The Results are in Doctor.
Thursday 13 December 2007 @ 10:34 pm | By Ben 'FBINinja' SchmidtIf you're new here and you like what you see, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed, and browse around for more fun stuff. Thanks for visiting!
The Boss is displeased, and always related.
Central Park Media, a hopeful anime juggernaut over here in the States, decided to do a little research, and since it has been a major “problem” for any company that releases anime, Central Park Media decided to hire online firm Media Defenders, to look into how much anime is being “illegally” downloaded. The results were staggering.
6Million downloads a week.
That was just from the use of torrents, thats amazing isn’t it? Who would have thought that anime would have been such a tour De force, that over millions a week? It was enough for Viz Media’s Senior VP of Strategy and Business Development Daniel Marks, to say. “muda da”. (Or what he really said, “no way to shut down piracy through the use of BitTorrent”)
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Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
Amy Fairchild
Chris 'Taco' Martinkovic
David 'KidKobun' Bruno
Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
Random J
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Vekter
They can always buy ALL the servers and destroy them. . .like Nintendo with the r4’s :p
You know, I consider myself an “anime buff,” so I am ashamed to say this, but…
The real question is: where is the picture from?
Minami-Ke
I AM BOSS
A part of the problem is that most of animes take months or years to reach the us or europe through legal publishing while fansub teams do the work in a couple of days with a pretty good quality.
The rest of the problem is that anime are really expensive so low income students and childs won’t bother save money to buy it.
Yikes. That’s a lot of robots, schoolgirls, swords, elaboratedly-designed weapons, over-saturatedly cute animals and Bible Black right there.
Not that I watch Bible Black or anything….:)
It’s ok, everyone’s watched Bible Black.
If i could buy my anime downloads it would be fine…
If I wnet to the school that appears on Bible Black it would be fine…
Ha.
I like to see what move Odex will make now when there is no fricken way to stop anime pirating.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/industry-comments/arthur-smith-open-letter-on-fansubbing
An interesting article related to this situation.
I think this is also happening because the average age of anime fans is dropping. The lower the age, the lower the profits will be, since these fans’ income is lower. Instead of buying the DVDs, these fans have to resort to fansubs.