With piracy so utterly rampant in the anime industry, companies are trying to find different ways to provide legal copies of their material to consumers. Sites like Crunchy Roll and publishers like FUNimation stream old and c...
| Pedro Cortes |
Well that was fast.Last Thursday, the Fractale Production Committee told FUNimation that they were stopping their simulcast of Fractale. What they wanted FUNimation to do was "eliminate all unauthorized videos ...
| Bob Muir |
Okay Japan, we get it, you've got a tough stance on piracy and people stealing content. That's why you'll throw the book at the occasional small offense while many big offenses go unpunished in the West, especially in places ...
| Bob Muir |
I know what you're thinking. PDF scanned manga certainly is a new thing. Piracy, right? We told you earlier how Love Hina creator Ken Akamatsu plans to fight the good fight by distributing PDF versions of his work f...
| Dale North |
Say you've spent your life breaking into people's houses and stealing stuff. You haven't been caught so far, so it makes sense that you'd want to continue keeping a low profile, right? So you would avoid, say, publishing a bo...
| Bob Muir |
Now this is how publishers should go about the icky piracy issue. Ken Akamatsu, the master pervy mangaka behind Love Hina and Mahou Sensei Negima, will be opening a website called J-Comi that will distribute out-of-print mang...
| Pedro Cortes |
Ouch. If you didn't know it yet, the incident Lauren has dubbed "OreImo-gate" happened. While simulcast leaks aren't exactly new, The Anime News Network was a relatively new entry into the field. As such, some face-...
| Josh Tolentino |