Singapore cracks down on anime piracy

• digicharat

  27 Oct 07, 09:53

  woohoo!
  no more fansub! anime community dies off slowly! japan can kiss their foreign market bye bye! earn lesser profit, not much budget for good anime, japan anime market also dies off!
  woohoo! i hope it happens.
• Gordonator

  27 Oct 07, 11:58

  Originally posted by abao:

  If ODEX has not dealt the killer blow to us, then this one might......
  
  http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-10-23/japan-asks-america-to-stop-illegal-net-releases-of-anime

  the Japanese government don't understand that millions of otakus worldwide will die if there aren't fansubs and filesharing.
  
  it's just like people need air to breathe, what will happen if air sluppy is suddenly cut off?
  
  sign... what do they care right? whether we live or die...
• hisoka

  27 Oct 07, 12:16

  without fansubs, their sales is going to drop so much
• xoxbox

  29 Oct 07, 10:53

  eewww government are all greedy dogs man.. BURN THEIR HOUSE !!!
  
  hope they will stop their childish acts
• Terribear

  31 Oct 07, 14:13

  Any updates on the ODEX issue?
  
  Seems like their appeal is being heard by a different judge now, Justice Woo Bih li,
  
  can find his profile on Wiki...
  
  I think this doesnt bode well for fan-sub supporters in Singapore.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  31 Oct 07, 14:29

  Originally posted by Terribear:

  Any updates on the ODEX issue?
  
  Seems like their appeal is being heard by a different judge now, Justice Woo Bih li,
  
  can find his profile on Wiki...
  
  I think this doesnt bode well for fan-sub supporters in Singapore.

  http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=274350&page=21
  
  See tamago's posts.
• abao

  31 Oct 07, 21:44

  Originally posted by ^tamago^:
  Odex just won't quit
  Company allowed to present evidence to obtain identities of downloaders
  TODAYonline
  Wednesday • October 31, 2007
  Zul Othman
  [email protected]
  
  ANIME distributor Odex is not letting up in its quest to bring illegal anime downloaders to book.
  
  At a closed-door hearing yesterday in the High Court, Justice Woo Bih Li allowed Odex to present further evidence to obtain the identities of Pacific Internet subscribers who had unlawfully downloaded anime.
  
  The company's application to access about 1,000 names had stalled two months ago when District Judge Ernest Lau ruled that Odex was only a sub-licensee for anime titles and had no right of civil action.
  
  But in its appeal against the ruling, Odex has been allowed to present evidence to address the points raised by Judge Lau, for example, pertaining to the reliability of the tracking solution provided by Silicon Valley-based Internet investigators Bay-TSP and whether the company was in fact engaged by Odex to undertake such investigations.
  
  Since May, Odex has been cracking down on illegal downloaders and was successful in getting court orders to reveal the identities of culprits who subscribe to two other Internet service providers, SingNet and StarHub.
  
  Odex director Peter Go declined to reveal any information about the new evidence, as the matter will be heard again in court. No date has been set for the next hearing. [/b]

  Yes...the moment i see the judge name i aso sian 1/2 liao...... is the good days to the community gone for good?
  
  the loss of the community is the loss of all anime distro and anime companies. it will mean a reduced coverage and incentive to buy anime, unless one is loaded.
  
• Phaze

  7 Nov 07, 15:34

  Originally posted by digicharat:

  woohoo!
  no more fansub! anime community dies off slowly! japan can kiss their foreign market bye bye! earn lesser profit, not much budget for good anime, japan anime market also dies off!
  woohoo! i hope it happens.

  But why would stopping fansubs cause them to earn lesser profit? They don't earn money from fansubs right?
  
  Unless of course, what you are saying is that the anime is basically just advertising for the merchandise and if fansubs decline, demand of figurines, etc. will go down.
  
