Comments on: YouTube, fansubs, and other “copyright infringements”

By: jcl007149

jcl007149 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:52:35 +0000

I understand your gripe here becasue a simlar thing has happened to me(referring to your first example). I make sing-along/karaoke video’s so that people can learn the lyrics to anime songs, so far I’ve had 2 deleted for copyright infringement. I understand that by using the song itself or by using a single picture from an anime is “copyright” but as you said, it’s annoying, especially when there are full episodes from said anime that are allowed to stay.
I also find it quite pointless to put disclaimers in the video information- as I did- stating who the song is by, which anime company the pictures belong to etc. because the video’s are removed anyway.

Sorry, this turned into a rant XD

I enjoy reading your articles- I agree with you on fansubbing btw :D

By: Better_than_L_and_Kira_Combined

Better_than_L_and_Kira_Combined — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:58:24 +0000

I need to get another hard drive for my computer, the one I have now is an 80 gigabyte with over 50gigs of fansubbed anime LOL. Where would I be without Bittorrent……probably watching anime on Veoh.com like I usually do when I wait for the fansubs to completely download. Why the hell would I want to spend nearly $100 for Crest of the Stars (Sekai no Monshou)? …There’s no way I would have wanted to wait for Code Geass to come out on dvds easily accessible to me………the Hellsing Ultimate OVAs cost how much!?!?

If there were not any fansubs for these series I wouldn’t spend money on them anyways. More likely I would learn Japanese, move to Japan, and watch the anime as it came out on television.

By: Miken-chan

Miken-chan — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:40:07 +0000

My good friend, I suggest veoh.com, for more popular series, and dubs – and maybe a couple lesser-knowns. The site is basically youtube with just a bit more quality, no time limits and they don’t really check anything you put on…it’s just that some people complain of how it’s hard to get the right encoding to upload anime onto it…

Plus, I find it much easier to use than crunchyroll if you’re looking for series that have been liscensed…because some of us just abhor certain dubs…

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Anyways, I agree with your rant of the OP video you put up…the copyright thing is especially annoying if you’re looking for lesser-known series by better-known companies. I see that FUNimation, Sunrise and Production I.G. take the most liberty of ’stopping copyright infringement’.

And sometimes it’s easier to UL lesser-know clips…like my karaoke-sub series for the Tales games openings…I have had no notification that any of that was copyright infringement…but I do hold some liberties since I personally subbed those videos…

I guess sometimes you get past ‘the man’…but not always…

By: Psycho Midnight

Psycho Midnight — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:50:49 +0000

I’ve always had strong feelings about this myself. It really buggers me that liscensing companies are quickly cutting off our resources for anime. I’ve been a fan of tons of series like Naruto, Death Note, Full moon o Sagashite, ect. long before they were liscensed. Now, when i want to watch the newest episodes of some animes, it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to do so.

I cannot stand dubs. I don’t hate without reason, I usually at least try to watch the first episode or so of an anime that has been liscenced, just to give the dub a chance, but i never like the voice acting. My ears are typically bleeding so bad just 10 minutes into most dubs that i can’t focus on what’s actually happening. And on top of that, many liscensing companies completely butcher the original series by cutting out scenes and editing out itty bitty splurts of blood in a stupid attempt to be “politically correct”. Thats one of the main reasons i refuse to buy dubbed dvds. Because i won’t enjoy them, so why waste my money? However, if i want to buy the original series on dvd, uncut and unedited, as it was meant to be, I can’t because either 1. The liscense has completely ruined the market of the original japanese version in america or 2. I can find an original japanese dvd, but there are no english subtitles. Hence the reason i turn to fansubs.

One thing I don’t entirely understand how watching a fansub or watching an anime on youtube is any different than having watched it on tv when the show was aired. Maybe the hype is over people burning their own dvds on their computers instead of buying them. But seriously, i could’ve just as easily popped a blank vhs(or even a blank dvd since they have dvd recorders now) into my vcr and recorded the anime on tv as i could’ve burned it off of my computer onto a dvd.

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sorry for writing a novel XD;

By: SailorCardKnight

SailorCardKnight — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:56:09 +0000

*points to the screen saying, very loudly* My thoughts exactily!!!

Why can’t these companies get it though thier heads? If they don’t want people to download thier anime they should at least lower the prices on the DVDs!
Before I got a faster internet connection, I was very limited to the anime I could watch (I don’t have the money, I could rent the DVDs but even THAT can be costly after a while). After I got the connection, it was like a (wonderful) door had opened for me and I was able to see series I had never seen before without having to spend a dime to see it. If its a series I really like, usually I stop downloading it and buy the DVDs/manga (usually I do this to support the series, but I really do it because I love it so much I want a copy of it!)
Youtube really does help get people into anime (it happened with me with a few series, like Azumanga Daioh after watching some AMVs of it), I even know some people where the only way they can watch anime off of the net is Youtube.
It also amazes me how some videos get removed from Youtube and others stick around. Its also a real shame that Fullmetalcan got the boot (shes one of the greatest FMA AMV makers of all time), while Youtube is still loaded with other FMA AMVs……

I would love to talk more about this subject but it would be way to too long to post, so i’ll end it here.

By: 1 winged angel

1 winged angel — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:58:46 +0000

One thing i also noticed was all of the fullmetal alchemist videos disappearing. Which sux big time because i was on episode 37… It seems that they also keep all of the stupid spanish ones though! and i think a few others of different languages…wtf is up with that?

By: TP

TP — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:24:04 +0000

I have to agree that it’s not the Youtube managers’ way of banning accounts and all: the big production companies are complaining about it, and being a small anchovy compared to the great white shark, Google isn’t in a position to take up arms.

Let’s face it: a truly utopian world of creative content licence and distribution would be the creator of a creative content, e.g. a manga, doing all the distribution, marketing & quality checking by himself, then we’ll be only deal with the creator him/herself. No excuse for “I’m pirating this stuff ‘cos I hated the middlemen.”

Until there’s such a program that can minimize the hassles of content distribution & marketing, and I mean a one-in-all suite that can handle all the stuff big production companies are doing right now, you just have to deal with these corporations stamping on everyone’s toes whenever they wished for…

…I would suggest you signed up with the Global Liberation Army, though.

By: Sami

Sami — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:07:45 +0000

I have to agree with you. It’s stupid that they’ll delete an Opening clip or an AMV but there are billions of users with entire episodes uploaded but they haven’t been suspended.
A poor friend of mine’s account was suspended twice b/c of that. She didn’t upload episodes, just AMVs.
And because of Youtube, I watched some Ouran Host Club episodes and got hooked enough to start collecting the manga for it.
And I plan on buying the DVDs for Ouran, DeathNote and Haruhi Suzumiya when they come out.

By: topleka

topleka — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:39:48 +0000

For the record, Sunrise is espcially picky about having their works posted on YouTube. I lost my account because of a My HiME AMV. Although, reading the comments on it, at least three people said they wanted to check out the series after seeing my AMV. It’s less YouTube’s policy as it is Sunrise’s. Many other animation companies don’t seem to mind nearly as much.

By: Sai

Sai — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:01:21 +0000

But this “viewing experience,” most people don’t care about it. Youtube’s been up quite a lot lately, and the only real sacrifice is lower video/audio quality – but it’s still tolerable, so most watchers don’t care.

I still watch my anime the half-proper way (fansubs), because I like my anime shiny, big, and preferably with some HD thrown in too. Youtube can’t give you THAT, now can it? :D