XPost: alt.video.dvd, rec.arts.anime   
   From: robkelk@deadspam.com   
      
   Anti-Flag  wrote:   
   > "Anti-Flag"  wrote in message   
   > news:HDKMa.23285$fG.11594@sccrnsc01...   
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   >>Rob: my apologies for the rudeness of my post, even though the beliefs in   
   >>the post are what I see as true, I realise that my delivery of them was   
   >   
   > rude,   
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   >>and you have my apologies for that, that being said, id like to say more   
   >>(yay!)   
      
   It's okay - this is Usenet, and tempers often run high.  I'm used to it.   
      
   > #0.5 I assume that by "licenced" you mean legal or official releases.   
      
   Yes.   
      
   >>#1 ive never bought bootleg anime, as I never have money.   
   >   
   > or, atleast a credet card, and if did by "bootleg" anime, id buy unlicensed,   
   > fansubbd anime, or id buy the used licenced official releases anime at my   
   > video store, or at the used video store or form myt frinds (this all makes   
   > your prices go up more then piracy ever cold hope too.)   
      
   Well, the used official releases has already been paid for by someone   
   else, so the anime creators get a little bit of money from that.  (The   
   licence fee gets spread across the entire official DVD pressing run, so   
   each official DVD puts a couple of dollars back into the licence fee   
   fund.  Those licence fees go back to the original anime studios, who use   
   it to make more anime.)   
      
   While fansubs are technically illegal, I don't have a problem with them   
   if nobody charges any money for them (say, if they're downloaded from   
   IRC).  It's when people start charging for them, like the "Anime DVD   
   Movies" people appear to be doing, that I get upset...   
      
   >>#2 Company's use that excuse too much, the makers of CDs one said that   
   >>bootlegs make the cost of the CDs prices, now the same company's might be   
   >>owing CD buyers a lot of money for illegally boosting prices.   
      
   There is a difference between CDs and DVDs, though.  I can't see any   
   reason why a single CD should cost more than about $US10, or maybe $US12   
   for a niche release.  Anything higher than that is just profiteering by   
   somebody, IMHO.  But DVDs cost more to make than CDs do - I'd expect to   
   pay $US20-$US35 for one (the higher end being reserved for the DVDs with   
   plenty of extras).  Add in the licence fee that the official releasers   
   have to pay the original anime companies so that *they* can afford to   
   make more anime, and there's another $US2-$US5 per DVD...   
      
   >>#3 as we all know I am not very mature....   
      
   Who is?     
      
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