2010-04-25, 13:49 | Link #3661 |
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The maybe-not-so-quick silly, legal question :)
Hey everyone,
A quick & silly (or maybe not so quick ) question about legality and ethics: After some serious searching on the forums I found a variety of info on the subject but not quite what I was specifically looking for. The most useful post (including links) was probably ato's post : http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...light=legality However, the referenced docs are extremely lengthy with lots of complicated and irrelevant material. Could someone who knows where this has been discussed and concisely presented for easy reference please point me in the right direction? --- The Details: Many Anime fans no doubt have no issues with watching anime regardless of the circumstances. However, after many questions and debates with friends I am still left without the concrete finer details of the truth. I understand that AnimeSuki and most of its users are in America, and thus some of my circumstances may be irrelevant. Hopefully someone could still give some advice on how the same would apply in my country though. This may sound strange but, basically I want to know whether it is right or wrong to watch anime which I have not specifically purchased. Now that is a massively loaded question (i.e. depends on *many* circumstances.... licensing, etc, etc). Please let me present an example. I pay for a monthy Digital Television license, whose package contains (amongst many other channels) a channel dedicated to anime. Now, I believe those shows must have been licensed (within my country) so that they can be aired here. Since I am paying to watch that anime channel - I believe I have the full legal (and ethical) right to watch anything that has been aired on that channel while I am a paying subscriber. But what about unlicensed anime - or specifically, anime that my country does not make available? Is it ok (legally) correct for me to watch anime if it is not available in my country (i.e. by downloading).. I have already purchased anime box sets (and mangas) of my favourites in order to show my support, but I find it quite unreasonable (and really not the intention) that every anime fan out there has to buy a hard copy of every anime they ever want to watch... As mentioned this is such a broad topic, but I have to get started somewhere. Advice would be much appreciated thanks! ---------- UPDATE : Moved to separate topic : http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=93356 ---------- Last edited by eshazear; 2010-04-26 at 01:47. Reason: New forum topic |
2010-04-25, 14:58 | Link #3662 |
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^If your country is a signatory of the Berne Convention, which sets international standards for copyright -- which most countries are, including Japan -- then it's plainly illegal. There is no "gray area." You watch what you buy, otherwise you're breaking copyright*. Though some might argue that there are different levels of "guilt" even legally, it does come down to "we're all guilty."
*Lending DVDs to friends or something like that is more complicated. Most people say "what the hell of course it's legal!" and I'm with most people. But overly zealous copyright practitioners have been trying to dislodge that idea for years. In practice, with some odious exceptions, companies don't really have the time or resource to persecute you for partaking in their product when they don't even have a market presence in your area. And of course ethical concerns are more complicated, and "licensed" vs. "unlicensed" is a part of that ethical debate. It's up to you to decide whether what you're doing is ethically wrong or not. Or not decide at all and just say, don't worry, be happy. |
2010-04-25, 19:04 | Link #3663 |
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Random, silly, and odd question here that I am simply curious about. Does if anyone know generally if the full, or T.V. versions is composed first for anime themes?
Not really expecting to much of answer on this, just wondering if it means they have to work to extend, or compress the song.
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2010-04-25, 21:44 | Link #3664 | |
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Why is it that Japanese songs usually don't rhyme? The language is really easy to rhyme in too. Last edited by Kudryavka; 2010-04-25 at 22:37. |
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2010-04-26, 02:02 | Link #3665 |
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Thanks for the info Irenicus.
After some more consideration I moved the discussion to a new topic anyway : http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=93356 (in case you would like to re-post your response there) You have a point about all anime being 'illegal' as a generalization - but there there are many exceptions. Some anime really are free to watch... but obviously they are only a small subset - so we can't say *everything* is illegal - because other cases and circumstances do exist. A widespread view of things. 'we can't possibly be legal, because everything is illegal - unless you purchase everything - and heck, we definitely are not going to purchase everything'. The idea about you deciding is exactly what I want to avoid though - In my opinion the ethical decision should be based on whether I am consciously *doing* right or wrong - and not deciding whether something is *right or wrong*. |
2010-04-27, 06:20 | Link #3666 | |
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Ever tried PeerGuardian? QUESTION : What kind of parallelism fault is there in this sentences? Mr Jansen is a caring teacher, a wise mentor and friend. From what I know, the reconstruction is to suit the needs of the less literate reader, who cannot comprehend stylistic writing and has problems with iteration like anaphoras (pun unintended) will be : Mr Jansen is a caring, friendly and wise mentor who teaches. or Mr Jansen is a caring, friendly and wise teacher who mentors. and both sentences are nowhere as parellellistic the original. Of course there is the extreme reduction : Mr Jansen is a caring, friendly and wise teacher/mentor. since generally teachers mentor and mentors teach, but logically a teacher does not need to mentor, but the mentor does not teach, and rather, advices. Is there anyway to reconstruct this sentence to retain the most logical and full meaning?
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2010-04-27, 08:09 | Link #3667 |
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How about:
Mr Jansen is a caring teacher, a wise mentor, and friend. To me the problem is the use of "as" in the original since it destroys the parallelism. The use of the second comma is optional, but I'd keep it in this case, again to preserve parallelism.
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2010-04-27, 20:11 | Link #3669 | |
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2010-05-04, 01:44 | Link #3672 |
Hige
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I actually asked that once, but i realy cant find my posts about it.
However, im using W7 with WMP 11. I also got the newest CCCP pack. There is this .mp4 video file. If i watch it with the Media Player Classic (HC), then i see the subs and can also switch them off. If i run this file with the WMP 11, then i cant see any subs. In the CCCP pack settings, i set "Autoload VSFilter (WMP & MCE support". Still nothing. Can someone maybe help? Thanks in advance.
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2010-05-04, 09:59 | Link #3678 | |
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Nope, we don't have a thread here, since most of us are just contented with the moekkos, which are highly abundant, in this forum. You can ask Vexx though, he probably worked on things like that during his tenure as an MIB in the 80s.
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2010-05-04, 16:37 | Link #3680 |
Hige
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I want to get it on WMP 11 running, cause on my laptop, its only running smooth on the WMP 11. On VLC and WMPC(H), it freezes often.
Strange~ Im sure, i fixed that problem, once before but i cant remember, how. Any chance to change an option, to get more performance in these players? Problem: Media file has FullHD 1920x1080 and the resolution of my laptop is 1280x800.
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