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Is it the End of Animu? Is it…?

Posted in Random Concepts on Nov 30th, 2007 By Kyokii

Auuauu…!! >.<

I have not been following anime news closely as of late. However, I did discover little tidbits of information regarding what has been going on with the anime distribution industry recently as described on NovaJinx’s blog. Fascinating, I must say. It appears the industry’s current predicament has created quite a bit of controversy in the anime community and while this whole situation is really nothing “new,” I certainly felt Nova offers some good, valid insight into the industry’s future and the problem it faces. Will it adapt and survive or will it become extinct? It remains to be seen.

Give Nova’s post a good read. It’s well written.

8 Responses to “Is it the End of Animu? Is it…?”

  1. on 30 Nov 2007 at 9:05 am1NovaJinx

    Aw, now you’re flattering me >////

  2. on 30 Nov 2007 at 10:11 am2Rain

    I blame you RunnningKid, same for you novaJinx and myself… lol

    Great post Nova. How will they interpret it? That is just to hard for me to answer…. how can you stop what is free? Once a serious new law appears and legal action is taken, I can see the number of Subbers fall dramatically.

  3. on 30 Nov 2007 at 3:18 pm3Runningkid

    >_>;; I wasnt the one who wrote the post!!!! NOT ME!!!! same to all shana post! they are by Kyokii! (its underneath the title! By Kyokii!)

  4. on 30 Nov 2007 at 4:28 pm4NovaJinx

    I don’t think the fansubbing scene can be harmed much. Even if American legistlation changes, it has no effect whatsoever in Europe. The record industry has already hit this problem - tackling Swedish or Russian-based p2p-networks has turned out to be a nearly impossible task simply because the legistlation in these countries is such much different from the American.
    The most significant difference is that in most European countries politicians have no authority over judicial system. Just lately IFPI tried to pressure Swedish minister of infrastructure to have the judicial system wipe out The Pirate Bay and ended up just as a laughing stock because what they demanded was in fact illegal in Sweden.
    The ways of the record industry sueing everything in sight is coming to an end - just recently it was reported that RIAA is facing significant cuts in their funding, mostly because their interest groups have realized that trying to attack the online piracy is a futile task and only serves to degrade the image of the industry.

  5. on 01 Dec 2007 at 11:12 am5Rain

    Runningkid @ Don’t be jealous =P Kyokii is safe from any harm!

  6. on 01 Dec 2007 at 4:52 pm6Kyokii

    @Rain: Yea! It’s all Ruki’s fault. Blame him! =P

  7. on 12 Dec 2007 at 1:15 am7Kljigen

    SO Kyokii is Seto -_-
    I was wandering who the hell was commenting my blog >.>

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