"fansubbers" and provide content that is of decent quality. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The first issue of fansubs is passive: When reading and downloading online, neither readers nor fansubbers earn any money, nor are they taking any tangible credit for their work. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This was said not to justify fansubbing, but to show that that fact, as well as the lack of moneymaking involved on the fansubbers part, makes it a “lesser” and grayer evil. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The fansubbers have adopted practices that make it extremely difficult for new fans to watch the material, whereas there is no similar phenomenon among bloggers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His moral judgments seem a bit extreme, but he describes the issue well: fansubbers used to aim to emulate the mainstream of modernization, as a prestige thing, but otaku culture has since gone postmodern, and fansubs are just another way of performing your otaku identity. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Fortunately, where the import companies turn a blind eye the best and brightest of the fansubbers can save the day. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There is a big difference between bloggers and anime fansubbers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Not even scanlators and fansubbers publish individually. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It seems that the anime industry has just now decided to hate those fansubbers for ruining their business. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It’s that element that is causing the licensing companies to point more of a finger at the fansubbers and put some of the blame on them for the declining R1 anime DVD sales… ❋ Unknown (2008)
I have no problems with fansubbing as long as the fansubbers stick to unlicensed shows. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I don't see fansubbers and scanlators as influential today as they might have been in the past simply because almost everything is fansubbed -- good, bad, mediocre, what-have-you. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And we probably shouldn't forget that many of those "official folks" started out as fans in the first place, some even as scanlators / fansubbers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Either way, both have negative impacts on how fans and companies relate to each other and I think the manga / anime market really depends on those groups working together at some level now the fansubbers and R1 companies really appear to be at cross-purposes which is why the market here in the U.S. really stinks right now. ❋ Unknown (2008)
People sometimes accuse fansubbers and downloaders as having a sense of "entitlement" about their anime, but I'm beginning to sense more "resentment" instead as fans grow increasingly frustrated with the R1 anime licensors as well as the Japanese companies. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It's that element that is causing the licensing companies to point more of a finger at the fansubbers and put some of the blame on them for the declining R1 anime DVD sales... ❋ Unknown (2008)
He tells Boing Boing, "The story analyzes how the niche worlds of anime and manga manage to pull off something increasingly rare in showbiz: they court their customers instead of alienating them, encouraging fansubbers (explained in detail in the piece), showing up at all fan shows, and pursuing whatever cutting edge technology their viewers are buying." ❋ Unknown (2005)
Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » Viz clamps down on Death Note fansubbers ❋ Unknown (2007)
Are the Chinese fansubbers' acts more acceptable because they fight actual censorship of sex and violence, whereas the American fansubbers were merely fighting market failures? ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2006)
