I was left with the impression the article was talking about AMVs on YouTube, not fansubbed series and movies. The entire issue of where the material on YouTube comes from was not really addressed. The article makes it sound like fansubbing is a "direct-to-YouTube" activity. Of course
BusinessWeek isn't really interested in anything that doesn't have a company attached to it. If fansubbing groups were traded on the stock exchanges, publications like
BW would become a lot more interested.
Open-source software has generally also been ignored by the business-oriented media unless it has implications for companies like Microsoft or Novell.
I was also amused by these descriptions:
Quote:
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Originally Posted by BusinessWeek
Haruhi Suzumiya is about a bored high school girl who creates an imaginary world to cope, while Lucky Star is about four high school girls who only care about manga and video games.
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I suspect Miyuki, for one, would probably think this is not a very accurate description.
Oh, and the Hollywood producer David Alpert is probably
this guy.