@azusa_maxima Pirate is now a more fun term. Think of Pirates of the Caribbean or for the kiddies, peter Pan or Jake and the Neverland Pirates. Its become more of a “rob from the rich and give to the poor” type of mindset.
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TommyC
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ふと思ったけど海賊版は英語だとpiracyでまんま海賊行為とか著作権侵害の意味だから普通にマイナスの言葉なんよな
なのにわざわざこの言葉を使って自分たちがやってることは違法ですと言ってるの？
じゃあ企業の利益になってる云々って話は何だったの？
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@ManchMayor There was a direct correlation from my crappy grades in college and the professor not speaking English. All other classes i got As. The others, Cs. Just couldnt understand what they were saying and im not the type of student to just read from a textbook.
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I dropped out of an Econ class that was taught by a Nigerian woman.
First day she put up on the projector:
"You may not understand me, but I actually speak perfect English. Just follow along on the projector if you can't understand me."
DEI for sure. Doesn't even understand what it means to speak a language perfectly.
Dane@UltraDane
This is so fucked. The smartest kid in class is failing because he cant understand a word she says.
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@feminist_tokyo I literally just watched some DBZ episodes yesterday from my dvd set. Also watched MHA on streaming as well recently.
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海外の兄弟達に聞きたいのですけど…。
海賊版の話で、逆に海賊版ではない日本のアニメを真面目に見てる人っているの？（と、疑いたくなってきた）
まともな方法で見てる人は、その方法も教えて欲しい。
Netflixとか、Amazonとか、それともDVDとかなのかな。
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@jonnygamerjp @YD20250410 I just bought a few mangas on my recent Japan trip. Unfortunately i could only fit a few in my luggage. Perhaps people dont want to spend thousands of hours learning a language and thousands of dollars to come there and buy them.
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@JakeeLee23 @YD20250410 アメリカで売ってなくて、
翻訳されてなかったとしても
オリジナルを買って自分で
勉強して翻訳して読め
なぜその発想がないのか
結局自分に都合がいい理由をつけ
泥棒しているにすぎない
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En este mundo existen alrededor de 7.000 idiomas. ¿Significa eso que si los japoneses no pueden traducir una obra a esos 7.000 idiomas, deben renunciar a los derechos sobre su trabajo?
Las personas “normales” de la comunidad internacional se oponen a esa fantasía que tienes. No importa el contexto en el que te encuentres, los autores japoneses tienen derecho a sus obras. Eso es precisamente lo que es el copyright.
Si existe un manga que consideras tan imprescindible que estás dispuesto a violar los derechos de otros y poner en riesgo su sustento, entonces deberías dirigirte a tu gobierno o a la comunidad internacional.
No obligues a los trabajadores artísticos de otros países a sacrificarse por tus deseos.
🚀Eu, uma Meteca Metafísica🚀@PorreBrasil
@YD20250410 @RefugioLibre @higureshuuen Ok, amigo como eu compro uma obra que não existe e não está disponível no meu país? Você tem um bom ponto. Mas te devolvo: O Japão tem mesmo interesse em promover seus artistas em âmbito global? Se tem, pq tantas obras boas não chegam aos clientes em potencial pelas vias legais?
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@Sephiroth662 @jason_sneed @mog_russEN Not nearly. Yes its the trucks fault but those 2 bozos were completely oblivious to their surroundings. No way you dont hear/see that big thing coming.
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@jason_sneed @mog_russEN He clearly wasn’t paying attention to where he was going and it’s his job to make sure he doesn’t back in and hit anyone or anything would you blame a parked car for being in the way if he backed in that instead of running over 2 people
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🚨⚡️Surveillance cameras showed a crash where two women were run over by an armored truck in Chile while it was reversing. The driver was arrested, and the injured women were taken to the hospital for treatment.
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@KeenanPeachy @ChrissieMayr I grew up in the 80s loving star wars. Wasnt in love with the prequels but at least it added to the story. Also opened up the novels to so much lore. I stopped caring about this, so much so rhat i started selling off my collection. Toys, books, whatever. Just have no love anymore
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I was at Disney when the Land launched. In fact, I personally wrote a lot of the copy for the Star Wars Land rides and the Star Wars hotel in the marketing materials and for the website.
When I say there was crushing disappointment, almost a feeling of betrayal that the whole thing was on the new IP and not the original IP, I am not exaggerating.
Disney made the decision to invest this money in order to support the new trilogy, which they thought would erase the old one in the minds of fans. The level of hubris around this is one for the business industry history books.
