Topic: Anime lisencing thing - Interordi Forums

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Originally posted by Indifferent Protester

Anyhow, this referrs to big corperations, mainly, not people who have a hobbie. I wouldn\'t steal from a person like that. However, don\'t these major corperations already have enough money? It\'s their own fault for not making it available to me in the first place.:devil:

Why do you think you\'re in any place to make such a judgement? Again, I wouldn\'t tell anyone not to download things because it\'s a waste of my time, but any almost any attempt to justify it is stupid. Except..

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Originally posted by Indifferent Protester
However, If I download something, or in some way get it for free and it\'s available in the shops and it\'s good, I will always buy it.

Downloading in cases like this isn\'t really bad because it helped someone, in this case you, determine if it\'s something you wish to show your support to. It doesn\'t really hurt any sales if you bought a CD after you had downloaded a few songs. But still, in many cases alot of people just download the entire CD and never buy it, which is the problem. =P

I never said that was you though.

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Originally posted by Kia_Purity
I might be the only person who actually pays. I download it, but I do wind up paying for it.

I have some of the bleach manga on my computer, but reading manga while at my computer isn\'t comfortable, so I\'ve gone out to buy the manga themselves. It\'s much easier to lie on my bed and read the manga.

With that being said, there\'s not very much that catches my attention enough for me to download it. *shrug*

Yeah, manga/comics are better reading in the traditional format opposed to on a computer. It\'s really not the same. I downloaded a chapter of Busou Renkin out of curiousity to see how Watsuki\'s art is now, but it really would have been better in book format..

Bleach is pretty cool, by the way.

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Yes...sometimes downloading stuff is like \"renting\" it in a sense. You download a ROM, see how it plays, if it\'s good enough to merit a purchase, you buy it. You download an episode of anime, to see how it is, and if you\'re interested you buy it.

I don\'t see the problem in that personally. I see the problem in someone downloading ENTIRE series, both manga and anime, and not spending a dime on them. They obviously don\'t care about the artist and such, they\'re in no position to be considered fans.

That\'s why I brought up Naruto. It\'s well known that there are entire sites with most of Naruto\'s manga fan translated and ready for download, and Naruto\'s anime episodes all available for download. People download the whole thing, and don\'t give it a second thought.