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sophisticated. The two mediums share similar
advantages, but despite the obvious differences in
different and aimed at different audiences—and
the product is the most important issue at hand.
The next proverbial mark of Cain is the
rise of streaming media. Netflix charges $8
a month for subscriptions, and has over 60
million subscribers. That’s almost half a billion
dollars every month. Netflix’s most expensive
properties are the originals, such as House of
Cards, Daredevil, Orange is the New Black,
which were all produced for around $100 million
each. Compared to that, the cost of hosting
content is entirely negligible. Netflix only has
to pay for a show once, and no matter how
many people watch it, the studio that created it
won't see any more of that subscription cash.
Even worse, the Internet has bred torrenting.
No one needs to be told why it’s unethical to
consume unpaid-for content, yet millions of
people feel entitled to watch what they want
for free. Anime faces the similar case of fan
dubbing. It’s expensive to make good dubs,
because translators must be hired in addition to
voice actors, and the latter can’t be poached from
Disney’s talent pool. So, western fans have taken
it upon themselves to write English subtitles for
the anime, and distribute the translated versions
without paying licensing fees to the studios.
Combine all of this with the smaller number
of buyers on the market due to recession in both
North America and Japan, and you've got a perfect
storm. Disney knew this, and cut costs accordingly.
Hand animators worldwide now face an extremely
competitive environment that offers a tiny fraction
: of the positions that were available even a decade
: ago. Those who succeed, end up in teams of 30
tech and cash, the products they create are entirely :
or less doing work that usually requires over 100
: animators, all while their superiors hold them to
: impossible production schedules and standards
: of quality. Popular cartoons like Family Guy and
: American Dad only survive because their simplistic
: animation style is super-cheap to produce.
Hayao Miyazaki, renowned Studio Ghibli
: animator, retired in 2014, shortly after appearing
: in The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, a
: documentary about the studio's history. In the
: film, he was quoted as saying: “The future is
: clear. It’s going to fall apart. I can feel it.” Since
: Studio Ghibli routinely rakes in hundreds of
: millions of dollars with films like Ponyo and
: Spirited Away, the fact that the general managers
: are looking into “housecleaning” speaks to the
: costs of production. Under such constraints,
: it’s no wonder that Manglobe, the high-
: profile anime studio that created Gangsta and
: Samurai Champloo, went bankrupt this year.
Clearly, the captains of the industry feel that
: the writing is on the wall. Japanese television
: moguls agree; the former primetime television
: slot for anime has now been reserved for reality
: TV programs. It’s not much different in the West
: either. Funimation, an American anime licensing
: company, has been particularly aggressive in its
: anti-piracy policy. Since 2005, they have been
: serving cease and desist letters to numerous
: websites that offered fan subs of their licensed
: content. In 20u, Funimation filed a
: lawsuit against 1,337 individuals
: for allegedly downloading
: an episode of
——~
wake
: popular anime series One Piece using the
: torrent program BitTorrent. The judge ruled
: that the defendants were not “acting in
: concert,’ and so the case was dismissed.
Many were quick to claim that Funimation
: hates anime fans, and that they only care about
: the money. However, Funimation did not sue
: for money; their objective was to have the illegal
: copies of their content destroyed. Obviously it is
: in Funimation’s interest to protect their Japanese
F shareholders as well as their own licences, but that
: is a matter of necessity, not greed. If fewer people
: torrented content in the first place, then such
: search-and-destroy policies would be unnecessary.
We're all students with very little disposable
: income, but if you like animation, try to share
: the wealth. Buy DVDs to support your favorite
: studios. If you're into anime but prefer streaming,
: there are new services like Crunchyroll offering
: anime content for monthly subscriptions of
: $6.95. If you feel tempted to torrent a show,
: just remember that it is the dogged animators
: who suffer most when the studio collapses—
: the very people who created, frame by frame,
: the very content you're watching for free.
It’s a grim state of affairs, but it doesn’t have
: to be the end of days. If everybody does their part,
: we won't have to watch while hand animation
: go the way of the
: blacksmith.
advantages, but despite the obvious differences in
different and aimed at different audiences—and
the product is the most important issue at hand.
