Anime fansubs on CNET

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All the controversy surrounding anime fansubs is starting to make waves in the mainstream media after CNET posted an objective article on the subject, making points for and against anime fansub distribution. Chad Kime of Geneon (US anime distributor) has been quoted as saying: "Officially, we don't condone the activity. We do admire their enthusiasm and love for our products, and we're grateful when 90 percent of the fansubbers, once they know titles are licensed, do pull them from the Internet."

An unnamed 'industry insider' goes onto say that while anime fansubs certainly help to build hype for next big shows, the smaller, more 'middle ground' anime are "being forgotten". However, a fansub enthusiast is given the last word, explaining that "…there are some Japanese companies that really appreciate fansubbing."

Read the whole, interesting article by clicking here.
 
this article in my eyes put fansubing in a good light (mostly) and i agreed with alot of it and it was a very interesting read.

I have always and will always belive that fansubbing helps to bring anime seire to US and UK.
 
Yeah, I was suprised that the article gave a balanced view of fansubs for once. I particularly enjoyed this little comment:

He pointed to the recent final episode of a series called "Battle Programmer Shirase," in which the director included an apology for having to end the series, addressed to "those who enjoy the show on TV, and to those outside the broadcast area who took special measures to watch the show on their PC monitors, and to everyone who watched it subtitled overseas without permission."
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I find it amusing when people say that fansubs have lost their original purpose, when the exact opposite is true. I become a 'true' anime fan thanks to Naruto fansubs back in late 2003 and I see more and more fans appearing thanks to the hard work of fansub groups every day.

Sales for 'middle of the road' anime aren't going down because people are hording fansubs, they are being forgotton because people are now able to fully preview what they buy before they buy it. Basically sales for the good stuff continues to rise while sales for the bad stuff is starting to drop.
 
Also as there is so much more coming out now people simply dont have the cash to buy everything so they only buy the better stuff.

I also become a Fan of anime though Fansubing and the people who work on it just what to get as many people to find a interested in it and enjoy it as they do.
 
Theres only on thing that bugs me about fansubing now adays and that is there is so much competion between fansub groups. There are so many groups now that try very hard to get there realse out before the other groups, this is ok but it also puts alot of presure of the fansubers which means some times the quilty of the fansub is lowed. Tho most groups do get along and work together on projects you still get a few groups that are at each other all the time.

I guess competion is just human nature and no matter what it is it will always happen.
 
Heh, I've only used fansubbing thus far to get hold of all the Gundam series curretnly not available in America. Its not a huge part of my fandom, considering my computer was only recently able to support playing them without freezing, but its a sizeable chunk (Its just finding time to watch everything these days). I was wondering when the media might latch onto this, especially with all the P2P arrests and lawsuits recently. I guess we can be glad that Japanese Companies don't act like the MPAA for that matter (yet).
 
I found it an interesting read but note that whilst describing what the article was about, anime was immediately followed by the word cartoon! without a hyphen no less :shock:
 
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