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And where exactly do you think flying trains take off and land from?

The Galaxy Express depot, of course!

...I could pretty much count on them having episodes of any older TV show I care about, and also lots of anime I hadn't yet seen (English-dubbed "Bleach", "Freezing", "M*A*S*H", etc.).

Hulu has also recently dropped the vast majority of their anime catalog. As someone who had pre-paid for his subscription through November 2017, I'm a little miffed. Might put it "on-hold" to preserve the months and come back when something shows up there I want to watch.

Seems lots of providers are trying to do more original content to avoid having to license things, but miss that the third-party content and older series freely available to see still is what drives lots of people to subscribe to their service to start with.

No, but even if he lost money five years running then his co-defendant was making it selling drinks on the night. They made Pokémon alcoholic beverages called shots in the article. http://www.animenewsnetwork.co...

Although fake kiddie porn is just as illegal as the real thing,

Child pornography laws in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Legal status of cartoon pornography depicting minors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

However, in the 2008 Christopher Handley case, a judge overturned parts of the PROTECT Act as unconstitutional while charging Handley with a lesser obscenity charge.

Currently, such depictions are in a legal grey area due to parts of the PROTECT Act being ruled unconstitutional on a federal level; however, laws regulating lolicon and shotacon differs between states; several states have laws that explicitly prohibit cartoon pornography and similar depictions (such as video games in the state of New Jersey), while others usually have only vague laws on such content; in some states, such as California, such depictions specifically do not fall under state child pornography laws,[58] while the state of Utah explicitly bans it.[59]

Due to the fact that the definition of obscenity differs between states, the legality of lolicon and shotacon depends on the community; in several states, there are clauses that state that for something to be deemed obscene, real harm must be done or the child depicted must be someone that exists in real life, while other areas may specifically allow unrealistic "cartoon" depictions but prohibit more "life-like" depictions. Some states may have heavy penalties on such material but only ban depictions of minors under 16 years of age (Arizona and New Jersey), while others may decide to ban it altogether.

Iowa Collector Charged for Allegedly Obscene Manga (Update 2) - News - Anime News Network
I was going to blockquote some stuff, but just read the above. It's short enough.
Appeals Court Backs Prison for E-Mail Obscenity | WIRED

Whorley was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, in part for possessing genuine child pornography. But the Justice Department — perhaps sensing a chance to smuggle bad law onto the back of an unsympathetic defendant — also charged Whorley for having unsavory manga under the recently-enacted Protect Act, which outlaws obscene cartoons depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

More surprisingly, prosecutors charged him under an older statute outlawing the possession of “any obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy book, pamphlet, picture, motion-picture film, paper, letter, writing, print or other matter of indecent character” as defined by a jury. That violation was for writing out his sexual fantasies involving children, and e-mailing them to like-minded internet friends. Though Whorely is apparently a pedophile, the law applies to any obscene content.

In 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans have the right to possess obscene material in the privacy of their own homes. But trafficking in such goods through interstate commerce — which today includes the internet — is illegal under that ruling.

Notice the ones which mention a plea bargain.
PROTECT Act of 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first conviction of a person found to have violated th

Ok, so let me get this straight, we have an article basically rehashing citing a bad explanation of Wilson score interval as a suggested fix for interpreting multi level ranking data? That is really stupid. If you are having data quality problems (saturated scores in this case) the first thing you don't do is throw away most of your data. So whats he do? Reduce each ranking to a positive vs negative ranking (1 bit).

Summery of algorithm (I think, correct me if I'm wrong here):
Reduce scores to to 1 bit (0 or 1) based on threshold. Implicitly assume all ratios of 1 vs 0 scores are equally likely (Frequentist bullshit). Use lower bound of 95% confidence interval as ranking factor. Even the sources own page on a Bayesian approach calls this "a hack"! It has no statistical justification.

Sure, cited source suggests a Bayesian approach in the footnote (see previous link) but he wimps out again and still does a reduction to positive vs negative ratings! Why? I have no idea: its not hard.

