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A pay j-tv streaming site was just shut down a week or two ago. Why? The money users were paying was going to the hosts of the website, but not the actual TV stations it rebroadcast.
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Well, I use Keyhole TV. Not sure what the deal with that is. I kinda like it since I can look up drama programs...if I remember. lol
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Fansubbers supposedly live by an edict of "we don't get paid for what we do, therefore it is OK" but the truth of the matter is it is not legal. That was my point. If you think watching unlicensed titles DLed or streamed or whatever is OK because it isn't illegal, then you are mistaken.
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Nah. To me, I still see it as sampling before buying. I don't even get Cartoon Network on television, so I don't watch it on reg TV or anything like that. After I watch a show, I approach it like this: could I rewatch this series after it's over or would I only go back for maybe
an episode or two? If it's the latter, then that series will remain off of my "to buy" list. I would hate to shell out cash for something like that, and it turns out I didn't like it enough to even want to own or either it has no rewatch value to me. I'm like this towards pretty much everything, not just junk on TV. Same goes for movies. If I see a movie in the theatre, after I'm done watching it, I ask myself the same question. Most movies, to me,
don't have rewatch value...'cept for maybe older ones. So, when it gets a home release, I don't get it.
Anywho, anime seems to fit into this category. Most that I've come across don't seem to have any rewatch value. It saved me some money...which I'd use towards manga and music, and with music, I
definitely samlpe before I buy because of how expensive it is, unless it's an obscure artist and I just buy it anyway, regardless of whether or not I'll like what I purchase.
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The moral dilemma is your own, but I don't believe in taking for free what other people pay for legally. Or more importantly, I don't believe in being part of the problem of the demise of the anime industry, and as a fan I would rather be a supporter.
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Maybe this is my problem. Unlike most, I don't think I'm a
true "anime" fan, which is probably why I don't feel entirely bad if I randomly watch a series that I download each week or whatever since it's not a daily thing. I rarely watch anything anyway, not like say...10+ years ago. I'm a big manga fan, though, and read a lot of it compared to the anime stuff and wish that would have more means to getting legally, but if it isn't licensed, there isn't much that can be done, although, I am glad that some of the stuff I mentioned in your other thread has one now and I'm
definitely going to put that on the "high priority" list. I'd get that before any anime series. Manga, for the most part to me, has re-reading value.
To me, it just doesn't seem to be worth it anymore. I still feel that places like Crunchy Roll needs more variety. Most everything there is either too new or too mainstream.
That aside, what I said earlier still can apply. If one
truly enjoys a series, then he/she will more than likely support it to some extent, even if it's later than expected. Last anime series I watched, and actually enjoyed, was Deathnote. I saw that subbed before it got a license in the states (now you see how long ago that was lol). After watching it, I said I'd buy the boxset of it whenever one was released for it. It's still on my list...just on the back burner for now....more interested in a lot of music-oriented things I've been putting off for years (I'm finally getting SUITE CHIC's two albums along with Do As Infinity's latest single which gets here tomorrow! ^_^).