Thoughts on the web distribution of anime.
OfflineI'm just wondering what you think of the system the online anime comunity use to share anime titles.
The system works to some kind of etiquette, and goes something like this:
An episode of a show (e.g. Bleach) is shown on tv in Japan, someone there will record the show to their hard drive.
These people will be a part of an online group (known as fansubbers), who will subtitle the show and make it available via bittorrent.
Anime torrent trackers keep track of these files for the watchers of anime - so that they can download the show.
The TV company in Japan doesn't worry about this (well most of them don't) - it sees this as a form of marketing.
Companies in the US and Europe will track the most popular fansubbed anime, and if they want a series they will license it for a country they ar based in.
Once a series is licenced in the country the anime torrent tracker is in, it will follow etiquette and remove the series from their tracking, and notify people who search for the series that it has been licenced.
There are some problems with this, I think a large proportion of the anime torrent trackers are in the US, and the US is usually the first country to get a seiries licesed (usually a few months after the series finnished in Japan), thus despite a series not being licenced in the UK it can be hard to get a torrent link.
Anyway, I wonder if you think this is a good way to let people transfere TV shows etc? Or is it full of holes?
dylunio
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Legal reasons aside, I don't see why it should stop when the show is licensed.
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As far as I understand this is done to support the companies that make the DVDs. In places like the UK anime isn't widly distributed, thus people want to support the DVD companies that bring it to the UK. They hope to make anime more 'mainstream' by doing this, so that it may one day anime is regular on the TV.
But, one might think that by keeping the torrents going when it was licensed more people might see the series, and may want to buy the DVDs for better sound/picture quality or whatever.
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Once a series is licenced in the country the anime torrent tracker is in, it will follow etiquette and remove the series from their tracking, and notify people who search for the series that it has been licenced.
They do this because it is then illegal in the country (say the US) and some of the companies have been known to quickly dispatch their lawyers to send their little letters, etc if they find you linking or distributing.
This of course does not stop everyone from ceasing the distribution of the anime for a variety of reasons.
Of course there is no perfect system but knowing where to look does help a bit.
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They do this because it is then illegal in the country (say the US) and some of the companies have been known to quickly dispatch their lawyers to send their little letters, etc if they find you linking or distributing.
Indeed this does have an effect, I wonder which has more of an effect the lawyers or the ettiquette. Most likly the lawyers for the torrent tracking sites and the etiquette for the users in my view since I havn't heard of a company which has licenced anime going after the end downloaders, though I may be wrong.
dylunio
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