I’m getting tired of this. I’m an anime fan; and I also try to support those who make works I enjoy. Therefore, I purchase import DVDs of the anime I really like.
Unfortunately, this is the 2nd time where I’ve been shipped bootleg products. How do I know? Well, the DVDs have video quality which are far poorer than the rips I downloaded. FAR poorer. In fact, it appears as if these are Telecine/TS-Rips [dunno how anyone could pull that off when DVD-Rips should be available].
I say this as the person conducting the rip has to adjust multiple times the camera/telecine-machine to make all the video visible. The subtitles also contain the text “dvd_animation@yahoo.com”. Even fansub groups don’t even go so low as to stick their own promo info in the subs in the middle of the show.
I’m pissed off because the money I spent will not go to the authors. It will go to the person who made the bootlegs. Googling the above address, it appears as if these discs are manufactured in Hong Kong. The other time I got ripped off (and I do consider this being ripped off), was when I purchased a copy of CASSHERN (a live action Japanese movie). What I got today in the mail was the Love Hina TV series.
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2 responses to “Bootleg DVDs…”
oh man, I bought Casshern off ebay. And I didn’t get ripped off. It was such a GREAT movie. I assume you got a real copy now though?
lol… 3 purchased copies later… from different sources…
And nope. Bootlegs, the lot of them; from two different makers. I don’t mind – the copies are of Casshern and all work. I just wish that the money would have gone to the people that made it, and not some illegitimate manufacturer in China.