Bob Chapek, who was head of Parks at the time (since fired in disgrace), was in charge of greenlighting all creative in Star Wars Land. He killed things like a lifesize Bantha ride where guests would ride around the land on top of a Bantha. He killed the live show at the cantina. And most importantly, he gave the land its own lame subplot where you had to use your phone to scan kiosks and get some code messages deciphered so you were "part of the Resistance," but it had no payoff.
Then reality struck: they made a trilogy that destroyed the OG characters. They elevated an insufferably annoying mary sue girl boss, added a pathetic loser son of Han, a divorced Leia and Han, a disillusioned and bitter Luke, and then killed Luke, Han, and Leia.
Result: JJ Abrams' career was finished as a filmmaker. Rian Johnson was wrecked. Kathleen Kennedy is finally out as head of Lucas. Chapek out. Disney movies are garbage. The greatest entertainment IP ever created was lit on fire to appease the egos of the geniuses who bought it and thought they could outdo the original genius.
And now it's too late. No one cares that Darth will be walking around again to John Williams score. The new Leia face character looks like Brenda from HR.
By the way, Tomorrowland already HAD Stormtrooper) (the original ones, not the new fat ones_, Jedis, and Darth in a wonderful live show for years. My kids all took part in light saber battles against Darth Vader many times. It was hilarious and thrilling. Killed in favor of the new slop.
Absolutely over.
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
Disney spent $1 billion in 2019 building a Star Wars theme park where you were not allowed to meet Luke, Leia, Han, or Darth Vader. Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland was set on Batuu, a backwater planet in a narrow window between The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. By that timeline Luke was dead. Han was dead. Vader had died 30 years earlier. Leia was alive but had no canonical reason to show up at an outer rim smuggler outpost. Imagineer Scott Trowbridge spelled out the design rule in 2022. Characters on Batuu would stay locked to their specific era. No visitors from other Star Wars timelines. The immersion was the entire point. In practice guests flew to Anaheim for Star Wars and walked through a $1 billion set to meet Vi Moradi and Dok-Ondar. The locals of Black Spire Outpost. The parallel failure was Galactic Starcruiser. $5,000 for two nights in the same sequel-era window. No Luke, no Vader, no Han, no Leia. Disney wrote down $250 million to close it 18 months after opening. On April 29, Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland abandons the rule. Darth Vader will roam Batuu hunting Luke. Leia and Han will appear at the Millennium Falcon. Kylo Ren is being pulled from the land and relocated to Tomorrowland. The ambient Batuu music gets replaced with the John Williams score. Disney spent seven years defending the design principle. Then Galactic Starcruiser closed with a $250 million write-down. Luke Skywalker showed up for one limited event last year and got swarmed by guests. The rule quietly got dropped. Avengers Campus figured this out on day one. You put Captain America in the Avengers land.
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@indexnforgetit Apparently car batteries are not cheap anymore. Mine was like almost $300. Would never pay labor for it, but dont think youre getting away with $150 anymore. Not on a more modern car.
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My boomer take is things like this are expensive because men like this won't take 15 minutes to install their own $150 battery
Andy Walker - Local SEO@andywalkerhq
Battery died in my car. Called a mobile repair business. This is what they quoted me for replacement. What do you guys think?
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@it_unprofession I just dont go anywhere anymore that does this. Sucks but im not going to be bullied into giving a tip to someone that does nothing and was never tipped before. So try to make me feel uncomfortable, i will no longer shop at your store.
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I just tipped 20% on a bottle of water I grabbed out of a mini-fridge myself.
I brought it to the counter.
The cashier didn't even scan it.
He just pushed a button and spun the POS terminal around.
The screen suggested 20, 25, or 30 percent.
For a moment, I considered finding the custom tip option.
But there was a line of people behind me.
The cashier was making direct, unblinking eye contact.
I folded under the pressure of a digitized guilt trip.
I paid $4.80 for a Poland Spring.
I basically gave a teenager a dollar to legally supervise me purchasing hydration.
He didn't even offer a receipt.
He just spun the tablet back around and looked away.
I said thank you.
I thanked him for letting me give him extra money.
I am part of the problem.
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@trasselvardias @jovtobehannes This guy has 590 sex a year and is complaining??
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Do you condemn piracy (e.g downloading anime, movies, games...)?
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@Rongchang @YD20250410 Like buying a 40 year nintendo game. I really want to play Little Samson. No way of purchasing a new copy. Ebay has it for $2,500. Even so who would benefit from me buying the real cartridge? So ill just download the rom. I have no moral dilemma with that.
