05-15-2003, 06:35 PM
Wow you are beyond off. Yeah, I look forward to watching a DVD. If I wanted to purely support a company I would just send them my pay checks. I buy R1 anime for fun but it helps the people who create them. First off, Matt Greenfield is the founder of AD Vision. He helped bring anime to the American scene. He was releasing tapes with subtitles and hard plastic cases. Now that anime is cheap by bootleggs, should we turn our back on him? Fuck him, like some said on Animeniacs forums. Hell no, I said that I hope he steals your silverware late at night.
Look whether you like it or not, R1 companies are a business. You see Kakomu, you are a student in all fairness, who probably is studying and not making much economic output. I'd like you to make a something, like a fruit stand. You go to a farm and buy the apples and oranges. You play by the rules and sell your stuff at a fair price. People come and buy from you.
I come along and steal the fruit from the same farm. Naturally my prices are cheaper because I don't have to pay the middleman. People flock to me and you lose mass amounts of business.
You see my point. You'd bitch too if it didn't benefit you at all. When you have a family to feed and anything screws you, you'll feel a little different.
On a side note, as much as I rant about being ethical, I think the worrying of R1 prices "sucking", is just plain dumb. A) if you want equality on everything go to Russia and see how that lasts B) We live in the comfortable Western World. I'm more worried about global issues or my own personal man hunts to think of something as silly as worrying how to get anime dirt cheap.
Look whether you like it or not, R1 companies are a business. You see Kakomu, you are a student in all fairness, who probably is studying and not making much economic output. I'd like you to make a something, like a fruit stand. You go to a farm and buy the apples and oranges. You play by the rules and sell your stuff at a fair price. People come and buy from you.
I come along and steal the fruit from the same farm. Naturally my prices are cheaper because I don't have to pay the middleman. People flock to me and you lose mass amounts of business.
You see my point. You'd bitch too if it didn't benefit you at all. When you have a family to feed and anything screws you, you'll feel a little different.
On a side note, as much as I rant about being ethical, I think the worrying of R1 prices "sucking", is just plain dumb. A) if you want equality on everything go to Russia and see how that lasts B) We live in the comfortable Western World. I'm more worried about global issues or my own personal man hunts to think of something as silly as worrying how to get anime dirt cheap.