金曜日, 8月 17, 2007
Posted some comments on ODEX on the straits times forum.. Not trying to be impartial, but this company really have too much loopholes for us, users to rely on them. Just realised that a few boxes of ONE PIECE animes which i've bought some time ago are acutally released by ODEX, and came to realise that the quality of these vcds are actually poorer of those by fan-subbing sites. I'm really disappointed with the government for backing up such a company instead of backing-up us consumers.
11:57 午後
LOLz...too much holidays made miya a lazy girl!! I didn't actually realise that today's friday until i took a peep at my handphone just now. Ever since the term test papers, i'd been slacking all the way and mapling everyday...
Yesterday we celebrated arthur's birthday in free market. What a crowd!! I even went to cs and bought some weird items..LOL, the congratulatory song! I played it about 3 times..
Sometimes, our guild seem to be cold cos everybody's training..It was until arthur's birthday bash till i realised our teamwork spirit is strong.. Almost everybody's present went to greet him.
Lately, the ODEX topic had been HOT HOT HOT!!! I even asked my maple friends to stop dl anime. LOL, arthur's birthday bash was surprising, can't believe i took 100 screenshots yeaterday...cool...
9:57 午前
水曜日, 8月 15, 2007
TO BE NOTED BY ALL READERS:
THE WRITTEN CONTENTS MENTIONED BELOW ARE PURELY PERSONAL COMMENTS & FRUSTRATIONS.
NO PURPOSE OF CAUSING CONFLICTS OR BIAS AGAINST THE SPECIFIC COMPANIES MENTIONED IN THE CONTENT ITSELF.
THE WRITTEN CONTENT ITSELF SHOULD ALSO NEITHER BE COPIED NOR PUBLISHED BY ANY OTHER PERSONS.
Readers and friends of my blog shall by now, be wondering why I am posting such a “WARNING” notice before the start of my entry despite that this is my personal blog. The purpose of me doing this is because I really DO NOT wish to be sued by the company named ODEX!!
Recently I received a very sad email from a close friend whom is an anime lover. He was being sued by ODEX company for downloading anime from the internet. It is very sad for me to hear that he would be fined (minimum of SGD 1000) by ODEX for downloading the anime contents. Therefore, I would like to vent my frustrations and anger and woes of such an act as an anime lover myself.
With the advancing of technology, the internet is widely been used throughout these years and downloads have been easily accessed whether it has been legal or illegal. Living in the Singapore continent, access to Japanese Animes have been difficult since our country do not have a specific channel which we can tune in to our favorite anime. Even though Singapore has Starhub Cable TV, which we can subscribe to the Animaxis Channel, the animes which are featured in the channel are neither “overwhelming” nor “interesting” animes which are being “chased” by teenagers or anime freaks. Therefore, where can we, the anime fans get to watch our favorite anime?
Why is it that downloading of anime is considered as illegal? Is it supposing to say that only by buying animes licensed by ODEX considered to be legal? What if even though we downloaded the latest episodes of the specific anime and watched it but delete it immediately after we’ve finished watching considered ourselves to be legal? Singapore is always behind time, for example, episodes of an anime like ONE PIECE is only until episode 100 whereas it is already the 319th episode in Japan, are things like that fair to the Singaporean Anime fans? If ODEX want anime viewers to buy their launched products, won’t it be more effective for them if they were to be able to keep up with upcoming episodes? If the people whom are sued by ODEX itself able to prove that they also bought the animes which they have downloaded in their original and not pirated version, will they be able to overpass the fine?
Since the launch of animes by ODEX is slow, why is it so that we, as consumers (since we pay for our internet subscription) need to pay the fines? Why not ODEX come to a compromise with Internet Providers Companies that consumers are able to download anime and watch but the Internet Providing Companies would be the ones to pay the copyright and licensing fees?