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@JakeeLee23 @YD20250410 絶版だろうが、だいたいの本には中古の現物が存在する。
購入代理サービスで中古を求めても、それでも手に入らないレベルの作品とは具体的に何を指しているんだ？
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@V7NnRqa0uZbvFqZ The last one i only dont get because you fight back saying its wrong. You dont want to translate nor sell it in my region? Fine. Thats your prerogative. But dont shame people into wanting to partake in your work when you gave them no ability to do so.
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@YD20250410 My claim is that if you werent selling it in America not translating it into English, then i didnt actually steal anything from you because i pirated it and had it translated. There was no avenue for me to pay for your work so there was no money stolen.
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@Rongchang @YD20250410 And i dont agree with that. There are levels to this argument. 1. The work is old and out of print. 2. The work is current but unavailable to me cause of language/access. 3. The work is too expensive. 4. The translation sucks. Ill justify 1 and 2. No more.
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@JakeeLee23 @YD20250410 そしたら「翻訳が余りにクソなので、私たちは海賊版を利用してる」って言うじゃん
実際にそういう言い訳を何度も見たぞ
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@YD20250410 Who is mocking anyone? You are making the “reductio ad absurdum” argument about 7k languages. When in reality the arguments are over English/Russian/Spanish, extremely popular ones and very easy to translate with todays tech. And ill read whatever i damn well please.
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@JakeeLee23 자기 권리를 지키려는 작가들을 조롱하고 협박하는게 네가 만화를 대하는 방식이라면,
넌 인권에 대해서도 말하지말고 만화도 보지마.
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@shephard_twitte @mimi2345_ Nobody is losing any money whatsoever in this argument that OP is making. Just think of it as some colony on Mars is reading your manga. You had no way of accepting their money, so you didnt lose anything if they are reading it or not.
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@mimi2345_ 誰も損をしないというのも大いなる勘違い
どういう媒体のどういうものかにもよるが、海賊版が横行する事で、例えば後々多言語版の展開を考えていたのに商機を潰しかねないといった「先の展望」を潰している、これを損と言わず何と言うんです？
もっと言うなら、権利者の作品に対する権利を侵しています
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「売られてない＝合法的には手に入らない」場合には、それを手に入れるには海賊版しかあり得ない訳ですよね。逆になぜダメと考えてるか分かりません。誰も損しないでしょう。
山中@yamanakanobody
正規品が手に入らないから海賊版を手に入れて当たり前だろと言う意見を見てびっくり！
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@YellowFlashGuy I remember watching 1 dub and Vegeta saying “oh its too bad those buildings were empty that we destroyed”. Im like, no f’ing way he said that.
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@tsukaniki85 Japan just has a way different corporate culture than America, or anywhere else. The ceo of nintendo took a 50% pay cut after the wii u failure to prevent layoffs. That would NEVER happen in America. So you guys just have a better idea of working together.
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日本では何百年も前から『お恵みくださるお上には絶対逆らってはいけない』って価値観が何百年も前から植え付けられているのに反して、西洋は『王であろうと我々は人民の正義のためであれば反逆するし神でさえ殺す』って価値観で歴史を紡いできたからな。
だから海賊版に関して面白いほど噛み合わない
Lunchbox🐔💋@fishin4l0ve
Theres the whole like japanese perspective on media piracy argument going on, and the one thing i keep seeing is "but do you not realize that pirating harms the company?" and I dont think alot of them realize in the west we LOVE seeing companies get harmed, even ones we like
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@gorushi6525 @aoshiroyama Not exactly true. I have many bootleg vhs tapes of dbz, the. Bought the real dvd set when it came out years later. Can think of another example or 2 about movies i purchased. Also own the entire nes/snes collections on roms but will keep buying the real ones when i can
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@aoshiroyama 将来貴方のところに正規版が普及した時に海賊版を所有している人は正規版を買わない可能性が高いですよね？その場合は作者には本来入ってくる利益が入りませんよ。
いやそもそも海賊版が出回ってる地域だから回収が見込めないと判断して貴方のところでは出版社が正規版を出さないのかもしれませんね。
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Я очень смеюсь из-за срачей с японцами за пиратство, потому что они говорят, что авторы теряют прибыль, но…. если я не могу купить продукт, значит на прибыль от меня и не рассчитывают… и если я спирачу продукт, который мне не планировали продавать, о какой прибыли речь?..
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