Comments on: NUS warns against illegal Anime Downloads

By: the rat

the rat — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:42:57 +0000

hehe lol that suks for singapore but its awsme for us. in new zealand not many people really know about anime and you would be suprised that only a few anime series actually make it here and our video piracy protection is crap lol

By: AprÃ¨s Singapour, ODEX frappe en France | Bikasuishin

AprÃ¨s Singapour, ODEX frappe en France | Bikasuishin — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:14:24 +0000

[...] dernier, vous vous souvenez certainement de cette affaire qui a fait grand bruit chez nos amis de Singapour et au-delÃ . La sociÃ©tÃ© ODEX, principal distributeur d’animation japonaise Ã Singapour, [...]

By: ally

ally — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:15:45 +0000

Heh, to be REAL honest.. I would say that ODEX taking measures to stop online pirating of anime, really pissed me off at first. To me, its not because I don’t want to respect intellectual property or that I don’t want to pay, generally i think its because Singapore is such a closed off market and by stopping online downloading, it limits anime fans to what the market can only merely offer right now.

First off, i remember buying ODEX’s Inuyasha VCDs from Poh Kim, and sad to say, the quality really really sucked.. The picture quality was dull and some of the subbings were wrong.. If I’m paying $20-30 dollars for something of lower grad, i would rather pay more for good quality..

Secondly, I don’t know if its my misguided opinion, but i think ODEX is really cheapskate! I mean, all the animes brought in are years old and those that I really want to watch, i can’t watch.. how crap is that man! If they want to stop downloading of anime, first, they must provide an alternative avenue by which we can pay, yet keep up.. if not it is really killing off the premature market of animation in Singapore..

and to think, we’re supposedly heading towards ‘creativity’ while being boxed-off and under exposed..

maybe i’m just biased =))

By: Booties

Booties — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:13:55 +0000

I will only support other companies like INNOFORM who brought in KARAS and G.H.O.S.T IN A SHELL & not ODEX. What I can’t understand is their(ODEX’S) lack of acknowledging Singaporean Fan Base of anime. I’m willing to pay for DVD and good subs. But they obviously take too long and I can’t imagine why after 1 year of waiting (for bleach), They are still not releasing anything after episode 51 and it’s in mandarin and chinese subs. Do they need almost a year to load it in a DVD(or VCD) and sub? Anime like G.H.O.S.T in a shell (stand alone complex) was in DVD and it’s fantasic and cost me about S$80. I shelled the money out right after reading that it was DVD and had english subs. What’s the point of buying VCD and watch the lousier quality when the artist put in so much effort to get it in DVD grade? I will pay willingly, if they set up a wesite and release single episodes say 5-10 days after it’s aired from Japan and I pay with credit card. MY CONCLUSION : Make It a Legal Download. Or make it in VCD/DVD fast. Like 13 episode lag time only. Currently ( For Bleach ) Japan is airing episode 136 soon and Stores in Singapore are at episode 51 and in Chinese. And if you think Singaporeans ( 1 of the fast walking people in the world) are going to wait anything from months to years for anything like dvd movies or anime, you GOTTA be kidding. Finally, I feel that Odex is not trying to make sales better they’re just making sales from now on worse. Heard from my Hardcore anime friends that they’ll just pool money and buy from amazon.com. Looks Like I’ll Join In too. And from now onwards, will not buy anything from Odex.

By: Bigdog

Bigdog — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:35:59 +0000

These ppl are smart they let us enjoy naruto for free for many months. So now they can profit from illegal downloads. Conspiracy.
Smart bastards. This is where they get their real profit thats what all big companies are doing now. MOney MOney $$$$$$

By: Fans

Fans — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:45:32 +0000

It’s big money here. $5000 per illegal downloader, times 1000 that will be 5 mill already.

They go for bittorent cos technically that is the easiest to catch. Just list IP address of all downloader at one time, filter to select only those in Singapore, go to internet provider to give out name, and you are done for.

By: Nanashi996

Nanashi996 — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:06:49 +0000

â€œTedFox Says:
August 13th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Itâ€™s illegal to download anime from any websites that sub or share. But at the moment, Odex is going after those that are downloading fansubs via bitttorent.â€

I am not so good in IT. What is bit torrent ? It is the same as downloading from reality-lapse.com, animeground.com, anime-eden.com etc. Is Odex going after those that download from these sites ? Please enlighten. Thanks.