Anime = illegal

Hm, yah, Singapore is placing a very serious control over illegal downloading of stuff. First it was music, now it's anime.

I'm not a collector of anime, so it doesn't affect me =D, but regarding the state of the anime industry worldwide, i doubt any clamping down on illegal anime is going to do anything to help the Anime DVD industry.

I've tried looking at the prices they have for just 5/10 episodes, and it's like $30++. I'm talking about legal English releases, not cheap Chinese translations. Importing original Jap releases aren't much cheaper either, about $60++ i heard.

Not that I have any issues over the prices... but some animes have 100+ over episodes. Are fans supposed to fork out $300+ dollars?

Oh wait, most ppl actually spend more than that on a monthly basis as part of them misc budget. =X

But still, the prices are okay if the DVDs are high quality, but they're not. English translations are often poor. And I would rather much like to have Japanese as the language medium instead of English. BGMs sound the best when they're untouched by English Voice Actors spliced into the soundtrack.

Perhaps a special type of Anime DVDs, English Subtitles on Japanese, would emerge over time. If it does, and is cheap enough, I might consider purchasing whole series i guess.

But until then, Singapore is completely OUT of the anime scene. We'll still be around YouTube though. =D Streaming video files based off a foreign server, I HOPE, isn't illegal. If it is, that has some serious implications..... that viewing media, not just possessing it, without possessing the permission to do so, is considered illegal. =\

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