Comments on: Anime, YouTube, and Me

By: Kristin

Kristin — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:56:59 +0000

And others who want to save Anime on Youtube follow the link to the group “Anime Army”. Your help can help save anime.

http://www.youtube.com/group/forteconversation

By: Kristin

Kristin — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:52:58 +0000

Midna go to this link and automatically you will be joined.

http://www.youtube.com/group/forteconversation

We have found quite alot of ways to get out of this situation, but we need everyones help so we the anime fan community can show youtube and companys that we are out there and want them to stop and this to be reasoned with.

By: martin bacon

martin bacon — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:08:00 +0000

I want all anime save. please!!!!!

By: Midna

Midna — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:52:23 +0000

How do i join the “Anime Army” group.
I WANT TO SAVE WOLF’S RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Midna

Midna — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:48:35 +0000

I am from Japan. I moved to England when i was 3 years old so i don’t remember much about Japan.
I do have 1 reminder. Anime!
Youtube was the only place i could watch my fave shows. AND NOW THEY’RE GONE!!!!!!!!!
I really miss watching Wolf’s Rain, YU GI OH! and Tokyo Mew Mew.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:48:06 +0000

Dont lose hope! We have formed a group on Youtube to save anime on Youtube called “Anime Army” plz join and help us for the sake of anime. I am “daykm” on Youtube.

The reason why you couldnt argue with them was because they outnumbered you, plz e-mail for more info.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:54:59 +0000

well whatever you do don’t watch love hina, if you watch that i’m sure you won’t ever try to watch anime again. it’s the mostidiotic thing onthe earth.

but anyways please flag love hianv ids on youtube.

By: Axel

Axel — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:11:27 +0000

I don't watch ANIME.
I want to know why people like it.. or what's cool with it.
I might want to try watching it someday,
what can you recommend?

By: GoxRX

GoxRX — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:23:05 +0000

This article caught my attention, mainly because of the mention of fandubs (or what I call fakedubs in my case). It’s a hobby that my friends and I have of recording ourselves as we dub over the characters in an episode (all improv., making up our own dialogue). It turns out quite hilarious.

Here’s a youtube link to a sample we did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afa4iqtiS3c

Anyways, I liked the points you brought up about the application of fair use, (despite the DMCA). I can say though, that I’m against people using youtube to host full episodes. I think a public upload site such as youtube should only be used for uploading works of some new or creative value, while the uploaders of unaltered episodes should do one of the following: 1. Not upload the files at all (as the companies would demand), or 2. At least host the episodes on their own server so that they are the one’s held responsible rather than youtube.

Unfortunately, too many of these uploaders are too young, immature, or ignorant to understand these ethics, therefore giving fair use and sites like youtube a bad name.

(PS: The full episodes I refer to are those released for sale in America. Distribution of unlicensed or unreleased fansubs is acceptable by my rule of thumb and even by many of the companies that turn a blind eye to fansubs.)

By: omo

omo — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:26:39 +0000

Fair use is a vague defense. When it comes to internet services based in the US like YouTube, the DMCA just makes it easier to take crap down than to argue for it one way or another. Because in the end, even OP/ED and PVs are copyright material, and the owner can do whatever they want with it. Same with AMVs–they are derivative works (not even mentioning the music), and it is still a copyright violation. The special thing about YouTube is its popularity and it is centralized, making DMCA takedowns easy for companies. We see it happening because it is easy for companies to do it.

What’s also notable is that a lot of Japanese clips do end up on YouTube (as there are no Japanese version or knockoff of it AFAIK), and viewed amongst the Japanese. In that sense the usual fansub logic just doesn’t work. While I’ll agree that it may not be smart for companies to request them to be taken down, they can if they want to.