Comments on: 3 Anime Pirates Arrested for Uploading Caps to Share

By: Link

Link — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:41:43 +0000

I can’t afford all the anime I want to see, but I buy what I can and download the rest.

By: Kingspatula

Kingspatula — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:07:35 +0000

I agree with Nahu. If it wasn’t for people like them I would have never gotten into anime. I buy what I can when I can. Hopefully they will figure it out something better soon.

By: Nahu

Nahu — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:40:39 +0000

Companies need to embrace this instead of fighting the trend. I think GONZO is doing the right thing by opening up to the internet.

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:19:57 +0000

Well as it is speculations, if not what actually happened, was that Sunrise had issues with P2P spread of anime supposedly due to a leak of footage for episode 3 and low viewership of Code Geass R2. The latter is moot though as the airing timeslot of CGR2 is pretty bad (Sunday evening, and CGR2 isn’t something you sit around and watch with your family), and it’s been a year since the first season aired so the heat’s probably already pretty much died off. Most of the news reports only point specifically to Gundam 00 and Geass R2 if at all, besides large volumes of anime.

Needless to say they’d always tie it back up to poor viewership of anything else and poor DVD sales when it comes down to justifying it for any other studio and company. It is important to note that at this point Sunrise has access to online streaming through Bandai Channel, and GONZO has plans for cheap streamed episodes (I think), but most other companies and series would probably suffer from the lack of proliferation should this cause a breakdown in the share network.