The next proverbial mark of Cain is the
rise of streaming media. Netflix charges $8
a month for subscriptions, and has over 60
million subscribers. That’s almost half a billion
dollars every month. Netflix’s most expensive
properties are the originals, such as House of
Cards, Daredevil, Orange is the New Black,
which were all produced for around $100 million
each. Compared to that, the cost of hosting
content is entirely negligible. Netflix only has
to pay for a show once, and no matter how
many people watch it, the studio that created it
won't see any more of that subscription cash.
Even worse, the Internet has bred torrenting.
No one needs to be told why it’s unethical to
consume unpaid-for content, yet millions of
people feel entitled to watch what they want
for free. Anime faces the similar case of fan
dubbing. It’s expensive to make good dubs,
because translators must be hired in addition to
voice actors, and the latter can’t be poached from
Disney’s talent pool. So, western fans have taken
it upon themselves to write English subtitles for
the anime, and distribute the translated versions
without paying licensing fees to the studios.
Combine all of this with the smaller number
of buyers on the market due to recession in both
North America and Japan, and you've got a perfect
storm. Disney knew this, and cut costs accordingly.
Hand animators worldwide now face an extremely
competitive environment that offers a tiny fraction
: of the positions that were available even a decade
: ago. Those who succeed, end up in teams of 30
tech and cash, the products they create are entirely :
or less doing work that usually requires over 100
: animators, all while their superiors hold them to
: impossible production schedules and standards
: of quality. Popular cartoons like Family Guy and
: American Dad only survive because their simplistic
: animation style is super-cheap to produce.
Hayao Miyazaki, renowned Studio Ghibli
: animator, retired in 2014, shortly after appearing
: in The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, a
: documentary about the studio's history. In the
: film, he was quoted as saying: “The future is
: clear. It’s going to fall apart. I can feel it.” Since
: Studio Ghibli routinely rakes in hundreds of
: millions of dollars with films like Ponyo and
: Spirited Away, the fact that the general managers
: are looking into “housecleaning” speaks to the
: costs of production. Under such constraints,
: it’s no wonder that Manglobe, the high-
: profile anime studio that created Gangsta and
: Samurai Champloo, went bankrupt this year.
Clearly, the captains of the industry feel that
: the writing is on the wall. Japanese television
: moguls agree; the former primetime television
: slot for anime has now been reserved for reality
: TV programs. It’s not much different in the West
: either. Funimation, an American anime licensing
: company, has been particularly aggressive in its
: anti-piracy policy. Since 2005, they have been
: serving cease and desist letters to numerous
: websites that offered fan subs of their licensed
: content. In 20u, Funimation filed a
: lawsuit against 1,337 individuals
: for allegedly downloading
: an episode of
——~
wake
: popular anime series One Piece using the
: torrent program BitTorrent. The judge ruled
: that the defendants were not “acting in
: concert,’ and so the case was dismissed.
Many were quick to claim that Funimation
: hates anime fans, and that they only care about
: the money. However, Funimation did not sue
: for money; their objective was to have the illegal
: copies of their content destroyed. Obviously it is
: in Funimation’s interest to protect their Japanese
F shareholders as well as their own licences, but that
: is a matter of necessity, not greed. If fewer people
: torrented content in the first place, then such
: search-and-destroy policies would be unnecessary.
We're all students with very little disposable
: income, but if you like animation, try to share
: the wealth. Buy DVDs to support your favorite
: studios. If you're into anime but prefer streaming,
: there are new services like Crunchyroll offering
: anime content for monthly subscriptions of
: $6.95. If you feel tempted to torrent a show,
: just remember that it is the dogged animators
: who suffer most when the studio collapses—
: the very people who created, frame by frame,
: the very content you're watching for free.
It’s a grim state of affairs, but it doesn’t have
: to be the end of days. If everybody does their part,
: we won't have to watch while hand animation
: go the way of the
: blacksmith.
