/anime/ - Anime

japanese being fiercely anti-piracy isn't new, it's like they have a visceral reaction whenever discussions of piracy pop up and they get extra mad if americans start making arguments that piracy is benefiting game sales and similar

>>30055
Hierarchy and nationalism
If the person above them says its bad they believe it. If they are told its a threat to the country/culture they'll fight to the death.

>>30056
Nintendo sued Blockbuster video and tried to pass laws to prevent video game rentals due to muh piracy. Video game rentals are illegal in Japan. Cucked gamer nation

>>30056
Piracy is technically illegal in majority of western nations but is more common so I think it's moreso a cultural issue perhaps because gaming is more centered on consoles.

not only treating the creators of a game as a sort of political authority but also judging it as idiocy/ignorance to disobey such an authority. terminally bootlicker country, holy shit.

no real concrete stats exist saying whether or not piracy is actually beneficial to creators, still pirating your shit though 24/7

>>30102
It usually is but physical media of TV shows just ain't it, this is a big thing in Japan but very few people care about this kind of stuff outside of there. If it were manga or books with official translations, people would 100% buy it.

>>30102
>w-why are ppl pirating my stuff?
co-creator of Gachiakuta, suggesting you should just skip meals to buy manga
>>30103
logh is infamous for being ridiculously priced, $800 usd, no staggered release and just a massive overpriced collectors box

>>30102
>no real concrete stats exist saying whether or not piracy is actually beneficial to creators
it probably isn't in general, but in the particular world we live in where piracy is already widespread, the tradeoff is most people pirating your content but then buying merch/etc vs most people not watching your content at all. "most people legitimately paying for the content itself" is no longer a real possibility

>>30102
How many people would have bought it at all without piracy? Not just LOGH specifically, but without the wider online fan/scan community laying the ground work the anime/manga industry wouldn't have nearly the global reach that it does.

And also "I already saw it so why buy it" involves a lot more than just piracy. Streaming in particular jas cultivated a mindset among a whole swathe of consumers that buying shit is superfluous. You've got tons of physical devices which don't even accept physical media any more. Christ, some phones don't even have headphone jacks any more.

>>30114
>especially in Japan where the dominant party is heavily tied to the Aum Shinrikyo cult.
Do you have some literature on this? I would like to learn more.

>>30113
If it's like video games, the first thing that would've made it global was import by rich fucks who made a specialized shop in the bougiest place in the country, but then the simple fact that it's in japanese (and reading is mandatory, unlike an atari) would've forced "fan translation" who people decry as piracy anyway, even though you can't fucking read the vast majority of mangas without those.

>>30116
I guess to a certain extent you're right. Like, studio proteus was one of the few importing and localizing manga in the late 80s early 90s iirc, and while japanimation wasn't totally unknown with Gigantor, Speed Racer, and Astro Boy before that, but I think the bulk of the heavy lifting really came from online hobbyists making shit available to people, coupled by a big boost from Toonami putting up DBZ, Gundam Wing, and Cowboy Bebop.

>>30115
something tells me they meant the unification church, the aum shinrikyo is the crazy murder everyone cult with sarin gas