Or: which would you rather be supported by, a noisy, demanding minority who expect everything for free or a quiet, servile majority for whom putting their hands in their pockets is pretty much a reflex?
As for being able to 'try before you buy' by renting from an anime store or an online DVD service, this might be possible in the US (and then only major cities for the former), but is not in UK (where fansubs still have a major following).
I've already been speaking with my dollar.
I currently own over 400 Anime DVDs.
Your vote in favour of fansubs hasn't registered - for all the American licensees, never mind the Japanese originators, know you would have bought those anyway...
They're within their rights, but it's incorrect to talk about the Law as if fansubbing is criminal (i.e. illegal in itself) - this part of Civil Law (at least I think this is the case in the US as well as UK) exists to allow them to exercise their rights... but (just as do OSS authors), they can also choose not to. If they could be made to see that it's in their interests (indeed it was believed that several studios did see this) not to exercise those rights, then no one is in breach of any law.
I agree that if the argument is sound, no explicit boycotting needs to take place for sales to fall... but there's surely nothing wrong with giving that dynamic system a nudge!
If you're an honest user of these communities' work, react by not buying the licenses of those series where the studios don't let you see fansubs as preview.
If fansubbers' argument that they actually promote purchase of the English-language license is true then the Japanese studios will soon back off when their offerings are less competitive because American licensees' profits are lower.
Which answers a couple of long-standing questions of mine - is meta-moderation effective and does it undo the original moderation? (Also answers what I didn't think was a question - are you banned from posting in threads where you've meta-moderated and vice versa, like moderation?) Slashdot has become a strange old place, but I'm glad some people have some sense. Cheers, man.
Summary completely misses the point of the article that the new analysis was carried out on vanillin content of the fibres rather than carbon isotopes.
It's not errant, it's a quote!
Sir Tim was knighted by the Queen for a European invention and this has been reported on by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
It's nice that you chaps across the Pond care enough to relay this, and even nicer when we're properly quoted - don't spoil it with ignorance now!
Speaking as a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant... don't stick this on us!
I was raised Anglican in England and our level of puritanical hypocrisy (to steal a phrase) is nothing compared to our departed republican cousins across the Pond... I'm quite happy with physical non-sexual contact with other men.
(In response to another branch of the thread: I'm an academic, too!)
In the hopes of catching SciFi fans, could I recommend the fiction of Jeff Noon, especially 'Vurt' and 'Pollen', partly predicated on exactly this sort of development and its social consequences.
You sound like my parents complaining about "that damn rock music!"
The analogy's not even fair - unless those Rock musicians you listened to brought out the same album year after year, just reworked enough that you needed a whole new stereo to play it on!
I'm all in favour of a good rant now and then, and I think he did it well...
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TCP/IP (and C++) is a personal computing invention?
Are you trying to distinguish yourself from people who can't see beyond their Windows PC?
So if someone comes to their (physical) door and presents a laminated ID they pull down their trousers and bend over?
Portability between washing machine controllers...
I'm going to steal a DVD... and then upload it! (jk)
Or: which would you rather be supported by, a noisy, demanding minority who expect everything for free or a quiet, servile majority for whom putting their hands in their pockets is pretty much a reflex?
Can you back any of this up? Both bits seem to have major flaws to their actually, this way, achieving anything in the first place...
And only Slashdot would try to distinguish information from insight and then engage moderators with no appreciation of that distinction...
No, there are geographical, political and economic gaps there that make the situation very different (less direct)...
As for being able to 'try before you buy' by renting from an anime store or an online DVD service, this might be possible in the US (and then only major cities for the former), but is not in UK (where fansubs still have a major following).
Very true - most of the series fansubbed by the legitimate groups are broadcast...
They're within their rights, but it's incorrect to talk about the Law as if fansubbing is criminal (i.e. illegal in itself) - this part of Civil Law (at least I think this is the case in the US as well as UK) exists to allow them to exercise their rights... but (just as do OSS authors), they can also choose not to. If they could be made to see that it's in their interests (indeed it was believed that several studios did see this) not to exercise those rights, then no one is in breach of any law.
I agree that if the argument is sound, no explicit boycotting needs to take place for sales to fall... but there's surely nothing wrong with giving that dynamic system a nudge!
If you're an honest user of these communities' work, react by not buying the licenses of those series where the studios don't let you see fansubs as preview.
If fansubbers' argument that they actually promote purchase of the English-language license is true then the Japanese studios will soon back off when their offerings are less competitive because American licensees' profits are lower.
Which answers a couple of long-standing questions of mine - is meta-moderation effective and does it undo the original moderation? (Also answers what I didn't think was a question - are you banned from posting in threads where you've meta-moderated and vice versa, like moderation?) Slashdot has become a strange old place, but I'm glad some people have some sense. Cheers, man.
And? They didn't measure the radioactive breakdown, but the absolute amount of the compound - completely different effect and analysis.
Does make you wonder how two thousand year (or more) old ice cream would taste...
Summary completely misses the point of the article that the new analysis was carried out on vanillin content of the fibres rather than carbon isotopes.
TROLL?!? Why I fucking post on Slashdot these days, I don't know...
It's not errant, it's a quote! Sir Tim was knighted by the Queen for a European invention and this has been reported on by the British Broadcasting Corporation. It's nice that you chaps across the Pond care enough to relay this, and even nicer when we're properly quoted - don't spoil it with ignorance now!
Speaking as a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant... don't stick this on us!
I was raised Anglican in England and our level of puritanical hypocrisy (to steal a phrase) is nothing compared to our departed republican cousins across the Pond... I'm quite happy with physical non-sexual contact with other men.
(In response to another branch of the thread: I'm an academic, too!)
In the hopes of catching SciFi fans, could I recommend the fiction of Jeff Noon, especially 'Vurt' and 'Pollen', partly predicated on exactly this sort of development and its social consequences.
I'm all in favour of a good rant now and then, and I think he did it well...
If not, I may as well add: Time Travel!