I am on a forums, and the idiot agreed to pay for a year of service, but he dosent have the money. He is right now currently offering south park, family guy, red and blue and anime fan subs, both in direct downloads and bit torrent links.
He is thinking about trying to charge for these links, in a form of a montly membership.
I have already argued and won that family guy, south park, ect are still under copy right, and are illegal. He agreed, and as such, he is removing them in one moth.
But now he seems to think fan subs are not illegal.
it seems to me, even if a anime isnt licesned in amercia, or avaible to us, it still falls under copy right rules and regulations.
Can anyone dispel the myths of fan subs for us?
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 Apr 30 2005, 8:44 pm
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Apr 30 2005, 9:34 pm
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Scoobert
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From what I understand (and this could be wrong), the copyrights of Japan do not fully get transfered over to america if the shows are never released here. This is not legal advice, and I am probably wrong.
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Scoobert wrote:
This is not legal advice, and I am probably wrong. I think you are. I don't have any definant answers, but I'm guessing whether it's a fansub or not doesn't matter in this because you're creating and distributing unauthorized copies. | |
Would it be legal to distribute copies of Japanese games with translated text?
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If its a Japanese show with subs thats legal. If its the actual American show... well then no. Thats how people are getting away with subbing Naruto which was just recently licensed and will appear in September.
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Legally, I have no idea. In my opinion, if the Japanese game author didn't develop an English version, and the developer has no plans of developing an English version, it's "ok" to use a ROM or some sort of fan-translated hack.
Just my opinion. The same goes for unlicensed anime. I mean, how else are we going to enjoy the wonders of weird cartoons? :D ~Kujila | |
How can he charge for bittorrent downloads? Illegal or not, i'ts not like he's providing the content, the thousand of other people downloading it are.
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Yep. Most of the civilized world participates in a sort of universal agreement on respecting each others' copyrights. Copyrighting something in Japan copyrights it world-wide, in a nutshell. They can't rip and sell our Simpsons legally, any more than we can rip and sell their Naruto. And no, adding sub-titles in your language does not constitute a significant change to the content, only a tweak in the interface. Distributing free copies of subbed content not available by the original creator (to broaden the potential audience), may be acceptable, but it's probably not legal becuase you're denying them a fresh market by saturating it with your ripped version which can be had for nothing, harming potential sales.
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