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sophisticated. The two mediums share similar
advantages, but despite the obvious differences in
different and aimed at different audiences—and
the product is the most important issue at hand.
The next proverbial mark of Cain is the
rise of streaming media. Netflix charges $8
a month for subscriptions, and has over 60
million subscribers. That’s almost half a billion
dollars every month. Netflix’s most expensive
properties are the originals, such as House of
Cards, Daredevil, Orange is the New Black,
which were all produced for around $100 million
each. Compared to that, the cost of hosting
content is entirely negligible. Netflix only has
to pay for a show once, and no matter how
many people watch it, the studio that created it
won't see any more of that subscription cash.
Even worse, the Internet has bred torrenting.
No one needs to be told why it’s unethical to
consume unpaid-for content, yet millions of
people feel entitled to watch what they want
for free. Anime faces the similar case of fan
dubbing. It’s expensive to make good dubs,
because translators must be hired in addition to
voice actors, and the latter can’t be poached from
Disney’s talent pool. So, western fans have taken
it upon themselves to write English subtitles for
the anime, and distribute the translated versions
without paying licensing fees to the studios.
Combine all of this with the smaller number
of buyers on the market due to recession in both
North America and Japan, and you've got a perfect
storm. Disney knew this, and cut costs accordingly.
Hand animators worldwide now face an extremely
competitive environment that offers a tiny fraction
: of the positions that were available even a decade
: ago. Those who succeed, end up in teams of 30
tech and cash, the products they create are entirely :
or less doing work that usually requires over 100
: animators, all while their superiors hold them to
: impossible production schedules and standards
: of quality. Popular cartoons like Family Guy and
: American Dad only survive because their simplistic
: animation style is super-cheap to produce.
Hayao Miyazaki, renowned Studio Ghibli
: animator, retired in 2014, shortly after appearing
: in The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, a
: documentary about the studio's history. In the
: film, he was quoted as saying: “The future is
: clear. It’s going to fall apart. I can feel it.” Since
: Studio Ghibli routinely rakes in hundreds of
: millions of dollars with films like Ponyo and
: Spirited Away, the fact that the general managers
: are looking into “housecleaning” speaks to the
: costs of production. Under such constraints,
: it’s no wonder that Manglobe, the high-
: profile anime studio that created Gangsta and
: Samurai Champloo, went bankrupt this year.
Clearly, the captains of the industry feel that
: the writing is on the wall. Japanese television
: moguls agree; the former primetime television
: slot for anime has now been reserved for reality
: TV programs. It’s not much different in the West
: either. Funimation, an American anime licensing
: company, has been particularly aggressive in its
: anti-piracy policy. Since 2005, they have been
: serving cease and desist letters to numerous
: websites that offered fan subs of their licensed
: content. In 20u, Funimation filed a
: lawsuit against 1,337 individuals
: for allegedly downloading
: an episode of
——~
wake
: popular anime series One Piece using the
: torrent program BitTorrent. The judge ruled
: that the defendants were not “acting in
: concert,’ and so the case was dismissed.
Many were quick to claim that Funimation
: hates anime fans, and that they only care about
: the money. However, Funimation did not sue
: for money; their objective was to have the illegal
: copies of their content destroyed. Obviously it is
: in Funimation’s interest to protect their Japanese
F shareholders as well as their own licences, but that
: is a matter of necessity, not greed. If fewer people
: torrented content in the first place, then such
: search-and-destroy policies would be unnecessary.
We're all students with very little disposable
: income, but if you like animation, try to share
: the wealth. Buy DVDs to support your favorite
: studios. If you're into anime but prefer streaming,
: there are new services like Crunchyroll offering
: anime content for monthly subscriptions of
: $6.95. If you feel tempted to torrent a show,
: just remember that it is the dogged animators
: who suffer most when the studio collapses—
: the very people who created, frame by frame,
: the very content you're watching for free.