If ODEX still insist that it is wrong for the consumers to download anime, then they SHOULD be the ones to find out the cause of the problem rather than just by fining the people whom downloaded the animes. This is because I really feel that by fining the people whom downloaded would not be able to solve the problem itself. Other “downloaders” will only continue to download and ODEX would just have to continue to fine people. If ODEX think that by imposing fines would be fine to be continued with, then I am really having suspicions on this company. This is because ODEX is not solving the problem at all! Is the company itself just trying to “EARN” from all these massive fines to cover for their losses?
Since the internet is so easy to be accessed in, then why not fine the “FANSUB” organization instead? If there are no “fan-subbed” anime episodes available in the internet, do you think that we consumers would be able to download those episodes of anime? Or as ODEX company, are you trying to make use of those FAN-SUB organizations to just to nab the people who are downloading the anime?”
Besides, since I had studied “Entrepreneurship” before, fan-sub is a good way to publicize the various animes. It is actually a better way for u, ODEX company to earn and make money from the animes sold. Each and every new anime is actually passed from peer to peer by word of mouth before a person would actually watch the anime itself. Ask yourself, would you actually buy a box of newly launched anime by not even knowing the contents itself? Would you really come to know a Japanese anime when it is not even advertised on TV? --- Well, the answer I guessed is probably “NO”, because no fools would want to buy something which they did not even know what all is about. That is where anime fan-subs come in. I don’t deny that I never download animes from the internet before, but it is just that I would always buy the original versions whenever they are available in the market. Who in the world would not want to catch their favorite anime episode beforehand and catch up with the Japanese anime lovers? Each and every anime itself has its own interesting part. Since the fact is so, why is it that ODEX is so worried that collectors won’t want to buy them in their original version? Everybody would also want to watch their favorite anime with the best sounds and visual effects. Therefore, why is ODEX so worried?
Moreover, I feel that the “SUPER-SLOW” launch of the sale of the anime series by ODEX also make all anime lovers lose their interest in their favorite animes. Therefore, why the blame on the consumers? It is proven that one would lose their interest if they were made to wait for a long time, which is where the fan-sub providers actually come in. I am not stating that I support fan-sub, but it is true that by downloading and watching fan-sub, we actually are also expressing our love and patience for the upcoming original anime versions!! Why should ODEX make such a big fuss about all this? Is it because that the company is only focused on earning their profits since they feel that Singapore and other parts of South-East Asia are easy to “ATTACK” as the field of expose to Japanese anime is small?
Please do think for the consumers themselves!! Don’t you as the ODEX company feel that without the downloads of these anime fan-subs, your company is already on the verge of bankruptcy – due to the unfamiliarity of new launches of anime? Do consider that probability that if we were living in the past – where the VCRs are available and we record animes from TV series without ODEX permission, are we still considered to be illegally downloading? Should we still pay ODEX for the licensing and copyrights? If we are able to be connected to Japan’s media, and we record the animes directly via these Japanese media itself, are we still considered being illegal?
If ODEX still insist that it is so, then why not the company itself shifts its headquarters and sells these animes to the Japanese themselves instead? Or would it be better to ask SONY, PANASONIC, PIONEER, JVC and the other electronics companies not to come up with video-recording VCDs and DVDs players?
Furthermore, why aren’t we as consumers, been notified by the imposing of fines and what are the rights and wrongs of downloading, what is considered be wrong and etc. beforehand? Isn’t it always that downloading for personal use and not spreading piracy is considered a right way to do?
Finally, since many companies claim that by imposing fines to people who download would stop these various problems, then why didn’t they sue Bill Gates for inventing the internet? Why didn’t these companies fight claims and sue companies whom invent “TORRENT-DOWNLOADING” software? Why are the internet and these software made available when everyone have so much to SUE and SAY? Is the main use of the internet for posting craps and bullshits and the consumer should only use the internet to surf and search for craps and bullshits? If this is so, then why are torrent-downloading software made so easily available? Since everything is copyright protected, then what are torrents for? Why not sue and fine the sites posting those torrents instead?
Since everybody has a say in everything, why don’t you companies especially ODEX, hear our point of views?
11:40 午前
