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General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: The D on Jun 30, 2005, 09:50:18 PM

Title: Should I pay money to dl anime?
Post by: The D on Jun 30, 2005, 09:50:18 PM

I cannot download any anime that's not out on DVD. Torrents refuse to work at school even though I try to tell them to search ports I know are open. Most file sharing programs don't connect at all to their networks when I use them, except for emule.

There are large communities out there that have dedicated servers where you can download fansubs. The problem is these communities require a fee, such as $6 a month, to access the anime.

Should I sign up for one of these? I swear if I can not download fansubbed anime soon, I'll kill someone of my choosing in some horrible way, probably by running them over and then stabbing them with a rusty railroad spike. I'm sick of not being able to see the stuff everyone else is watching.

Title: Should I pay money to dl anime?
Post by: PapaMidnight on Jun 30, 2005, 09:59:17 PM

$6 a month doesn't sound like a lot of money. But what do I know.

Title: Should I pay money to dl anime?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jun 30, 2005, 10:39:16 PM

Distributing fansubs and anime is one thing. When you start paying for it then it's really hard not to think of it as piracy.

Title: Should I pay money to dl anime?
Post by: The D on Jun 30, 2005, 10:48:09 PM

Well in this case they say it's for bandwith and server fees, which I can kinda see if you're hosting, say, 140 episodes of Naruto, and 26 episodes of several other series, and x amount of episodes for other series, and each episode is 150-300mb each.

Title: Should I pay money to dl anime?
Post by: B E C K on Jul 02, 2005, 07:21:28 PM

Six bucks doesn't seem like a whole lot to me either.  Why, you could keep a third world child alive for months.

Title: Should I pay money to dl anime?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 02, 2005, 07:34:24 PM

Or keep 3 first world children dead forever!