Also, "Bayesian statistics, like quantum theory, sounds completely nuts on its face". Really? I never thought assuming probability distributions for the unknowns sounded nuts... (I mean how can that even be on par with treating the state of all particles as a complex wave function? If you can't take bayes' rule, you shouldn't even go near the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics!). I don't recommend getting your explanation of trivial topics from a guys who finds them confusing.

If you want an example of a decent and not overly complex Bayesian estimator used for rankings, you can check out anime news network. Just hit the little formula link for details (quoted below). IMDb seems to use a similar approach but is less clear about it.

This rating only includes titles that have at least 13 votes. The bayesian estimate is a statistical technique used to reduce the noise due to low sample counts. In effect, the less a title has votes, the more it is pulled towards the mean (7.5354). In other words, these are the titles that many people agree are great. (formula)
bayesian rating = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
R = average for the anime
v = number of votes for the anime
m = minimum votes required to be listed (currently 13)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.5354)

In practice, I've found their rankings to work very well. They have similar saturation problems to steam, but it works out fine.

Platonic Chain One very underrated anime.

India's Mars probe finally leaves Earth-bound orbits on the 1st of December 2013.

On the very same day, China is set to launch its first lunar lander.

Both India and China are from Asia.

Where are the Europeans ?

Where are the Americans ?

What the heck happened to the usually technologically more advanced societies of the Western countries ?

Asia is playing catch up very very fast, and before long, they might even get ahead of you guys !

Apparently they're in Houston, and Florida. I regularly see the European, Japanese, Russian, Canadian, Russian, etc. Astronauts at the Johnson Space Center.

The USA has sent astronauts to successfully walk around on the moon, and driven manned rovers there. We've got some satelites orbiting Mars already, and several successful mars rovers, the latest Mars Science Lab is the size of a SUV, and was deployed by unique very complex manoeuvre involving a hovering platform.

NASA partners with space agencies around the world, from Europe's ESA, to Japan's JAXA, to Russian Roscosmos, etc. Don't get me wrong, I think we should give all the NSA and war budgets to NASA and have self sustaining colonies of humans out there (reduce our current 100% chance of extinction). However, I'm not scared about Asia "catching up" to our decades old achievements. In fact, Space is a resource all the world's countries should share.

See also: Planetes -- an anime which briefly explored the concept of poor nations inability to access space widening the poverty gap, and spurning space terrorism.

Some governments fear each other and cause war, but even among the adversarial countries the vast majority of ordinary people of on Earth aren't enemies of each other. Gazing at our small vulnerable blue world from space there are no national borders. May cooperation in space exploration continue to unite Earth's people. I'm cheering India on! The people of Asia deserve to have the cultural catalyst of the cosmic perspective too.

You may also enjoy Space Brothers - Anime about international cooperation in space exploration, brotherly love, sibling rivalry, and putting the first Japanese astronaut on the moon. IMO, we should have inspiring animated shows like this on prime-time TV in place of yet another sarcastic Simpson's clone. Maybe then statements such as yours would be encouraging courage and cooperation rather than scaremongering.

TL;DR: Some men just want to watch the world grow.

A great deal of the (all negative) comments are about the fixed-width design, which is horrible--especially for wide monitors. And I agree.

But I think it's more insidious than that. I think this is Dice making Slashdot available for "Wrap Ads" (my term; I've no idea what the industry term for this is.) This is an advertisement that takes up all the white space around the site content (usually including some flash ad in the regular side-bar ad space.) I've only seen these in relation to video games and movies, but that might just be because I don't visit many sites not dabbling in those categories. Some sites that do this:
-IGN (they're running one right now for Final Fantasy XIV, even! Giant flash ad at the top. Load it in a browser without NoScript/adblock to see)
-Anime News Network (and what do you know, they're also doing it right now!)
-Escapist Magazine (home to the popular Zero Punctuation series of game reviews, but they're not doing it right now.)

