On Saturday 02 June 2007 14:11, John Thng wrote: > It's not about incompetent skills in the technology. Okay I agreed > people make use of law to their advantages. Profit making is necessary, > and I do feel some subbed animes are better than those commercial ones, > it's the truth anyway, they should make them better also. It's normally > the distributors that sell the actual dvd/vcd packages that wants to > increase their sales. They pay for their license from the producers, so > we must respect also.
Money was never the issue in the contents. iTunes store is one such example. The plain fact is that people buy from it. People are willing to spend money. In fact , if they have download website for anime series that we like , lets say one day later than Japan , I would be willing to pay for that kind of service. > > Maybe joost is another way to bring tv channels worldwide. Animes are > meant to be shown in Japan, where they live on Japan ads, perhaps on tv > licenses or subscriptions, and also licensing to distributors. The ads > are for Japan viewers and not internationally. Its the medium of distribution thats the problem in most people eye not the content itself or for that matter. Most fansubs have their own ads btw. So its not ads or no ads. How they make money is not my problem. I want it and I want it the way thats I am familiar/happy with. I am willing customer so they should serve it my way or the highway. Imagine Toyota sells cars like EMI/Sony sells CDs ... you can have manual only... take it or leave it.. and there will be no other vendors other than Toyota. > > To push for international viewers on widespread audience, ads should be > international also. Perhaps in future we will see more. > > I prefer police should go for pirated software downloaders and users > also. Anyway to push for this? I hope it would be implemented worldwide > also. Worldwide ? No way! There are tons of countries that has not signed anything with US or Japan. Thats the problem with the law and the net. Law are mostly local yet the problem is global. Most or all fansubs are from outside Singapore. Why not go after those guys ? For that matter , why not force ISPs to ban their websites ???? This is not solving the problem. It is more or less FUDs by companies and the government. regards billy > > On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 11:17 +0800, Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint > > wrote: > > Hi Everyone , > > > > I have been feeling uneasy after reading about police > > going after anime downloaders after complaints from a company , which I > > shall not mention. > > > > First , let me say that I have nothing against the fact > > that people are getting into trouble for breaking the law. However , I do > > have trouble with the fact that companies are using , or abusing , the > > law to cover their incompetent skills in the technology. > > > > Any companies that does not adept to changing > > technology should and must shrink and die. It has been true since the > > beginning of the industrial revolution. Thank about how many car > > companies were there when Henry Ford started his company and later using > > assembly lines to mass produce cars , and how many left after 10 or 20 > > years? What about how many IT companies were there in 70s and 80s that > > never made it to now ? > > > > In a state where the law is becoming a safe haven for > > money-grabbing , incompetent managers/ceos running technologically > > obsoleted companies is a place , I fear , that does not encourage or has > > a place for innovation. The question I want to ask the list is that is > > Singapore becoming one such state to live in? > > > > regards > > billy -- Singapore Ubuntu Team http://ubuntu.sg _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
