Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:40 am

rook2pawn wrote:Its not an exscuse because i dont think your analogy holds. stealing a real piece of property versus playing a 80kbs flash encoded video.. its just not the same. The quality of the streaming FLVs like on anime-sub.com is so horrible, it is like
watching stolen cable through binoculars and a hearing aid.

You are obviously doing it wrong.
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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby xPiikanyaa » Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:14 am

Well yeah, I download fansubs sometimes, but in a way it DOES make me want to buy the DVDs, so I can have the English dubbed episodes legally and make AMVs without having to cover up all those nasty subtitles. :mrgreen:
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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby ZephyrStar » Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:27 am

I watch anywhere from 3 to 6 (sometimes more) shows a season. Currently watching 5. That's 5 fansub downloads a week. I have no problem going out and buying something I like. Do it all the time. Still illegal to download the fansubs. It remains the best way to check out new shows, though companies like Funi are making strides at bringing us decent quality free streaming episodes. They at least get where things are going, my guess is paid digital downloads. If I could get a really damn nice DVD quality encode for say, 5$ an episode, I'd do it. Maybe I'm oldschool though, as I prefer a physical collection.
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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby xPiikanyaa » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:12 am

Well, I download them first, then if I like, I buy. :)
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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby mirkosp » Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:42 am

Well, then there's stuff like crunchyroll... then again CR subs have bad timing and nasty encodes (on size/quality ratio). Translations themselves, I heard they are pretty good though, but I can't really tell that myself... So in the end one sticks to alternative subs, if they exists anyway, since they end up being better than CR's release. Kinda like how I'd feel like getting the R2s for some shows I own on DVD since the PAL encode is terribad. Sadly I can't do that for the one show I'd like to since it seems as if it was released only in VHS in Japan, and it didn't get enough attention, apparently.
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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby ZephyrStar » Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:48 am

Sortof OT, but I remember when I would go to this big lan party (2000 or so people) every year, there were always a few people that would show up with servers for the purpose of sharing stuff. This one guy in particular, had this huge equipment case, he had modded a rackmount into it, and there were something like 6 computers in there. It also had it's own switch and router. This guy wouldn't play games, he would just pirate EVERYTHING he could get his hands on, and share all of it. If you went and looked at his machines, he had something like 18 shared drives, and they were all 250gb or so (HUEG for the day) and they were all full. Software, anime, movies, porn, books, music, if you can pirate it, this guy probably had it.

I asked him why so much stuff, and he said "because I can." He never even used the stuff, he had movies he didn't even like, software he'd never use, music he hated, and all of his files were HUGELY disorganized. Each drive was just a random collection of folders. Sometimes you'd find music, sometimes you'd find games, whatever. He had a huge following, so huge in fact that all the people leeching off him shut down one of the lan hall routers 3 times when we were there. We were on his row too, and our PINGS SUCKED. They eventually told him to shut off all his stuff except for one machine, much to the disappointment of all the leechers.

"Because I can." This guy just wanted to have a bigger e-peen than everybody else. But the sad thing is, people started copying him, and you'd see more and more people doing this in the following years. I kinda look at pirating as a "try before you buy" thing, not that any of us are less guilty of it than this guy, but it's kinda like pirate ethics.
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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby Garylisk » Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:27 pm

ZephyrStar wrote:I prefer a physical collection.


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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby Enigma » Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:30 pm

Garylisk wrote:
ZephyrStar wrote:I prefer a physical collection.


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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby CodeZTM » Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:42 pm

Soup wrote:
Garylisk wrote:
ZephyrStar wrote:I prefer a physical collection.


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Oh, and I must say that I wish more companies would be like Funimation and upload their series on Youtube. =) Seeing the Soul Eater in English pretty much guaranteed I'd go out and buy it when it's available.
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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby Enigma » Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:51 pm

Code wrote:
Garylisk wrote:
ZephyrStar wrote:I prefer a physical collection.


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Oh, and I must say that I wish more companies would be like Funimation and upload their series on <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=73475">youtube</a>. =) Seeing the Soul Eater in English pretty much guaranteed I'd go out and buy it when it's available.


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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby ZephyrStar » Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:49 pm

Yeah exactly. I have to give props to Funi for that.
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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby Enigma » Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:55 pm

ZephyrStar wrote:Yeah exactly. I have to give props to Funi for that.

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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby guardiansoulblade » Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:17 pm

Piracy doesn't necessarily promote purchasing among editors, the only reason some people buy is because we feel obligated to support what we like. There are plenty of editors who just download illegal anime, be it subbed or dubbed and edit with that.
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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby Knowname » Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:16 am

Those editors are easy to find... on youtube

No but I don't think I've bought a single CD to edit with :down: their all either mp3s or stuff I already owned. I have, however, bought cd's because somebody else edited to that song and I just really liked it :up:
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Re: Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

Postby xPiikanyaa » Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:16 am

guardiansoulblade wrote:There are plenty of editors who just download illegal anime, be it subbed or dubbed and edit with that.

Usually subbed. Dubbed episodes are damn hard to find on the internet.
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