03-05-2004, 09:12 PM
Who gives a shit what the R1 companies think. I buy DVDs to watch them, not to support a company. I don't need to justify downloading fansubs, buying HKs or buying R1s, it's my money and my time.
But I can see the point of the statement by the bugger from ADV, before the reason for the existence of fansubs in the past was because those anime would have never been released in North America with english subs but now it seems almost every new show is getting licensed so you can't say the only you can watch a show is to get a fansub. Wait a bit and it'll be out on R1 DVD.
Fansubs are also bootlegs and downloading some fansubs to decide what R1s to buy is no better than buying HKs for the same reason or downloading music to see if an album is any good or not. If you download fansubs to see if a show is worth buying or not then it doesn't matter if it's licensed or not. On other boards some other posters say that they only download unlicensed stuff and bash people who download licensed stuff and HK DVD buyers but they themselves say that if the show isn't any good and it gets licensed here they will just delete the show from their hard drives and not buy the DVDs, I call those kind of people idiots.
But I can see the point of the statement by the bugger from ADV, before the reason for the existence of fansubs in the past was because those anime would have never been released in North America with english subs but now it seems almost every new show is getting licensed so you can't say the only you can watch a show is to get a fansub. Wait a bit and it'll be out on R1 DVD.
Fansubs are also bootlegs and downloading some fansubs to decide what R1s to buy is no better than buying HKs for the same reason or downloading music to see if an album is any good or not. If you download fansubs to see if a show is worth buying or not then it doesn't matter if it's licensed or not. On other boards some other posters say that they only download unlicensed stuff and bash people who download licensed stuff and HK DVD buyers but they themselves say that if the show isn't any good and it gets licensed here they will just delete the show from their hard drives and not buy the DVDs, I call those kind of people idiots.