuff.

I don't really care that much whether is pirated or original. Its the same content either way. However, sometimes i buy licensed shows because most of the time they come with extras and interviews with the shows' animators, creators etc.