Just like city buses wrapped completely for advertising, I believe that Dice has created this layout--which goes against best practices (I think?), especially where nerds and news are concerned--expressly for the purpose of selling wrap-around advertising. Most of us won't feel it, since a large portion of the community uses NoScript, AdBlock, and other such add-ons/services, but it still makes the comment section a pain and that's all Slashdot is good for now. Timely news? No. Properly edited synopsis that remove extreme spin/bias? No. Editing to check for dupes, sometimes within hours of each other? No. More-intelligent-than-average internet commentary with a user-ran moderation system that helps to bring the more useful comments to the front? Yes.

And this new layout cuts the space for that by half, wrap ads or no. So when the current Slashdot layout goes, so do I.

Another interesting take on the idea of everyone having access to pervasive surveillance (and good data mining) is Platonic Chain. Oddly enough, Platonic Chain is mostly a comedy.

Unsurprisingly, also addressed in Planetes. Space terrorists believed the unfair regulations against lesser nations were being used to the economic and political gain of the more powerful nations while creating an even wider gulf between more and less powerful nations.

TLDNW: When you look down on our precious blue planet from space, there are no borders.

All the politics, greed, and fear in the Universe is dwarfed by the vulnerability of the planet, and our need for progress outside our home among the stars in order to protect it and thus all life in this corner of the cosmos. If that progress be spurned by power and greed, so be it. If cautiousness is not minded proportionate to the risk, we stand more to loose than a few years of progress. I say let the small space satellites and shuttles advance. Just like nuclear weapons, if the enemy were to bombard us with mass from orbital platforms, then so will we be able to.

Mutually assured destruction sounds evil, but when I think about it, that's all we've ever had since before the first tribe of man came to trust their members. The only way to gain trust and prosper as a species is to cautiously operate in the same spaces of technology and industry; To shake hands and mutually cause any hidden knives to fall from our sleeves; To become more interdependent on each other; To cautiously take equal risks while never loosing sight of the worlds all mankind is charged to protect.

It's easy to dismiss such caution as irrational fear, corrupt greed, and political control. The truth is that right now we only have one world. One basket carries all our eggs at present. I would say extreme cautiousness is warranted, but should be proscribed according to actual risk, not perceived threat. If we can not take the risk of shaking hands with those we feel threatened by, they can never prove non threatening and can never become our friends. The more self sustaining footholds life wins itself in the Universe, the more reckless we can be, the more progress we can take at risk.

TLDR: Let's not throw caution to the wind and fuck it all up forever.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=468

Did you hear that the chocolate rations are going up again?

Oblig. anime

Funny, I remember this around the time,

Gene's son was doing some comic, and ripped images that were almost identical to Bleach and a few other manga's ( http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/none/manga-gene-simmons-son-accused-bleach-plagiarism-750585 and http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-02-25/nick-simmons-incarnate-halted-over-alleged-bleach-plagiarism ) . Then his dad comes out that all these kids that steal should be sued, face prision, hang on I think there was an quote saying he hoped they get @ss rapped in prison: yep found it http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/gene_simmons_fires_back_at_hackers.html and another http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/gene-simmons-vs-anonymous-whos-the-bigger-asshole.ars . By his own mouth, his son should be in prison being @ss raped.

Personally it is the double standards everyone has that annoys me

Bit like all the hacking stuff lately, Companies are allowed to sell programs to hijack Itunes, install keyloggers, do what they like and sell it to governments, but the day a normal person does it, 10 years in prison. Hacking a website is like tagging someones building/home, if it is that much of a problem get better protection. 10 years for defacing a website? You can kill someone for less time. You think if you killed gene that the charge of website defacing would still be present? might be a nice option out that has only good points

Bored now, MERRY XMAS ALL

thats not the argument the pro- yaoi people are using - they didnt mention which specific titles are banned.

