...yikes
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Replying to @segfaultvicta
It was part of a screed against anime piracy, by a VA, and I'm not going to begrudge her that, but "if the anime isn't licensed for your region, you are specifically not supposed to have it and getting around that is colonialism" is still literally a thing she said
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
ya I'm not going to complain, ever, about someone involved in the industry saying "hey fuckasses, don't pirate shit" but like if you have a region-locked DVD presumably you purchased it legitimately? importing isn't piracy? also region-licensing sucks?
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Replying to @segfaultvicta @BootlegGirl
The thing is, not many people are pirating dubs. So it's not her work they're stealing, it's the fact that piracy [and imports] are functionally *the competition*. And, sure, she's got a right to feel the way she does, but she shouldn't be pretending it's more than it is.
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Frankly i think the fact that she's got a financial motive makes the disingenuous colonialism argument *worse*, not better. Because it's obviously not her actual concern.
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[I do think there's a complicated discussion to be had around region-locking in particular, the fact that it's intended to enable lower prices in markets where people have less purchasing power without harming western-market sales is often ignored]
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though all in all that's probably a problem that would be better solved with tariffs.
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The big picture reason for it is, as you say, maximizing profit through price discrimination The medium sized picture is that the way the studio sees it the value of the property is bundled into different sets of regional distribution rights
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Random832 and
They think of the US rights to a certain show as something they own that they can sell and if you make those rights worthless you've taken money out of their pocket Even if you'd argue you still paid for the DVD, it's the distributor who directly takes your money, not them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Random832 and
It's not entirely a theoretical issue, like back in the 2000s there were attempts to launch official US dubs of various properties that failed because all of the potential fanbase already had the fansub and said that it was better
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Whether it actually was a net financial loss for the studio if you could actually get a ground level view of everything is unknowable, but to them it *looked* like a loss and made them that much less likely to do an official US release in the future
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Random832 and
Which to their parent company makes them look less popular and less profitable, etc
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I mean, frankly, what that arguably means is that distributors needed to get better at being first to market, because that's what the market wants... and that's what we have now more or less with simulcasts. the invisible hand has spoken
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