So now that one Japanese company has started objecting to fansubs of unlicensed anime, maybe it's time to look into another mechanism of fansub distribution that the traditional video and sub in one package?
The most obvious thing that comes to mind is the ROM translation model. It allows the translator to release an IPS patch relatively free of copyrighted content. As it only contains instructions for changing the ROM, a group can distribute its translation without getting shut down like a common ROM site.
I believe newer video containers like ogm or mvk may support this kind of functionality. For example, releasing a small fansub script file timed and synced to an XYZ brand of raw video. Leaving it up to the viewer to find the raws and put the two together.
This kind of format could also be apt for manga scanlations, since their static nature makes them more similar to roms than video. The idea being a file that tells your image viewer which pixels to change in a set of raw images.
Or just the old practice (more popular among manga) of releasing the translated scripts as plaintext and letting the readers do the hard work.
But this definitely wouldn't solve the ethical problems with fansubbing, and I don't think it would solve the legal ones either. As an analogy, there has to be some mechanism in place to prevent a million different publishers from translating the latest Haruki Murakami novel and selling it here without his Japanese publisher's consent...
Ethical Shmethical. A hundred considerations can be made from any ethic stance, combined with legal, religious, economic or whatever backup. It doesn't matter, none of that will ever stop fansubs, simply because there will always be fansubbers who just don't give a shit about any of those ethical considerations.
And the legal problem is only a problem as long as people keep being as easily back-traceable as they are now. Just switch over to Share and whatever anonymous P2P software will come along and get done with it.
> fansubbers who just don't give a shit about any of those ethical considerations
Problem with those guys is they tend not to give a shit about quality either.
lol western working ethic
Either one of these methods requires you to be on Windows, because the raws themselves are only on Share and Winny.
>>7
Unless of course you wait a week after they are available on share/winny and get them from l33t-raws lolol
Share / Winny dont work on this pc :((
>>Problem with those guys is they tend not to give a shit about quality either.
Depends on which shitty group you apparently tried.
>>9
Why is that?
Have you configured everything correctly?