RTFblog post instead of ranting wildly then. DMP named names, they are where I got the descriptions from. And yes, even though the titles involve 20+ year olds, they are still yaoi, because yaoi as a genre is not "about child molestation". Some yaoi titles include child molestation (of adolescents, to separate this discussion from the people pointing out that yaoi using prepubescent kids exists but is a separate genre), but guess what? The US publishers don't want to be sued any more than amazon wants to be sued, so they don't publish those titles here. The closest they'll come will be "high school" where the character is probably a senior and therefore at least possibly legal. For more information on the subject of what can get published in the US, look at the drama surrounding the license and cancellation of Kodomo no Jikan (which would have been named "Nymphet" here in the US, which can probably be made into a much safer and more on-topic search, or you can just read through the associated news entries here). The license was announced shortly after the series began in Japan, while it was still relatively tame. By the time the main character (a 3rd grade girl) pretended to give a phallic-looking water fountain a blow job, the US publisher had given up. Not even a single volume was published here, and that was loooong before the story got to the point where an older man was spreading vapor-rub on the little girl's chest, or the girl was learning how to insert tampons. (BTW, the author of Kodomo no Jikan is a woman. No clue where you've gotten your conceptions of the impeccable purity of the female kind that you demonstrate throughout your rants. Your inability to imagine them schlicking to gay porn is your own problem, not everyone else's.)

As for the portrayal of rape, Japan's view of it is no less disturbing than the American view that prison rape is funny and/or deserved. If you don't think so, think again, because kids go to prison (or "juvenile detention facilities") too.

Finally, as for the "Boy's Love" or "BL" title for the wider genre (including the non-pornographic titles, which is generally implied to be excluded from "yaoi") in Japan, they use english like we use japanese: excessively and incorrectly. "Boy" only refers to the gender, not the age. Amusingly enough, amazon.co.jp includes all manga, anime, and "BL" as a single category, which leads to rather bizarre emails from them: "You bought and liked Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. Here's some gay books from the same department that are pretty popular!" (I've mostly trained that out but recently I've been getting an onslaught of recommended radio play/drama CDs that look gay as hell)

Surely you mean Galaxy Express 999, considering the

Granted, both are created by Leiji Matsumoto, so it is understandable that one could get confused.

One key point in the ruling not yet mentioned is that Righthaven did not employ the take-down procedures set in place by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. They failed to notify the blogger or the blogger's ISP, presumably because they knew that doing so would result in the piece being removed from the blogger's site and eliminating Righthaven's chance to profit.

Like others, I'm a bit troubled by how sweeping a ruling this seems to be. On its face it seems to give nonprofit groups a "fair-use bonus" just because of their nonprofit status. I can understand the finding of limited "harm" to the copyright holder and perhaps even accept the non-competing markets part of the ruling. I would still argue nonprofits should have to defend their use of copyrighted materials with the standard list of defenses in the Copyright Act. I also have problems with the portion of the judge's ruling that claims a long investigative story doesn't qualify as a "creative work" because it's purely "factual" in nature.

Those qualms aside, I don't have any problems with the judge ruling that plaintiffs must first use the procedures Congress put in place to handle disputes of this kind before bringing them to the courts. One of the commentators to the linked article reported that Righthaven had earlier rejected sending take-down notices because of the costs involved. I'll just observe in passing that little Funimation, an American distributor of Japanese anime, had no problem finding the funds to send 1,337 (yep, that's the figure) take-down notices to file sharers. I'd bet Stephens Media has a lot more resources available to devote to take-down notices than a company whose annual revenues are well under $100 million.

In the US such things are legal (see nudist websites).

Not quite, see Christopher Handley, who got into trouble for collecting manga.

Funny this should come up today. I just started watching Moonlight Mile the other night.

Unfortunately in some places drawings can get you 20 years, no tentacles involved.

as seen here

Drawings of schoolgirls getting raped.

There's quite a difference. Unless you think they abduct actual schoolgirls, and octopuses, to use them as models.

Not in Australia there isn't.

This country seems to be determined to put itself on a fast track to eliminating common sense every bit as quickly as the United States.

Nintendo has always been stalwart when it comes to protecting their copyrights. Nintendo has a long history of comments about fair use, personal backups, and so forth that might even make Ken Kutaragi, Mr. "PS3 gamers should get a second job", laugh out loud. Their actions are usually quite in line with their statements.

