The Great Anime Fansubbing Scare of '07 (Or not)

Originally Posted by CK01

People are really just so used to not having to pay than any amount more than 1 cent is too much.

Pretty much.

Mind you, I was getting out of anime by around 2000, but I remember a lot of serious goofiness on the part of fansubbers in the late nineties. I even recall a few times that people were angry that Distributor X had licensed a show that Fansub Group Y was in the midst of hacking together from copies of the official series manga. That's saying nothing about the posturing and threat displays between rival groups that chose the same series to fansub.

I'm not going to say anything about dumbing down, or subtitles vs. dubs. Just because these companies don't do what the hard-core enthusiasts want them to do, doesn't make them stupid. Simply stated, the less investment a viewer has to make in a series (beyond money, of course), the more penetration it's going to achieve with the general public.