It’s a grim state of affairs, but it doesn’t have
: to be the end of days. If everybody does their part,
: we won't have to watch while hand animation
: go the way of the
: blacksmith.
advantages, but despite the obvious differences in
different and aimed at different audiences—and
the product is the most important issue at hand.
The next proverbial mark of Cain is the
rise of streaming media. Netflix charges $8
a month for subscriptions, and has over 60
million subscribers. That’s almost half a billion
dollars every month. Netflix’s most expensive
properties are the originals, such as House of
Cards, Daredevil, Orange is the New Black,
which were all produced for around $100 million
each. Compared to that, the cost of hosting
content is entirely negligible. Netflix only has
to pay for a show once, and no matter how
many people watch it, the studio that created it
won't see any more of that subscription cash.
Even worse, the Internet has bred torrenting.
No one needs to be told why it’s unethical to
consume unpaid-for content, yet millions of
people feel entitled to watch what they want
for free. Anime faces the similar case of fan
dubbing. It’s expensive to make good dubs,
because translators must be hired in addition to
voice actors, and the latter can’t be poached from
Disney’s talent pool. So, western fans have taken
it upon themselves to write English subtitles for
the anime, and distribute the translated versions
without paying licensing fees to the studios.
Combine all of this with the smaller number
of buyers on the market due to recession in both
North America and Japan, and you've got a perfect
storm. Disney knew this, and cut costs accordingly.
Hand animators worldwide now face an extremely
competitive environment that offers a tiny fraction
: of the positions that were available even a decade
: ago. Those who succeed, end up in teams of 30
tech and cash, the products they create are entirely :
or less doing work that usually requires over 100
: animators, all while their superiors hold them to
: impossible production schedules and standards
: of quality. Popular cartoons like Family Guy and
: American Dad only survive because their simplistic
: animation style is super-cheap to produce.
Hayao Miyazaki, renowned Studio Ghibli
: animator, retired in 2014, shortly after appearing
: in The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, a
: documentary about the studio's history. In the
: film, he was quoted as saying: “The future is
: clear. It’s going to fall apart. I can feel it.” Since
: Studio Ghibli routinely rakes in hundreds of
: millions of dollars with films like Ponyo and
: Spirited Away, the fact that the general managers
: are looking into “housecleaning” speaks to the
: costs of production. Under such constraints,
: it’s no wonder that Manglobe, the high-
: profile anime studio that created Gangsta and
: Samurai Champloo, went bankrupt this year.
Clearly, the captains of the industry feel that
: the writing is on the wall. Japanese television
: moguls agree; the former primetime television
: slot for anime has now been reserved for reality
: TV programs. It’s not much different in the West
: either. Funimation, an American anime licensing
: company, has been particularly aggressive in its
: anti-piracy policy. Since 2005, they have been
: serving cease and desist letters to numerous
: websites that offered fan subs of their licensed
: content. In 20u, Funimation filed a
: lawsuit against 1,337 individuals
: for allegedly downloading
: an episode of
——~
wake
: popular anime series One Piece using the
: torrent program BitTorrent. The judge ruled
: that the defendants were not “acting in
: concert,’ and so the case was dismissed.
Many were quick to claim that Funimation
: hates anime fans, and that they only care about
: the money. However, Funimation did not sue
: for money; their objective was to have the illegal
: copies of their content destroyed. Obviously it is
: in Funimation’s interest to protect their Japanese
F shareholders as well as their own licences, but that
: is a matter of necessity, not greed. If fewer people
: torrented content in the first place, then such
: search-and-destroy policies would be unnecessary.
We're all students with very little disposable
: income, but if you like animation, try to share
: the wealth. Buy DVDs to support your favorite
: studios. If you're into anime but prefer streaming,
: there are new services like Crunchyroll offering
: anime content for monthly subscriptions of
: $6.95. If you feel tempted to torrent a show,
: just remember that it is the dogged animators
: who suffer most when the studio collapses—
: the very people who created, frame by frame,
: the very content you're watching for free.
It’s a grim state of affairs, but it doesn’t have
: to be the end of days. If everybody does their part,
: we won't have to watch while hand animation
: go the way of the
: blacksmith.
advantages, but despite the obvious differences in
different and aimed at different audiences—and
the product is the most important issue at hand.
