08-25-2003, 02:25 AM
I think a large part of the R1 market is over here in Europe. There is hardly any anime getting released over here and when it does it's badly translated subs and often no dub. There is an Australian company called madman which is releasing R2 anime with subs/dub but then the price tag plays a role again.
And the discussion if R1 rips are bad, I think your all right. Alot of anime is expensive (not all, but the newer, slowly released ones) which justivies R1 rips for alot of people, but it also hurts the community to buy R1 rips which shouldn't be the intention of an anime fan.
For me personaly I try to get official european R2 releases for movies and OVA's, but the TV series are just to expensive over here (nadesico/bebop/trigun etc. still going well over $200 over here, and NO box sets.) It all comes down to morals. But moraal (sp?) is not humanity's strongest point these last years with all the software coping and music downloading.
And the discussion if R1 rips are bad, I think your all right. Alot of anime is expensive (not all, but the newer, slowly released ones) which justivies R1 rips for alot of people, but it also hurts the community to buy R1 rips which shouldn't be the intention of an anime fan.
For me personaly I try to get official european R2 releases for movies and OVA's, but the TV series are just to expensive over here (nadesico/bebop/trigun etc. still going well over $200 over here, and NO box sets.) It all comes down to morals. But moraal (sp?) is not humanity's strongest point these last years with all the software coping and music downloading.