toughts on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

i think every one i here knows what the dmca is. this has cause the deaths of many hentai sites. one of my favorites got hit by them and is no more. any ways whats your thoughts on them.

If you don't know what the DMCA is or know little of it (like me) go here: Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

While apparently the DMCA has been known to be a dick of an Act, it is not without its good points.

When charges of copyright infringement were brought against YouTube and Veoh, the DMCA protected the actual sites from being shut down and paying hefty fines. Since they had little control what users uploaded, the Act protected them from liability thus allowing them to continue existing.

If a hentai site gets shut down due to the DMCA, they probably deserved it for being directly responsible for having copyrighted material (which is why Fakku doesn't host/allow copyrighted things).

This.

If a site has copyrighted stuff that can easily be bought in a store or online, you can get mad if the site gets shut down, but you can't really say that it's an injustice. If anything, you should be mad about the laws that make sharing hentai illegal. Then again, if those laws were eradicated, then everything could be shared without fear of legal recourse, and nobody would ever buy anything again (sort of).

true. most of the time i buy the stuff i download. but i will not buy a cd for $20 just for one song i like.

Definitely. And I imagine most people won't spend $30 for a DVD of a series that they've never seen before.

Copyright laws need to be looked over and changed, but I pity the person who would have that job. It seems impossible to please everybody.

the only time i buy a dvd is if i can download it or watch it online to see it before i buy it. so i think the copy right laws will hurt them in the long run.

I think Japanese anime companies need to rethink their distribution strategies. Their products are getting pirated on a ridiculous scale through fansubs, and they're not seeing a penny. What they ought to do is beat them to it, and release their own subs on a website they can collect advertising revenue from.

The copyright act is more or less fair, unfortunately for pirates. People ought to get paid for their work. What they fail to realize is that they're blaming all their business problems on piracy, and I sincerely doubt all their profits will magically double once all the pirates are hung from the gallows. Take a look at the anime series you've downloaded and watched for free over the years, if these HADN'T been fansubbed, how many do you think you would of heard of, then bought and watched?

none. i don't want to wait for god knows how long to see the next episode of bleach. so i watch it online. but if i like a show allot i buy it when it comes out. most of the fansubs come out in about 24 hours after it airs on TV in japan.

Some companies are already doing that. Look at Naruto. Viz has the latest episodes available for free on CrunchyRoll, subbed. But people are still spreading the fansubs, because the video quality of the episodes on CrunchyRoll are horrible, especially for people used to the excellent quality of fansubs.

The real problem, however, is that the Japanese companies who make the shows won't benefit from that sort of thing. Only the American companies who buy the rights to distribute the series in America benefit.

So, if a series comes out in Japan and never gets licensed in America (and that happens to a lot of series, even popular ones), it doesn't matter if American fans watch fansubs of the series, because they don't have the option of paying for it. Sure, they could buy the Japanese DVDs, but that'd be worthless if the person didn't know Japanese.

I think hulu also hosts new episodes, but I don't particularly care about the decreased quality as long as it is clear enough to read the words.


Yes, especially with the few American companies that do acquire licensed anime getting scaled back due to the economy. It might be worth their while, for Japanese companies to sub their animes and make them available for purchase online. Side note: Japan has a different DVD region right? so they might have to create Region 1 DVDs for this scenario.

What would also work is if the US didn't dub all the anime they acquire. All the US companies would have to do is handle distributing in the US while only subbing, or letting the Japanese sub and give them a percentage of the profits.

Fell free to call me an idiot and tell me why my idea's won't work. I could probably think of a few myself.

I agree that dubs seem like a waste of money, but I've brought it up in the past, and someone was quick to point out that the fans who only watch dubs do make up a large percentage of the sales, so the money saved by not subbing might be lost due to decreased sales.

i used to watch dubs only in till i found i can watch it sub for free on a few websites. and its a allot better then anything dub.

it just takes to long for them to air it on tv in America.