The next proverbial mark of Cain is the
rise of streaming media. Netflix charges $8
a month for subscriptions, and has over 60
million subscribers. That’s almost half a billion
dollars every month. Netflix’s most expensive
properties are the originals, such as House of
Cards, Daredevil, Orange is the New Black,
which were all produced for around $100 million
each. Compared to that, the cost of hosting
content is entirely negligible. Netflix only has
to pay for a show once, and no matter how
many people watch it, the studio that created it
won't see any more of that subscription cash.
Even worse, the Internet has bred torrenting.
No one needs to be told why it’s unethical to
consume unpaid-for content, yet millions of
people feel entitled to watch what they want
for free. Anime faces the similar case of fan
dubbing. It’s expensive to make good dubs,
because translators must be hired in addition to
voice actors, and the latter can’t be poached from
Disney’s talent pool. So, western fans have taken
it upon themselves to write English subtitles for
the anime, and distribute the translated versions
without paying licensing fees to the studios.
Combine all of this with the smaller number
of buyers on the market due to recession in both
North America and Japan, and you've got a perfect
storm. Disney knew this, and cut costs accordingly.
Hand animators worldwide now face an extremely
competitive environment that offers a tiny fraction
: of the positions that were available even a decade
: ago. Those who succeed, end up in teams of 30
tech and cash, the products they create are entirely :
or less doing work that usually requires over 100
: animators, all while their superiors hold them to
: impossible production schedules and standards
: of quality. Popular cartoons like Family Guy and
: American Dad only survive because their simplistic
: animation style is super-cheap to produce.
Hayao Miyazaki, renowned Studio Ghibli
: animator, retired in 2014, shortly after appearing
: in The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, a
: documentary about the studio's history. In the
: film, he was quoted as saying: “The future is
: clear. It’s going to fall apart. I can feel it.” Since
: Studio Ghibli routinely rakes in hundreds of
: millions of dollars with films like Ponyo and
: Spirited Away, the fact that the general managers
: are looking into “housecleaning” speaks to the
: costs of production. Under such constraints,
: it’s no wonder that Manglobe, the high-
: profile anime studio that created Gangsta and
: Samurai Champloo, went bankrupt this year.
Clearly, the captains of the industry feel that
: the writing is on the wall. Japanese television
: moguls agree; the former primetime television
: slot for anime has now been reserved for reality
: TV programs. It’s not much different in the West
: either. Funimation, an American anime licensing
: company, has been particularly aggressive in its
: anti-piracy policy. Since 2005, they have been
: serving cease and desist letters to numerous
: websites that offered fan subs of their licensed
: content. In 20u, Funimation filed a
: lawsuit against 1,337 individuals
: for allegedly downloading
: an episode of
——~
wake
: popular anime series One Piece using the
: torrent program BitTorrent. The judge ruled
: that the defendants were not “acting in
: concert,’ and so the case was dismissed.
Many were quick to claim that Funimation
: hates anime fans, and that they only care about
: the money. However, Funimation did not sue
: for money; their objective was to have the illegal
: copies of their content destroyed. Obviously it is
: in Funimation’s interest to protect their Japanese
F shareholders as well as their own licences, but that
: is a matter of necessity, not greed. If fewer people
: torrented content in the first place, then such
: search-and-destroy policies would be unnecessary.
We're all students with very little disposable
: income, but if you like animation, try to share
: the wealth. Buy DVDs to support your favorite
: studios. If you're into anime but prefer streaming,
: there are new services like Crunchyroll offering
: anime content for monthly subscriptions of
: $6.95. If you feel tempted to torrent a show,
: just remember that it is the dogged animators
: who suffer most when the studio collapses—
: the very people who created, frame by frame,
: the very content you're watching for free.
It’s a grim state of affairs, but it doesn’t have
: to be the end of days. If everybody does their part,
: we won't have to watch while hand animation
: go the way of the
: blacksmith.
advantages, but despite the obvious differences in
different and aimed at different audiences—and
the product is the most important issue at hand.