But, something I have never heard about, despite trawling some of the darkest parts of the internet, is Nintendo going after creators of porn based on Nintendo IP. This has always confused me--I'm not really for nor against them going after the artists, but considering the potential harm they might do to Nintendo's brand, you'd think it would be of a higher priority. Even more astounding, at least to me, is that as far as I can tell THOT was being given away for free, while there are plenty of toon porn sites out there that charge for their content (though piracy often slips around this). I would think it almost a no-brainer for Nintendo to go after the commercial sites and more popular/notorious artists to scare off the little guys. And, yet, I've never heard of a single case or even a C&D.

In fact, I've never heard of any company acting upon toon porn (and any cosplay porn that may exist.) Why is this? Are they somehow not aware it exists? Rule 34 is a popular enough concept at this point that I would think the idea would have at least entered their head from somewhere. Are they scared of bringing the world of drawn pornography to the limelight? After an Iowa man was thrown in jail for kiddie toon porn ("shota yaoi"), Nintendo (and other similar companies) could get even more help from the FBI and local police forces (looking to make a name for themselves) going after the artists of any underaged characters. Nintendo obviously isn't going just for profit makers (Neither is Disney), so their lack of action in this regard leaves me scratching my head. ..Oh, and, uh, boo copyright, overzealous corporations, fish, fish, etc.

Mainly nostalgia here, but the article reminded me of the plot from Roujin Z (OAV).
An elderly invalid is volunteered for a bizarre science experiment. He is given a robotic bed linked directly to his brainwaves, allowing instant gratification. This seems like a wonderful deal, until this seemingly harmless bed goes out of control and transforms into an unstoppable robot.

I first saw the film on the SciFi channel many years ago.

Okay, the bust/waist/hips is in inches, but height and weight are in metric? Looks like your configuration file is hosed.

And I think what you're looking for is in Eden of the East (not East of Eden). The "Eden of the East" in the show is a web site that you can upload a picture to and it will try to identify what is in the picture, showing that info as an overlay (like your 'shop but translucent and with less color). So, starting with the original picture, you see boxes layer themselves on top with identifying information. It's a neat concept.

It takes a special sort of person to hold an intelligent internet conversation though. Its easy for a person to be fake through text, but its much harder to pull it off in real life surrounded by intellectuals...you can smell someone who is fake from a mile away.

Also, most published letters on the internet that hold value were written in a style that would easily be read as a speech, which only proves that vocal discussion infront of peers in a community is the best way of conversing about anything.

There is the other side of the coin, however, that shows that someone inexperienced in a field may have a different view populated by wrong ideas that creates something truly grand and unique. n00bs of the internets always find a different way to accomplish something they want to do, and those ways can often be surprising to an expert in a field. I believe that this could also apply to internet conversations of specific fields....in real life, you are less likely to sit down with someone on the other side of the world that is inexperienced in your field of expertise. Online, anomnity (or semi-anomnity through a username) allows us to speak whenever we please to and voice our own ideas about a particular subject. Trolls are the main reason why this sucks, and the other secondary reason is when a site like /. covers many subjects that aren't technology-related in the main RSS feed (that are more law-related than tech) and every technical person out there voices their own opinion as truth, because the site is geared towards tech news. Specialized sites that allow for discourse in specific areas (aka reddit) by allowing you to subscribe to your areas of interest and have a fairly intelligent conversation with a meme or two thrown in for humor is where the future lies, in my opinion.

I'm sure that there are errors in my thinking related to this, but I feel that discussing a field in a subreddit with someone truly interested in it that is a n00b halfway around the world has changed the way that I think and look at certain beliefs.

I remember dealing with someone who thought that anyone that loved anime couldn't hold an intelligent conversation to save their lives, so I sent them this link... http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/chicks-on-anime ...and views were changed quickly. I will definitely be submitting some of the future conversations to /. because of the homework and time put into these intelligent conversations.

tl;dr - Conversation is good.

You're link is wrong, surely you meant Accelerando, the most sold ero-manga in Japan?

