Comcast Targets Unlicensed Anime Torrenters

SailorSpork writes "According to a thread on the forums of AnimeSuki, a popular anime bittorent index site, Comcast has begun sending DCMA letters to customers downloading unlicensed fan-subtitled anime shows via bittorrent. By 'unlicensed', they mean that no english language company has the rights to it. The letters are claiming that the copyright holder or an authorized agent are making the infringement claims, though usually these requests are also sent to the site itself rather that individual downloaders. My question is have they really been in contact with Japanese anime companies, or is this another scare tactic by Comcast to try and reduce the bandwidth use of their heavier customers now that their previous tactics have come under legal fire?"

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This reminds me of AMD...

[DaedalusHKX]

The anime people are no different than AMD was.

They got their chips known for performance with the Athlon/K7 and the overclockers and tweakers (one of whom I once was, when I had more time and cash to blow on testing hardware and new rigs every few months.) Anyways, to cut to the chase, remember when AMD stopped their majority overclockers dead, and began to make it tougher and tougher to OC their chips? This despite the fact that the vast majority of tweakers ended up buying more and more AMD chips. It was basically AMD saying "thanks folks, you got us to be known as performance chip makers, and now here's us flipping you the bird, we got corporate marketshare now, we don't really give a shit anymore." This is exactly what the Japanese Anime studio/government bitch and moaners are doing. They got the US market interested through the fansubs (frankly until the corporate studio schmucks do as faithful a translation without americanizing the shows to "appease" to the masses, I prefer the fansubs most of the time... with VERY few exceptions. Vampire Hunter D is better in English, and Noir was good in both languages, IMHO.)