if pirated media (movies, series, songs, you name it.......) shops can open during broad day light for months, you think they going to take action?

Simple. Speedy and the other shop like it are just retail shops, they only sell what is provided by through the distribution companies (like Speedy and Eastern and ect), which is obtain from the various local 'legitimate' publishing\production company. As long as the products are 'declared' original by the Government, then they can sell, it's just a grey area.

Anyway, as long as the products (no matter what methods) go through KDNK or even FINAS - get an 'authorize to sell\distribution\import form', filled it up, provide them with some documents, do some screening of the media (sometimes), pay up and voila, original stickers... 'Ori' here means certified by the Government for selling and distribution, it does not mean 'licensed'.

According to local laws, a foreign distribution\publisher needs a local partner (representative - sole or exclusive) to distribute and to publish their stuff - This is how Fox, Warner, Disney and ect do their stuff. A part from a few small licenses, there are no local representatives for anime distribution in a whole.

Real licensed 'Ori' product (stickers or no stickers) will have enough details and information on their prints to legitimate themselves from the not so real 'Ori'. It's quite easy if you know where to look.

oic. I Get It.

I Think It's A Good Business When Everyone Sell Bootleg And You Sell Real Licensed Ori.

fix'd
there is no original anime selling in Mareshia

This post has been edited by chizzu: Aug 3 2010, 02:51 PM

Correct.

That statement is correct also aside from a few exceptions, and I'm too lazy to say it...

I was amaze how the do the bootleg dvd packaging with "ori" stamp and holowgram sticker on seitokai yakuidomo with just end less then two weeks ago.

thx.no wonder the anime i bought 5 years ago got fansub lol.and i knew its actually not ori.
if u wanna support the industry,buy the anime goodies instead

Theres this one time, I bought a Haruhi Suzumiya DVD with metal casing somemore

then I was thinking like this thing got metal casing sure ori one

then when I watched it the quality is even worse than streaming the anime in youtube, even the subtitles is not accurate for example Nagato Yuki got changed into a chinese name


and that, is the last time I bought anime from dvd stores

I don't know how these got into the country I live in, but its the last time I ever buy from that store... Anyway, I got the LF version of 'He is my master' by trick and it looked like shit when I was watching it. The quality amounts to a Youtube video. (Not even HD ones). The subs don't even fit in the screen sometimes, and it just cuts them off. They appear for a very short time, or maybe even a nano second, or sometimes don't. I'm trying to rebuy a legit version, so for safety information, does this dvd look bootleg or legit?

Nevermind, the version I was looking at seems pretty legit, but probably not the right region.

Its also funny that all the pirated soundtrack cd's were all made in 1995. I suppose their computers have a broken clock or something.

This post has been edited by Lizzaroro: Sep 15 2011, 08:17 PM

LF =

A true legit release would have come with alot of official info on the back-cover, like the anime studio (who holds the copyright), the licensing company (who licensed the product), the distribution company(who distribute), the editing company (who edit the video and audio, create the menus, put on subs and ect).

If any of the above is not present, then not legal. ~ simple.

@thesecond
there is Taiwan legit version right?
are there english subtitle in it?

Taiwan and legit do not come together in the same sentence, my friend. Hate to break it, but that's reality for ya.

Yes, there is. Thing changes after 2004\2005, when the officials from the Japanese side turn towards the previously bootlegging companies and actually made them into their official representatives - because they recognised the taiwanese's ability to come out with low cost and high quality bootlegs (packaging wise ).

The taiwan made bootlegs you see now in the market are either left-overs (from early 2000) or burned DVD-R through online deals (bad quality, they might go bad after multiple plays).

There are currently several legal and official licensing and distribution company in Taiwan like Mighty Media, Muse Inc...

Here's a list of their official website (in chinese). Each of the company have their own catalogue of anime and merchandise, which means that a certain anime would be solely under a certain company (in taiwan), example: Naruto is under Might Media. So if you see others, then those are bootlegs.

And sadly, as official licensed release, most of their products only have chinese subs, english subs is a rare thing. - that's the truth about legit version.

Prowaremedia - one of the taiwan based company who are releasing their own anime BDs (only FMA: Conqueror of Shamballa comes with english subs). ~ corrections.
http://www.prowaremedia.com.tw/

Mighty Media - they are also starting to release their own BDs such as Summer Wars (which included english subs)
http://www.mightymedia.com.tw/

Muse Inc. - A distribution company and a licensing agency, who also deasl with character merchandising and OEM products (Original Equipment Manufacturer) ~ They are listed inside the Animenewsnetwork's database.
http://www.e-muse.com.tw/


Top Insight - famous for their release of the 100% uncut version of Garo DVD set. The one that was aired locally is their dubs but it was gunting and potong... Gundam UC and 00 are licensed to them as well.
http://www.my-cartoon.com.tw/

Then there's PIMGroup which seemed to be currently unactive, for quite a long time now.
http://www.pimgroup.com.tw/

And yeah, most of the Ghibli stuff (most, not all - all licensed seperately) are release under Deltamac of Taiwan (based in Taiwan but also active in Hongkong, while in the same time they are also a joint venture partner of Walt Disney\Sony Ent\20th Century Fox\BBC in China under the company name - Excel Media.)

Deltamac HK
www.deltamac.com.hk

Deltamac TW
http://www.deltamac.com.tw/

Excel Media
http://www.excelmedia.net/

But again, I repeat as official licensed release, most of their products only have chinese subs, english subs is a rare thing except for a more all regional and international release. - that's the truth about legit version.

PS: The lastest dvd (2-disc) release of One Piece Strong World by Bees Factory Entertainment which is slated for late December is said to come with english subs.

This post has been edited by thesecond: Dec 13 2010, 05:20 PM

I am currently studying in Australia . Im nt sure whether i should ask this or nt . I bought my anime DVD from Madman Entertainment . Australia company that distribute and sub anime . Is it original ? I know they said Australia 100% do not allow pirated stuff so I reli donno

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This post has been edited by nhb555: May 4 2011, 10:34 PM

I bought 2 k-on original dvd , and yeah they dont look like "original", the subtitle and the graphic quality are bad ;S
kinda dissapointed spent my money getting the "original" dvd

I think they are pretty legit, been around for over 10 years or so.

1 more questions The company that is listed by @thesecond . Taiwan Company sell real original anime ? because i prefer watching anime with chinese sub haha Thanks for the info !

I'm pretty sure they were legit, tho you need to personally check each one of em.
For eg, you can check Prowamedia licensed anime at ANN - Prowamedia Licensed Anime

That explain why animes are so cheap here...
9 RM a DVD an I though it was legit.

How dare you doubt me...? ~ Just joking...

First of all, those company don't 'sell', they produce\manufacture\distribute. If you want to get them, try finding them at either Yesasia, books.com.tw or jsdvd. They are much more affordable than the North American release, but beware the pricy shipping fees though. And yeah, sometimes their packaging especially the repackage price down edition are really 'cheap' looking...

Well, there's one thing about legit distributors that is completely opposite of illegal ones - legit distributors often have a much more limited catalogue, they only distribute what they can afford to get (japanese licenses are never cheap), and sometimes some of them are official sole distribution which means that the other company won't be releasing products from the same japanese production company if it's belong to that sole distributor.

So, you won't see the same title release by two or more company at once, unless the original license had expired (most likely after more than 5 years - maybe, according to their contract of agreement.) and transfered to another new licensee. - This is not the same with the local release, where you can see two company compete with each other by releasing product of the same title.

And yeah, you can put all the faith in Madman since they are pretty much the biggest anime\japanese series distribution company in Australia (probably the only one, if I remember correctly).