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| hyorinryu:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-01-25/funimation-sues-1337-bittorrent-users-over-one-piece Wonder if this is related to the Fractale incident a while back. That's a rather peculiar number. I'm not sure what good this is going to do though. Was thinking about posting it in the Winter 2010 article with the Fractale one, but since One Piece is not a new anime, I figured it should have a new topic instead. |
| orinrin:
Lawsuit? More like leetsuit. :V *SupremeBogus is shot* |
| Drake:
* Drake turns on TV, watches episode of anime * Drake turns on computer, downloads episode of anime, watches, deletes |
| HakureiSM:
--- Quote from: Warboss ボガス on January 26, 2011, 03:51:23 AM ---Lawsuit? More like leetsuit. :V --- End quote --- You know, I actually thought the number was "leet", and thought maybe it's some tracker I don't know about, but then I read the article. Also huuurr they sued a thousand people that downloaded one episode out of four hundred and eighty one I'd love to see what happens if they try to sue everyone they find torrenting every One Piece episode ever Speaking of which --- Quote ---The suit also notes that users in a BitTorrent "swarm," --- End quote --- Oh, you mean the "torrent". |
| Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin:
You know, I'm increasingly of the opinion that one of the major reasons piracy happens is because the pirates offer a better service than the legitimate sources (see also: how Valve basically obliterated piracy of their games in Russia*), and the way to beat piracy is to treat them like competitors and, y'know, offer a better service. From that perspective (which is admittedly somewhat Insane Troll Logic from an actual legal standpoint), these guys are basically attempting to sue customers of their competitors for not going to Funimation's "store" instead. *See, other game-publishers were taking six months MINIMUM to legitimately publish games in Russia. Russian pirates took the intervening time to translate the games into Russian and doing other things that pirates do, and by the time the games legitimately got to Russia, everyone was basically already playing the pirated version. And so the companies were saying "Do we even wanna try? I mean, Russia's full of pirates!" Valve took one look at this situation, and started releasing games in Russia, fully translated into Russian, on the same day as they were releasing everywhere else in the world, and suddenly their problem with piracy in Russia wasn't any worse than anywhere else in the world. |
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