Singapore version of the RIAA starts cracking whip over Anime Downloads
The story is running its course across various blogs right now, but it turns out that a company known as ODEX in Singapore is sending out letters to various downloaders of anime torrents trying to enforce their obtained copyrights.
Impz at http://that.animeblogger.net/ as a result has announced his intention to most likely stop anything except administrative blogging as a result of this tactic by ODEX.
For a number of reasons this is a blow to the Fan Subbing community in a country that craves the latest and greatest Anime more then we do in the US. But the scary thing is how quickly this can come to the US and start being inforced on ALL content out of Japan, vs. just licensed anime which is occasionally enforced right now.
From a link at that, Riuva has posed the following two blogs with more examples and thoughts: ORZ's take, and a wonderful poam that describes one possible result and More technical information.
From my point of view, it is important for Copyright Holders to insist that they enforce their rights. Without doing this Copyright for everyone becomes unimportant and for future generations of thinkers and will make life impossible under an economey that is quickly shifting to the idea that the only way to get ahead is to make money off of your ideas, because making physical products may be too expensive compaired to selling your ideas.
Unfortinatly for license enforcement companies though, Henry Jenkins, an MIT Faculty member, has shown Japan's anime industry the way things could work if they just let the public select what they really want to watch rather then forcing it down our necks...
Impz at http://that.animeblogger.net/ as a result has announced his intention to most likely stop anything except administrative blogging as a result of this tactic by ODEX.
For a number of reasons this is a blow to the Fan Subbing community in a country that craves the latest and greatest Anime more then we do in the US. But the scary thing is how quickly this can come to the US and start being inforced on ALL content out of Japan, vs. just licensed anime which is occasionally enforced right now.
From a link at that, Riuva has posed the following two blogs with more examples and thoughts: ORZ's take, and a wonderful poam that describes one possible result and More technical information.
From my point of view, it is important for Copyright Holders to insist that they enforce their rights. Without doing this Copyright for everyone becomes unimportant and for future generations of thinkers and will make life impossible under an economey that is quickly shifting to the idea that the only way to get ahead is to make money off of your ideas, because making physical products may be too expensive compaired to selling your ideas.
Unfortinatly for license enforcement companies though, Henry Jenkins, an MIT Faculty member, has shown Japan's anime industry the way things could work if they just let the public select what they really want to watch rather then forcing it down our necks...