Comments on: How Japanese Anime house Gonzo avoided pirating by dropping DRM http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/08/how-japanese-anime-house-gonzo-avoided-pirating-by-dropping-drm/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:38:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: JC John Sese Cuneta http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/08/how-japanese-anime-house-gonzo-avoided-pirating-by-dropping-drm/comment-page-1/#comment-1022426 JC John Sese Cuneta Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:50:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=15073#comment-1022426 Wow.. thanks for this excellent news ^_^ Going to spread this news around, especially that here in the Philippines, the PAPT (Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team) recently announced that they are targetting downloaders and sharers next. (@Chris Meadows: It is similar to say that "animé" is wrong because there is no "é" in Nihongo :p Animation in Nihongo is "animeeshon" if correctly written in romaji. If we transliterate the Japanese animeeshon character-by-character, it will be "anime-shon" or syllabicate it "a.ni.me-.sho.n".) Wow.. thanks for this excellent news ^_^ Going to spread this news around, especially that here in the Philippines, the PAPT (Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team) recently announced that they are targetting downloaders and sharers next.

(@Chris Meadows: It is similar to say that “animé” is wrong because there is no “é” in Nihongo :p Animation in Nihongo is “animeeshon” if correctly written in romaji.

If we transliterate the Japanese animeeshon character-by-character, it will be “anime-shon” or syllabicate it “a.ni.me-.sho.n”.)

]]> By: Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/08/how-japanese-anime-house-gonzo-avoided-pirating-by-dropping-drm/comment-page-1/#comment-999280 Chris Meadows Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:48:20 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=15073#comment-999280 This is really, really cool. Up to this point, most animé companies have seen external markets as an afterthought—they made their shows for consumption in Japan, and didn't much care about anywhere else. That's why fansubbers were more or less left alone from the '80s up through the late '90s. Certainly that's why the <i>Macross</i> rights situation in Japan is messed up right now—one of the original studios sold international distribution rights for a song, and the other studio has been disputing whether or not they had those rights to sell. (I would be inclined to note, by the way, that "Japanese animé" is a redundancy, because "animé" means "Japanese animation." But that's a long-running argument with no clear winner. :) This is really, really cool.

Up to this point, most animé companies have seen external markets as an afterthought—they made their shows for consumption in Japan, and didn’t much care about anywhere else. That’s why fansubbers were more or less left alone from the ’80s up through the late ’90s.

Certainly that’s why the Macross rights situation in Japan is messed up right now—one of the original studios sold international distribution rights for a song, and the other studio has been disputing whether or not they had those rights to sell.

(I would be inclined to note, by the way, that “Japanese animé” is a redundancy, because “animé” means “Japanese animation.” But that’s a long-running argument with no clear winner. :)

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