  So I guess what they have to do is to find that balance.
• stellazio

  7 Nov 07, 15:38

  they will soon realize that its fansubs who help promotes animes which then further converts people into otakus, who are then payers of anime merchandizes.
• Gordonator

  7 Nov 07, 21:00

  when is this madness gonna stop?
• Gordonator

  22 Nov 07, 01:25

  good news!
  
  now is 22/11/07 1.16AM. ODEX website is hacked by hackers unhappy with their doings!
  
  http://www.odex.com.sg/
  
  in case the website is back to normal by the time u read this.
  
  here's the html file i saved
  http://download.yousendit.com/262E0B487160526A
  
  lol. those SOB got 0wn3d again. haha. GG!
• freedom4ever

  22 Nov 07, 01:45

  Originally posted by Gordonator:

  good news!
  
  now is 22/11/07 1.16AM. ODEX website is hacked by hackers unhappy with their doings!
  
  http://www.odex.com.sg/
  
  in case the website is back to normal by the time u read this.
  
  here's the html file i saved
  http://download.yousendit.com/262E0B487160526A
  
  lol. those SOB got 0wn3d again. haha. GG!

  
  got even teach you how to download without getting caught.
• tortoise55

  25 Nov 07, 18:56

  This is seriously funny
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFGSvhiUbXk
• jay_rocks

  29 Nov 07, 17:56

  now odex got the jap anime co. which license those anime to sg and sue pacnet .
• BrUtUs

  14 Dec 07, 01:05

  appeal result still not out?
• Gordonator

  15 Dec 07, 20:38

  Originally posted by BrUtUs:

  appeal result still not out?

  closed door event. not open to public and media.
• abao

  28 Dec 07, 21:41

  Breaking news: Japan pushes for online content regulation
  
  http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/28/0229250
  
  http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/16/japan-final-report-on-internet-regulation/
  
  http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/23/japan-economics-of-the-illegal-download/
  
  http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-12-20/japanese-panel-pushes-ban-on-illegal-downloads-forward
  
  http://drmchsr0.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/the-son-of-i-did-not-see-this-coming-and-i-am-shocked-shocked-at-the-news/#comment-31140
  
  This was initiated by the RIAJ, and the Government decided to push for the change in law, despite severe opposition from the people and major corporations......
• ndmmxiaomayi

  28 Dec 07, 21:46

  Are they going to be another Great Wall or North Korea?
• abao

  28 Dec 07, 22:35

  I dunno... what's for sure is that if Japan regulates the internet, their content creation business will suffer more than the supposed benefits it brings.
  
  And in Japan, it has been proven that downloading does not compete with sales, coz of the good practices Japan has fostered over the past 20-30 years... its like breaking the bridge after helping build a section of it
  
  I do buy the merchandise one lor...
• ndmmxiaomayi

  28 Dec 07, 22:40

  Japan might have a change of mind. I don't think the businesses there will allow themselves to suffer.
• BrUtUs

  30 Dec 07, 23:36

  they now become $$$ minded liao ah...
• abao

  20 Jan 08, 18:10

  bump
  
  http://drmchsr0.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/invisible-amerikan-animu-scene/
  
  http://www.darkmirage.com/2008/01/14/anime-dvd-industry-approaching-limit/#more-1021
• digicharat

  23 Jan 08, 16:19

  Originally posted by abao:

  bump
  
  http://drmchsr0.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/invisible-amerikan-animu-scene/
  
  http://www.darkmirage.com/2008/01/14/anime-dvd-industry-approaching-limit/#more-1021

  woohoo!!!
  good good! anime dying!!!
• Gordonator

  30 Jan 08, 00:21

  newest update. won the battle but lost thewar. :-(

  http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/Courts+and+Crime/STIStory_201361.html

   

• dumbdumb!

  30 Jan 08, 00:32

  Originally posted by Gordonator:

  newest update. won the battle but lost thewar. :-(

  http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/Courts+and+Crime/STIStory_201361.html

   

  oh dear. suck thumb... at least they fought a good fight and died a matyr's death