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Supporting the Anime Industry
zherok:
--- Quote from: CappinHoff on October 27, 2013, 05:36:30 AM ---Piracy exists for 1 reason... because we can.
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Nah, you can certainly price people out of your market.
Cable TV does it. Game of Thrones requires a cable tv subscription alongside a separate HBO subscription. Probably a minimum of $30 a month. Game of Thrones is incredibly pirated. On the flip side it's less likely to be done with something incredibly accessible, like say Breaking Bad. It costs me a quarter a day for Netflix even if I only want to watch Breaking Bad. Hell, Netflix even uses piracy rates to determine what shows they should try to go after.
Is anime there? I think Crunchyroll sits somewhere in between Netflix and HBOGo. It's a single service, with a Netflix like price ($7-12 a month.) But like HBO it's also incredibly niche. To the point that the whole reason Crunchyroll exists is because people were fansubbing it for free first.
The real question is whether anime is profitable at a price people aren't willing to bootleg it at. I have no real desire to bootleg Breaking Bad when it costs me a quarter a day. But even if anime is cheaper than it is in Japan I might not be willing to pay for a Netflix that only has anime.
brunoais:
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on October 26, 2013, 03:30:13 PM ---I wrote a blog about this nearly a year ago.
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... which is still a lot correct but companies are still too subborn to see that happening also because it will not happen suddendly it will happen, with luck, in a time frame of 2-3 years
EmptyMemory:
Something I found interesting is the way Hank Green is at least trying to adapt to the change in which video is being watched in today's age. He, along with his brother, have a fairly large subscription base on their YouTube channel, vlogbrothers, and now he's trying to find a different way in which he and people like him can earn a living from their video making efforts. While currently he gets compensated through YouTube's partnership program, he realizes his paycheques are reflections of the views he gets, instead of it being proportional to how much his viewers give a shit. And so, he created https://subbable.com/. Subbable gives viewers the power to "support the projects they love in an ongoing way."
If I could do this for anime, I would, without a doubt. At Subbable, viewers give what they feel is appropriate, and it's pretty cool to see that Subbable has, for instance, earned Crash Course 93% of their monthly funding goals.
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on October 26, 2013, 11:52:33 PM ---This thread is useless as it is.
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Cool story bro. I could initiate a whole other discussion about why talking about the things we care about in a meaningful way is important to supporting them, but honestly, I suspect that doing so with you would be no more productive than sticking my head in a vacuum.
So instead, I'll insist that you and your ill mannered atmosphere bugger off.
Tiffanys:
I thought he didn't get money through YT since he doesn't have ads?
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: EmptyMemory on October 27, 2013, 11:15:57 AM ---Something I found interesting is the way Hank Green is at least trying to adapt to the change in which video is being watched in today's age. He, along with his brother, have a fairly large subscription base on their YouTube channel, vlogbrothers, and now he's trying to find a different way in which he and people like him can earn a living from their video making efforts. While currently he gets compensated through YouTube's partnership program, he realizes his paycheques are reflections of the views he gets, instead of it being proportional to how much his viewers give a shit. And so, he created https://subbable.com/. Subbable gives viewers the power to "support the projects they love in an ongoing way."
If I could do this for anime, I would, without a doubt. At Subbable, viewers give what they feel is appropriate, and it's pretty cool to see that Subbable has, for instance, earned Crash Course 93% of their monthly funding goals.
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on October 26, 2013, 11:52:33 PM ---This thread is useless as it is.
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Cool story bro. I could initiate a whole other discussion about why talking about the things we care about in a meaningful way is important to supporting them, but honestly, I suspect that doing so with you would be no more productive than sticking my head in a vacuum.
So instead, I'll insist that you and your ill mannered atmosphere bugger off.
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It is useless. How many related threads do we have roaming around here? I can recall at least two more.
And you can eat shit since you have such little weak young skin.
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on October 27, 2013, 12:04:26 AM ---
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on October 27, 2013, 12:01:29 AM ---I am hitting my quirks without going to sleep. Oh well, kill La KILL ep. 4, commencing.
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Maybe you'll wake up at 4am lol.
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I woke up at 8:30 AM, haha.
--- Quote from: zherok on October 27, 2013, 07:04:58 AM ---
--- Quote from: CappinHoff on October 27, 2013, 05:36:30 AM ---Piracy exists for 1 reason... because we can.
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Nah, you can certainly price people out of your market.
Cable TV does it. Game of Thrones requires a cable tv subscription alongside a separate HBO subscription. Probably a minimum of $30 a month. Game of Thrones is incredibly pirated. On the flip side it's less likely to be done with something incredibly accessible, like say Breaking Bad. It costs me a quarter a day for Netflix even if I only want to watch Breaking Bad. Hell, Netflix even uses piracy rates to determine what shows they should try to go after.
Is anime there? I think Crunchyroll sits somewhere in between Netflix and HBOGo. It's a single service, with a Netflix like price ($7-12 a month.) But like HBO it's also incredibly niche. To the point that the whole reason Crunchyroll exists is because people were fansubbing it for free first.
The real question is whether anime is profitable at a price people aren't willing to bootleg it at. I have no real desire to bootleg Breaking Bad when it costs me a quarter a day. But even if anime is cheaper than it is in Japan I might not be willing to pay for a Netflix that only has anime.
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The problem with Anime is the high prices they charge. Sometimes it feels like it is about right since they include a bunch of extras and a nice case with it but sometimes it feels like "Well, this is too expensive". I wish they would cut the costs by half.
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