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Originally Posted by TheFluff
That's an interesting limitation. What exactly is the moral and/or legal difference between a "real" fansub of a "still technically licensed but no longer distributed" show and a DVD-rip of the same? As far as I know (as an internet layman lawyer) there is no difference in the eyes of the law, at least.
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There's certainly no legal difference, just as there's no real legal difference for any fansubs (it's all completely illegal). I think the guideline is simply "it has to be your subs", and we apply that globally. (That guideline is what basically blocks all rips and re-encodes.)
I think it's possible that an exception could be made if there were a case where the licensed DVD was no longer available, and those were the only subs for the show around (short of re-translating from scratch)... but I don't think we'll run into such a case for shows produced in the last decade, as there should be fansubs around for all of them. I heard of a case at one point where a group was taking some old no-longer-available show from LaserDisc and editing the original subs for the digital fansub. I suppose (theoretically at least) that we would probably list such a thing.
Incidentally, to the topic proper, I noticed that Funimation recently announced the license expiration for a number of additional Geneon shows.