For an unavailable series I can understand bootleg, but it really does run rampant. I'm still bitter that the 'legitimate' copy of Disney's Beauty and the Beast I bought on Amazon was nothing more than a bootleg. It looked like the real thing, but just fake enough that I knew the truth. I don't like robbing money from the creator.
Fansubs are an odd thing. People nowadays expect everything to be free. I even chewed out a kid that wanted to get all of the Slayers anime for free and was asking where to download it. Things like that just really make me angry because good companies have gone under for no better reason than people cheating the system and raking in the rewards for it. I personally like fansubs like in the case of the new Slayers anime where it's not out in English yet, and at the time we didn't know if we'd see an English release. Now that we do know for sure, I can't wait to get rid of my fansubs so that I can have higher quality DVDs to watch on the television. (I think another thing going against comics/manga being online is that it's a huge pain having to scan in all those pages! You often have to destroy the spine of the book in order to do so as well.)
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Date: 2009-06-16 03:06 pm (UTC)Fansubs are an odd thing. People nowadays expect everything to be free. I even chewed out a kid that wanted to get all of the Slayers anime for free and was asking where to download it. Things like that just really make me angry because good companies have gone under for no better reason than people cheating the system and raking in the rewards for it. I personally like fansubs like in the case of the new Slayers anime where it's not out in English yet, and at the time we didn't know if we'd see an English release. Now that we do know for sure, I can't wait to get rid of my fansubs so that I can have higher quality DVDs to watch on the television. (I think another thing going against comics/manga being online is that it's a huge pain having to scan in all those pages! You often have to destroy the spine of the book in order to do so as well.)