Odex is starting up it’s scam machine again.

Apparently they’re targing an unknown business ISP.

who wants to spend $20US to buy a movie/cd? i don’t. i’d rather pay $10US and support the work instead of download the media illegally. however, a reasonable cost is too low for greedy corporations such as the RIAA/MPAA and similar groups. people will search for cost effective and simple method of getting what they want at a reasonable price. unfortunately, the current price is free, because of the industry’s inflexibility with prices and technology.

p.s.
anime is jejune, unless you’re a child. grow up.

I am an online affiliate trying to earn money to feed my family, and you guys think it\’s ok to steal what I am trying to make a living with?

Well it\’s not ok with me and I hope every last one of you get robbed one day or some bastard starts fucking with your business and I really hope it affects your family as all your theft has affected mine, fuck all you thieves,

VIVA LA GFY.COM[/quote]

Fuck us? Well, we’re a flexible bunch of folk, change your condom every time and everyone should do fine… Once you’re into it, though, you might want to get a sponsorship from some powerdrink company…

As for you earning no money… Not everyone can get the best chance of survival these days… Usually, the folk who spend too much time ranting rather than DOING SOMETHING are, sooner or later, removed from the gene pool. At least that’s how it was going for the past few millions of years, and the outcomes are promising…

You either assimilate to changing environment, or you run out of pancakes. It’s really that simple.

1) Odex did not wage a flat $3500 fee. There were a few cases that came up to that amount, but not many.

2)Odex did not collect the money and never made a cent directly, nor will they.

3)fees included filing, lawyers etc. The proceeds are to go to the Copyright holders.

4)At this point, everything is in arbitration. No money has changed hands except court costs borne by Odex

5)Thanks to excessive downloading Geneon is closing its doors. All other distributors are cutting releases by 50% or more. Many, many hard-working anime fans are losing their dream jobs.

6)Without Distribution, Anime companies will begin to fold since they make their livings by selling their product.

To sum that las bit up. Bye-bye anime.

The company, Odex is Singapore’s biggest licensor, but only has a staff of about 50 people.

Anime is a small industry when compared to other entertainment companies. They don’t have a huge resources that big music and film companies have to withstand the onslaught of illegal downloading. They are suffering from the very fans that claim to support them. Many people claim to buy what they like and are just downloading to help them make good decisions. The numbers don’t back this claim up.

Geneon is the best example. They catered to the fans. Then tried to bring the best titles the fans wanted at a good price to market. They are all but gone now.

Singapore has a very high per-capita download rate. Odex is trying to fight that and also help their country to be a ligit player in the media market. Lucas, Universal and other producers are looking very closely at Asia which is notorious for all types of piracy.

I personally think the movie and music as well as anime industries need to change their business model. But, at this point, it looks doubtful that Anime will survive the transition without massive losses.

This is just my opinion, but it’s an informed one.

you can say it’s heaven of piracy it is.i’m not saying that i’m proud of that fact, but what can i do? the legal stuff never reached here, while buying it online costs too much (thanks to dollars exchange rate to rupiahs lol)

anyway, no need to buy monopolised anime distribution if the product is suks like hell. if they improved their products instead of pursuing the sharer, then it maybe worth consideration. until then, spread the word not to buy any product from it at all. you can find what you need right next door. country boundaries is not an issue for anime

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anime bless those who help spread it out

we here have no rule (yet) on torrent or downloading anime. the only crime as i can recall ever pursued by local authority was to make money from copyrighted stuff. sharing is not a crime, as long as it is not used to make provit.

even so, in my town, we have a rental software shop that renting all kind of softwares with cracks included, and anime of (most) all kind.

singapore is a hell for anime for now? come to our place. we will (i will) definitely help my brothers&sisters who love anime.

email me if you can’t live without anime or disscuss it on a site that i know have disscussed some things about odex’s tyranny

ferre_kun@yahoo.com
http://www.anime2leech.com

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anime bless those who help spread it out

[quote comment="275912"]so in short:

Europe belongs to the Pirates

America belongs to the MAFIAA

and Asia could still swing either way.[/quote]

I think in need to take a trip to europe in that case.

To be fair, does it make sense to judge this based on one of the richest and most famous people? What about the rank and file IP creators, the independent musicians that only sell 1000 copies of their albums, or independent game developers who only sell 200 copies? Those are pirated too. They’re far more numerous than the millionaires, and hurt a lot more by piracy.

but seriously, if people dont want to pay $1000+ for an entire anime series, like dbz on dvd, with its 291 episodes, then the companies should look for other ways to distribute it, alot of anime fans are kids/teens and cant afford to spend such outrageous prices to watch a cartoon.

either way though, i think thier gonna end up failing in this, sure they may beable to go after people, but this is the internet, were all Anonymous, and when 1 person distributing anime gets taken down, 10 more rise up in thier place, Anime is an addiction, and when theres a demand, there are people willing to supply, same deal with drugies / drug dealers

looks to me, like there is gonna be some massive boycotting of alot of companies and industries, because of them fuckin over thier fans like this