Re: Fansub


to tenchi@usagi.jrd.dec.com
from "Tomar" <tomar@helser14.res.iastate.edu>
subject Re: Fansub
date Sun, 1 Sep 1996 01:49:26 +0000
Tenchi ML,

Hentaikun@aol.com said:
> In a message dated 96-08-31 03:52:28 EDT, you write:
> 
> << I don't know of one fansubbing group that has ever gotten permission
>  to do the subtitling.  If they did, the company might as well 
>  contract them out to the work anywas. >>
> 
> Really, companies will "under the table" pay fansubs to spark an interest in
> the series.....Then the companies swoop in and unload merchandise.
> 
> I thought you would have heard of this.....oops.....I may have blown their
> cover,
> aaaahhhh!!!!! Somebody get me to a witness relocation center before I get 
> shot by a hitman!       :D                          

If this were true then they would be just as bad as dishonest 
bootlegers.  So far, it's just a myth and I have found no
evidence to support it.

Not only that, isn't the point of fansubbing is to spread 
Anime....not make money off of the venture?

Tomar
aka tomar@helser14.res.iastate.edu

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