I'm not as moral as you *laughs* I'll accept bootlegs, but most of the time I prefer buying the real thing. All the bootlegs I own are bought for a cheap price and are series that have never been released in english or whose's rights have been dropped and nobody is picking them up (COUGHT COUGHT COUGHT REBOOT COUGHT). I'm thinking - if the bootlegger is not making huge money and the series is unavailalble, it's ok. But if the series has an official release, might as well support it (so we can get MORE!).
Fansubs are strange that way. They are awesome for fans, but they do kill the business. A company buys the rights to a new series, but fansubs are out already, so people aren't always willing to wait. Then, when the series comes out with prosubs, not everyone buys it because it's so expensive. But it's expensive partially because they don't have that much clientete, partially because of the subs... It's a strannnnngeee circle. Anime is a weird business. It can be very fickle. Hence why so many of the companies seem to die out (and leave some rights unused...) I think this is one of the reasons comics and comic scans are so hard to find online - people protect them better. But I guess Anime/manga as more fans because it's so easily availalble? Like I said, weird stories of dependancy and evolution circles.
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Date: 2009-06-16 02:53 pm (UTC)Fansubs are strange that way. They are awesome for fans, but they do kill the business. A company buys the rights to a new series, but fansubs are out already, so people aren't always willing to wait. Then, when the series comes out with prosubs, not everyone buys it because it's so expensive. But it's expensive partially because they don't have that much clientete, partially because of the subs... It's a strannnnngeee circle. Anime is a weird business. It can be very fickle. Hence why so many of the companies seem to die out (and leave some rights unused...) I think this is one of the reasons comics and comic scans are so hard to find online - people protect them better. But I guess Anime/manga as more fans because it's so easily availalble? Like I said, weird stories of dependancy and evolution circles.