by hypes » Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:59 pm
HELP! Thanks to this thread, I've learned to identify probably boot legs, and have found a bunch in my area, but it would seem all my friends, who are no longer ignorant due to my teachings of this post, do not care! Everyone around me is turning into a freegin' pirate! A store at a mall near here sold my friend a definate (I'm pretty sure) bootleg of Samurai7. It's got about a dozen diffrent company labels on it, Funimation is nowhere to be seen, it has both languages, and it's all on like three disks! Now I can't say how many DVDs Samurai7 has but it also came in one of those fold boxes with no plastic showing. I've only seen one elgit anime sold like that over here, Metropolis. This fiend is a moron and argues since he bought it at a store and not online its legit. Another friend of mine took a buch of DVDs I told him were bootleg to a pawn shop guy and he said that they were Asian legit, but they had English dub, an e-mail that was at yahoo.com, and, well, it's Trigun on three disks. Also its region 0! It screams boot leg but because the pawn shop game store guy said it's legit, he won't listen. Also, a third friend is the most dubious yet. He's a high schooler and has bit torrent. He's toying with the idea of downloading all of Alchemist and then burning them on CDs and selling them. He's said he's been offered 30 bucks. Thats MASSIVLY illegal, but he says its an easy way to get money and he doesnt want to get a job and kids at this school are too poor for Funi's 70 dollar set because they're all coke heads. Lame excuses, but he just won't listen! If your going to dl a show, watch it once, then delete it. If it was good, go out and buy it, and if your friends want it, tell them to go buy it too. Sadly, no one listens to me.
The world is turning pirate and even though Funi's not my fav anime fouse, they still deserve their cash.