Bandai cracks down on Piracy

Kaiser · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:01 pm Post subject: Bandai cracks down on Piracy

On Bandai website:

http://www.bandai-ent.com/news/pr.cfm?id=81

full article below

DogEater008 · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Jun 27, 2004 Posts: 83

thats suck for those people...

Kaiser · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:18 pm Post subject:

How so? They were ripping off not only the legitimate business of Anime Companies and probably fansubbers as well. They deserved it in my opinion.

I think this is a step in the right direction, cracking down on people who steal and make a profit out of it instead of fansubbers.
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DogEater008 · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Jun 27, 2004 Posts: 83

moNKboY5469 · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject:

I agree with Kaiser. I mostly feel bad for the people who look for a legitimate copy of the series but wind up with a crappy bootleg. Although at times it's blatantly obvious that it's a knock off, a lot of the times the knock off looks like a mirror image of the real thing. This is probably going to turn out like the piracy war, a little too late to really do anything about it. At least they're putting forth the effort and letting legitimate shoppers breathe a little easier.

youthinasia888 · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:56 pm Post subject:

Those people had it coming. First of all, who in thier right mind would even think of even selling pirated items at the EXPO? There must be some true geniuses behind those companies. People that deliberately pirate, copy, and produce knock-offs and sell them for profit should be prosecuted and I salute Bandai for doing so. It's because of these pirating business that cause dvd prices to go higher in the first place. A fansub is onething, but those that take the fansubds and sell them on ebay or at the expos should not be allowed to do so. Didn't the expo have some policy regarding this for its displayers?

Kaiser · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject:

Sorry I misunderstood you DogEater008,

But ya, I think they deserved what they got. Selling bootlegs at an anime convention when you KNOW anime companies are gonna be there.

By selling bootlegs, they not only take money away from legitimite companies that will support the anime industry but they also hurt the industry (we all want more anime produced right?). This probably also causes the anime dvd prices to be generally higher as well.

It looks like Bandai is actually taking the offensive now by ASKING everyone to report bootleggers.. hehe and email them. This is going to be interesting.

I wonder if other companies will follow suit.
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DogEater008 · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Jun 27, 2004 Posts: 83

dsyf · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: May 08, 2004 Posts: 81

I support the action too. I bought bootlegs before, and they suck bad in the translation. LEarned my lesson and will never buy another ever! At that time, not having a fast connection to the internet meant downloading fan-sub animes were kinda hard, so non-licensed titles were extremely hard to obtain, so that's where bootleggers come in.... it's not good, I would rather wait till next time.

eiXo · newbie! Joined: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 2

So very tru. The english translations they do are friggin terrible.

Bedlam66 · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:06 am Post subject:

Yup sucks to be them. They deserve it though Fansubs are one thing they're free But ripping off a company for cash by bootlegging is just plain wrong.

Smeggy · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Nov 08, 2002 Posts: 361 Location: Uk

To be honest, i didn't think we would need a discussion on this - its quite blatantly wrong, and bandai is doing the right thing - and everyone here seems to agree aswell Smile

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Warukyure · newbie! Joined: Jun 25, 2004 Posts: 12

Well i dunno, sure they licensed dvds are better in quaility, subs maybe more correct than the HK or Taiwan DVDs and it does support the actual company but who has the time or money to buy those cuz you probably could be a student in a situation where money is tight (etc.) or don't always have enough money to fork over for a $45(CDN) dvd

I see the HK/Taiwan DVDs as the best available alternative cuz hey its cheaper, (somewhat) is released faster, and hey you can get stuff thats not licensed (at the time or still isn't, like D.C., CCS 2nd Movie, FMwS)

Like come on its either $15CDN (or $8USD) for a HK DVD (can comtain from 3-8 episodes per dvd) or $45CDN for a licensed DVD (Probably best you can get is 3-4 epis)

So lets have your wallet talk for a bit

Think of a 24 Episode anime

HK/Taiwan DVDS: best you can get is the whole series in a box set so roughly 24 episodes with 8 episodes per dvd equals 3 DVDs
$15 CDN * 3 DVDs = $45(most of the time tax is not included, well only in Calgary)

OR LEGIT DVDs: Hmmm... so thats like 24 episodes with maybe 3 or 4 episodes per DVD so

24 episodes / 3 episodes per disc = 8 DVDs * $45CDN = roughly $360 CDN + GST (and PST for all those not in Alberta)

24 episodes / 4 episodes per disc = 6 DVDs * $45CDN = roughly $270 CDN + GST (and PST for all those not in Alberta)

Hm..... $45 CDN or $270 CDN.... thats a pretty hard decision....

I'll let you decide

shoangore · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject:

I'd be more than willing to pay money for 100% legit anime dvd's. Especially since I only buy the ones that I truly do like, so I'm not just throwing out heaps of money all over the place.
Plus, I download and watch tons of anime, so it's sorta like paying back for all my freebie's. I'd rather give money to support those that create the anime than those that jack off subs and try to profit themselves.

Props to Bandai, that was a good move.
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Kaiser · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:57 pm Post subject:

Although I'm a big supporter of fansubs, I cannot stand people ripping off anime studios of what they rightfully deserve. If everyone started buying bootlegs you know what would happen? Sure maybe you get some cheap DVDs that are somewhat decent but you wouldn't see anymore new anime coming out because no anime studio would be making any money and is that what we want?

Not to mention bootleggers either have crappy english subtiles or they steal fansubbers' translations.

Bootleggers and those who support bootlegging hurt the anime industry.

I hope all the other major companies follow suit.
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