blackaeronaut Wrote:Arrrrrrgggghhhh...And some of us fall into neither of your positions, such as myself.
Okay, knock it off.
First of all, let's just agree to disagree here. Some of us feel that it is horribly bad and wrong and savage and all kinds of ugly to download copyrighted content, even if you later legally purchase the hard copies... and some of us think that's the cat's meow.
Quote:Oh... and the whole thing about 'piracy' increasing sales? Oh. My. God. Dude, the anime/manga industry in America would not existLOL. That is at best a massive exaggeration, and at worst a laughable crock. The industry, in the most generous possible estimate, still owes an order of magnitude more to Dragonball than it does to every fansubber that ever lived. You lumping in scanlations - a johnny-come-lately practice that was only popular long after the industry took off - with fansubs is even more absurd.
if it were not for fansubs and scanslations. Enough said. It started
that way, let it end that way. (Hell, to me the publishers are all the
intruders, stealing something good away from everyone else.)