The next proverbial mark of Cain is the
rise of streaming media. Netflix charges $8
a month for subscriptions, and has over 60
million subscribers. That’s almost half a billion
dollars every month. Netflix’s most expensive
properties are the originals, such as House of
Cards, Daredevil, Orange is the New Black,
which were all produced for around $100 million
each. Compared to that, the cost of hosting
content is entirely negligible. Netflix only has
to pay for a show once, and no matter how
many people watch it, the studio that created it
won't see any more of that subscription cash.
Even worse, the Internet has bred torrenting.
No one needs to be told why it’s unethical to
consume unpaid-for content, yet millions of
people feel entitled to watch what they want
for free. Anime faces the similar case of fan
dubbing. It’s expensive to make good dubs,
because translators must be hired in addition to
voice actors, and the latter can’t be poached from
Disney’s talent pool. So, western fans have taken
it upon themselves to write English subtitles for
the anime, and distribute the translated versions
without paying licensing fees to the studios.
Combine all of this with the smaller number
of buyers on the market due to recession in both
North America and Japan, and you've got a perfect
storm. Disney knew this, and cut costs accordingly.
Hand animators worldwide now face an extremely
competitive environment that offers a tiny fraction
: of the positions that were available even a decade
: ago. Those who succeed, end up in teams of 30
tech and cash, the products they create are entirely :
or less doing work that usually requires over 100
: animators, all while their superiors hold them to
: impossible production schedules and standards
: of quality. Popular cartoons like Family Guy and
: American Dad only survive because their simplistic
: animation style is super-cheap to produce.
Hayao Miyazaki, renowned Studio Ghibli
: animator, retired in 2014, shortly after appearing
: in The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, a
: documentary about the studio's history. In the
: film, he was quoted as saying: “The future is
: clear. It’s going to fall apart. I can feel it.” Since
: Studio Ghibli routinely rakes in hundreds of
: millions of dollars with films like Ponyo and
: Spirited Away, the fact that the general managers
: are looking into “housecleaning” speaks to the
: costs of production. Under such constraints,
: it’s no wonder that Manglobe, the high-
: profile anime studio that created Gangsta and
: Samurai Champloo, went bankrupt this year.
Clearly, the captains of the industry feel that
: the writing is on the wall. Japanese television
: moguls agree; the former primetime television
: slot for anime has now been reserved for reality
: TV programs. It’s not much different in the West
: either. Funimation, an American anime licensing
: company, has been particularly aggressive in its
: anti-piracy policy. Since 2005, they have been
: serving cease and desist letters to numerous
: websites that offered fan subs of their licensed
: content. In 20u, Funimation filed a
: lawsuit against 1,337 individuals
: for allegedly downloading
: an episode of
——~
wake
: popular anime series One Piece using the
: torrent program BitTorrent. The judge ruled
: that the defendants were not “acting in
: concert,’ and so the case was dismissed.
Many were quick to claim that Funimation
: hates anime fans, and that they only care about
: the money. However, Funimation did not sue
: for money; their objective was to have the illegal
: copies of their content destroyed. Obviously it is
: in Funimation’s interest to protect their Japanese
F shareholders as well as their own licences, but that
: is a matter of necessity, not greed. If fewer people
: torrented content in the first place, then such
: search-and-destroy policies would be unnecessary.
We're all students with very little disposable
: income, but if you like animation, try to share
: the wealth. Buy DVDs to support your favorite
: studios. If you're into anime but prefer streaming,
: there are new services like Crunchyroll offering
: anime content for monthly subscriptions of
: $6.95. If you feel tempted to torrent a show,
: just remember that it is the dogged animators
: who suffer most when the studio collapses—
: the very people who created, frame by frame,
: the very content you're watching for free.
It’s a grim state of affairs, but it doesn’t have
: to be the end of days. If everybody does their part,
: we won't have to watch while hand animation
: go the way of the
: blacksmith.