Nah, it is already done ...
Planetes [animenewsnetwork]

There is a good anime that shows the result of large amount floating debris and how to deal with it.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2654

Lets learn from this and form a UN Space Garbage Agency. Yes that means you to Russia, its your sat, you clean it up!

Anyone else think of Chocolate Underground when they read this review?

FYI, Kou Otani is better known for film/anime music. He also created the soundtrack of the anime Haibane Renmei, which is absolutely superb, and I don't know anyone who didn't like it, anime-head or not.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/sound-decision/2003-08-10

If he really is a Papermaster then IBM better hope he doesn't tell them where to put the contract paper. Or worse, show them!

Maybe this guy's forefathers were masters of papers?

You mean like these people?-)

Probably more like this person. Why point to the sequel when the original is available? But who am I to talk; this was the first time I'd heard of this. No, I'm not a huge anime fan, but I occasionally watch it on CN, Spike, and G4. I'll keep my eye open for it.

Maybe this guy's forefathers were masters of papers?

You mean like these people?-)

Probably more like this person. Why point to the sequel when the original is available? But who am I to talk; this was the first time I'd heard of this. No, I'm not a huge anime fan, but I occasionally watch it on CN, Spike, and G4. I'll keep my eye open for it.

Maybe this guys forefathers were masters of papers?

You mean like these people?-)

This may be of interest to the people who aren't well informed: It was Production IG (the animation company who originally produced GITS and the GITS tv series) whom proposed the idea of creating a live action movie in the first place and shopped around for a studio on behalf of Kodansha (owner of the rights). Also, they will I believe be involved enough with the production of the movie. Here's an article from AnimeNewsNetwork which explains: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-01-18/production-i.g-enters-negotiations-for-live-action-ghost-in-the-shell Quote from above article: "Since the popularity of Ghost in the Shell in North America was a result of the anime produced by Production I.G., many are hopeful that a live-action film supported by the company will experience a similar level of success."

The main target for this act is to stop a file sharing program / network called Winny. Winny is one of the top File sharing program / network in Japan.

The creator is facing similar claims to that of the Bittorrent creator, where he has created a tool that can be used to share files with the advantage of being anonymous.

Consider that robots cost money, the country with more economic power is likely to be the winner in such a conflict. A large part of the U.S.A.'s success in WW2 was the sheer capacity of it's factories which were by if nothing but distance well defended against attack. European nations where under constant attack on their military infrastructure while American Factories where never bombed and even the concept of saboteurs blowing up factories in the States was a ridiculous notion to the Axis. Sure, Blow up the Pittsburgh bomb factory then you still have 20 more scattered about the US.

Robots won't be used simply because a robot doesn't have the discrimination as to who to attack and not to. Despite Orwellian fantasies, the practical upshot is that you would suffer to much friendly fire from such weapons and intense PR backlash. Sorry I don't see it happening.

Telepresence weapons are far more likely, as we have already seen in use.

Japan's Ministry of Agriculture has been denying their work on this. America is full of fully trained pilots for these crafts (Wii, Xbox, Playstation etc).

Suggested reading of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Robert Aspirin's Cold Cash War

And according to that same industry, said torrenting is killing them.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/editorial/2007-11-25
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/industry-comments/arthur-smith-open-letter-on-fansubbing

Fansubs do generate some buzz for a show. But they're a far cry from the "Necessary Evil" in the days of 2 Episode VHS releases. Frankly at this point I'd drop necessary from that descriptor, but that's just my opinion.

And according to that same industry, said torrenting is killing them.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/editorial/2007-11-25
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/industry-comments/arthur-smith-open-letter-on-fansubbing

Fansubs do generate some buzz for a show. But they're a far cry from the "Necessary Evil" in the days of 2 Episode VHS releases. Frankly at this point I'd drop necessary from that descriptor, but that's just my opinion.

Hmm... if this counts animated fully clothed underage children in suggestive poses, it would make owning a lot of non-hentai anime criminal as well, mostly of the "moe" genre. "Criminal" shows in this genre include everything from Kanon to Kodomo no Jikan.

