No More Torrents From Japan?

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i really dont understand what everyone is saying ... so in simple words .. this would mean .. what !!

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

so fansubbing is going to stop .. !!!!
or will things go on as they are

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:00 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

it may seem that i'm annoying you with my questions but sometimes i get thickheaded specially when i get shocking news

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

but a drama won't be labeled as copyrighted unless it's licensed,right?
is it not?
is it only japan affected?then k and c materials are left out of this ..

pale

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

@ainawy: I'm not annoyed at all by your questions, but if you read the article, it not too difficult to understand what it is about.

@elly_ketz: Not exactly since dramas are also copyrighted, just like records and movies. Right now, this only affects Japan, but it could spread out to other countries if it becomes successful in stopping the distribution of copyrighted material. However, like anything else, people will always find ways to get around the system.

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Oh my god! They can't do that in April! Gokusen 3 starts then!
Joke really.

Hope it doesn't affect us too much.

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I guess we'll have to wait a season or two and see... Smile

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

now, Japan's technology somehow worries me LOL

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I understand why sponsors might be upset, but what makes them think we would buy their products anyway? Seriously, I may not even be the target audience. If i'm watching something, and invite 30 friends over to see it, and they don't buy anything ... is that illegal?
I can lend you a DVD from my hand to yours, but i can't send it to you digitally? If anything needs to change, it's the handling of material aired to the public. Sponsors paid for it already, and if it is free for the public, shouldn't it become PUBLIC property?

Eh, just a thought.

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

there's a lot of commercials on the tv...some boring and some funny..but it doesn't mean when we watch it,we'll automatically buy the item..
but then again,,we could download drama with commercials..to satisfy the sponsors?
to think that their products aren't sold here..well at least their products gain popularity..

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

If the studio knuckleheads would make the dramas available on DVD at reasonable prices AND with English subtitles, maybe there wouldn't be this entire torrent/fansub subculture...

I'd be more than willing to pay for the original DVDs with English subs, but they just don't exist... And the studios apparently don't care about the market outside of Japan for some idiotic reason... scratch

It's just like the music industry here in the States: they were reaming everyone by never dropping their CD prices until the whole Napster revolution gave them a wake up call....

Well, this is Japan's wake up call.