Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:29 am
Well, put. So, buy your anime, when you can. Otherwise, tell your libraries and rental places to get it as well as buy the stuff advertised when it is on TV.Smarty Cat wrote:I am not saying never download. I am saying licensing is not the end of the world.sitboy007 wrote:maybe if people who have been into anime for a long time tell newer fans the upside of liscencing, not downloading, etc, then maybe the attitude would change
Anime making is a business. It needs revenue. If people want anime to continue to be made then they need to support it financially. That means either buying the licensed products or importing the Japanese ones. (And it's generally much cheaper to buy the licensed product even before the international shipping gets tacked on.) If people really love an anime, they should give credit where credit is due. And that means letting the creators and all the other staff members involved pad their pockets with the money that they have earned. Anime is their job, their livelihood. People who download everything for free and never purchase anything deprive them of their rightful income.
Licensing is a good thing because it perpetuates the anime making cycle. It pays the people who make the anime, thus allowing them to have funding to go on making more anime. Bootlegs and downloads don't do that.
So, something like that