Hmm... if this counts animated fully clothed underage children in suggestive poses, it would make owning a lot of non-hentai anime criminal as well, mostly of the "moe" genre. "Criminal" shows in this genre include everything from Kanon to Kodomo no Jikan.

Which part of the article's presentation was sensationalist? If anything, it reported the same details that was reported in Japanese anime press.

One reason you haven't seen a change in attitude is that the attitude has been in the Japanese anime distribution companies and studios for a while, before the Japanese government submitted this request. See these examples:

1999:
Sony

2002:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex scriptwriter Yoshiki Sakurai

2004:
Media Factory

2007:
Gonzo

2007:
Excel Saga director Shinichi Watanabe

There are other examples of this prevailing attitude such as the Japanese copyright holders' attempt to remove Death Note anime from YouTube. It's not a universally-held attitude (look up Read or Die director Koji Masunari's comments in 2002), but it's a long-standing attitude.

Egan Loo
Anime News Network

Which part of the article's presentation was sensationalist? If anything, it reported the same details that was reported in Japanese anime press.

One reason you haven't seen a change in attitude is that the attitude has been in the Japanese anime distribution companies and studios for a while, before the Japanese government submitted this request. See these examples:

1999:
Sony

2002:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex scriptwriter Yoshiki Sakurai

2004:
Media Factory

2007:
Gonzo

2007:
Excel Saga director Shinichi Watanabe

There are other examples of this prevailing attitude such as the Japanese copyright holders' attempt to remove Death Note anime from YouTube. It's not a universally-held attitude (look up Read or Die director Koji Masunari's comments in 2002), but it's a long-standing attitude.

Egan Loo
Anime News Network

Which part of the article's presentation was sensationalist? If anything, it reported the same details that was reported in Japanese anime press.

One reason you haven't seen a change in attitude is that the attitude has been in the Japanese anime distribution companies and studios for a while, before the Japanese government submitted this request. See these examples:

1999:
Sony

2002:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex scriptwriter Yoshiki Sakurai

2004:
Media Factory

2007:
Gonzo

2007:
Excel Saga director Shinichi Watanabe

There are other examples of this prevailing attitude such as the Japanese copyright holders' attempt to remove Death Note anime from YouTube. It's not a universally-held attitude (look up Read or Die director Koji Masunari's comments in 2002), but it's a long-standing attitude.

Egan Loo
Anime News Network

Which part of the article's presentation was sensationalist? If anything, it reported the same details that was reported in Japanese anime press.

One reason you haven't seen a change in attitude is that the attitude has been in the Japanese anime distribution companies and studios for a while, before the Japanese government submitted this request. See these examples:

1999:
Sony

2002:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex scriptwriter Yoshiki Sakurai

2004:
Media Factory

2007:
Gonzo

2007:
Excel Saga director Shinichi Watanabe

There are other examples of this prevailing attitude such as the Japanese copyright holders' attempt to remove Death Note anime from YouTube. It's not a universally-held attitude (look up Read or Die director Koji Masunari's comments in 2002), but it's a long-standing attitude.

Egan Loo
Anime News Network

>Thus far the Japanese animeka's and mangaka's have never protested.

Unfortunately, this is wrong, and the opinions of Japan's "inaction" are entirely based on ignorance. On multiple occasions, Japanese companies, staff, creators, and spokespeople have asked fansubbers to stop distributing various anime titles. Off the top of my head, there are three notable instances of Japanese companies directly asking for the stop of unlicensed titles via the Internet.

1999:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/1999-01-20/digital-anime-distribution-threatened-by-letter-from-sony
Sony asks Digital Anime Distribution to cease distribution of Rurouni Kenshin fansubs via their website. This was prior to Media Blaster's announcement of the North American rights to the series.

2002:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-12-06/production-i.g-calls-for-moderation-in-fan-subbing
Yoshiki Sakurai (writer) speaking on Production IG's company website, asked English-speaking anime fans to buy licensed anime products instead of downloading fansubs.

2004:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2004-12-09/media-factory-makes-request-to-stop-fansubbing
Media Factory demands AnimeSuki (a fansub bittorrent website) stop distributing their works. This was also sent to several of the groups that made the fansubs -- most of whom complied with the demands.

The anime industry's legal collaboration, J.A.I.L.E.D., also made one or two busts of major bootleg operations -- selling duplicated commercial tapes and fansubs -- in the 90s. I don't have sources for them, but you could probably find documentation of them via Usenet (rec.arts.anime or r.a.a.misc).

>Thus far the Japanese animeka's and mangaka's have never protested.

Unfortunately, this is wrong, and the opinions of Japan's "inaction" are entirely based on ignorance. On multiple occasions, Japanese companies, staff, creators, and spokespeople have asked fansubbers to stop distributing various anime titles. Off the top of my head, there are three notable instances of Japanese companies directly asking for the stop of unlicensed titles via the Internet.

1999:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/1999-01-20/digital-anime-distribution-threatened-by-letter-from-sony
Sony asks Digital Anime Distribution to cease distribution of Rurouni Kenshin fansubs via their website. This was prior to Media Blaster's announcement of the North American rights to the series.

2002:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-12-06/production-i.g-calls-for-moderation-in-fan-subbing
Yoshiki Sakurai (writer) speaking on Production IG's company website, asked English-speaking anime fans to buy licensed anime products instead of downloading fansubs.

2004:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2004-12-09/media-factory-makes-request-to-stop-fansubbing
Media Factory demands AnimeSuki (a fansub bittorrent website) stop distributing their works. This was also sent to several of the groups that made the fansubs -- most of whom complied with the demands.

The anime industry's legal collaboration, J.A.I.L.E.D., also made one or two busts of major bootleg operations -- selling duplicated commercial tapes and fansubs -- in the 90s. I don't have sources for them, but you could probably find documentation of them via Usenet (rec.arts.anime or r.a.a.misc).

>Thus far the Japanese animeka's and mangaka's have never protested.

Unfortunately, this is wrong, and the opinions of Japan's "inaction" are entirely based on ignorance. On multiple occasions, Japanese companies, staff, creators, and spokespeople have asked fansubbers to stop distributing various anime titles. Off the top of my head, there are three notable instances of Japanese companies directly asking for the stop of unlicensed titles via the Internet.

1999:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/1999-01-20/digital-anime-distribution-threatened-by-letter-from-sony
Sony asks Digital Anime Distribution to cease distribution of Rurouni Kenshin fansubs via their website. This was prior to Media Blaster's announcement of the North American rights to the series.

2002:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-12-06/production-i.g-calls-for-moderation-in-fan-subbing
Yoshiki Sakurai (writer) speaking on Production IG's company website, asked English-speaking anime fans to buy licensed anime products instead of downloading fansubs.

2004:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2004-12-09/media-factory-makes-request-to-stop-fansubbing
Media Factory demands AnimeSuki (a fansub bittorrent website) stop distributing their works. This was also sent to several of the groups that made the fansubs -- most of whom complied with the demands.

The anime industry's legal collaboration, J.A.I.L.E.D., also made one or two busts of major bootleg operations -- selling duplicated commercial tapes and fansubs -- in the 90s. I don't have sources for them, but you could probably find documentation of them via Usenet (rec.arts.anime or r.a.a.misc).

Actually, some anime creators have asked that unauthorized distribution of anime be stopped, regardless of its licensing status in North America. Some have gone on record on asking for this, such as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex scriptwriter Yoshiki Sakurai, Excel Saga director Shinichi Watanabe, and Romeo x Juliet's Gonzo. On the other hand, some anime creators such as Read or Die director Koji Masunari have implied their consent, and most have not made a comment either way.

Actually, some anime creators have asked that unauthorized distribution of anime be stopped, regardless of its licensing status in North America. Some have gone on record on asking for this, such as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex scriptwriter Yoshiki Sakurai, Excel Saga director Shinichi Watanabe, and Romeo x Juliet's Gonzo. On the other hand, some anime creators such as Read or Die director Koji Masunari have implied their consent, and most have not made a comment either way.