Originally posted by Fire Star:
From :
http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=275113
A very simple view, and here is the reason why. They sue people not
because of privacy infringement, authenticity or royalty
infringement, but because Odex wants to earn money, quick money.
They want people to buy their products, the complete set of series
of Inuyasha, and whatever else they licensed.
[b]What is Odex? It is a Singaporean company that licenses
and releases anime for local and South East Asian consumption,
formed in 1998. They are definitely trying to earn big bucks here
by a marketing network. Of course they can't earn big bucks if
everyone downloads Inuyasha, that is why this suing case. They even
talk the Singapore court and ISP into charging $3000-$5000 per
individual. This is hilarious.
Why is it outrageous and unfair? It merely sends out 17 warning letters to citizens,
but wants to sue thousands. It wants to silently ambush you.
If you are reading this, here is what you all can do now.
Don't buy from Odex company from now on. Let the court
case continue, but don't buy anything licensed by Odex. You can buy
from other honest, reasonable license companies.
Let their sales rate be low, even empty. Let them go bankrupt in
their sales market, even though they had sued you. Let them learn a lesson not to be a silent money
sucker by forcing the ISP to change their terms of services and
infringe upon your privacy, giving away your identity! We
need to be smart now. And let us see the difference betweenus and
the other countries, like Japan.
Quoted
"It has been noted that Article
38 of Japan's copyright law allows parties to 'distribute by wire a
work already broadcast for non-profit purposes'. - Andy Ho, Straits
Times 16th August 2007"
"(Performance, etc. not for profit-making)
Article 38
(2) It shall be permissible to diffuse by wire a work already
broadcast, for non-profit-making purposes and without charging any
fees to audience or spectators.
(3) It shall be permissible to communicate publicly, by means of a
receiving apparatus, a work already broadcast or diffused by wire,
for non-profit-making purposes and without charging any fees to
audience or spectators. The same shall apply to such public
communication made by means of a receiving apparatus of a kind
commonly used in private homes"
The above two Sections of Article 38 places reasonable and fair
doubt on ODEX's affidavit and claim to act on TV Tokyo's behalf,
until the latter has expressively stated that it has authorised
ODEX in a publicly accessible or notarised document, served notice
in either Japanese or Singaporean press or any publicly available
channel of communication, or accessible through a document request
filed in a Japanese court (may or may not be under the Government
Organizations Information Disclosure Law. I do not know if TV Tokyo
is a state-owned enterprise of Japan); that ODEX may take legal
action for TV Tokyo in Singapore for any perceived breach of
copyright."
http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=274429
Though I myself had never downloaded licensed Odex anime, I
strongly think we should do something; by not supporting Odex or
buy any of their products. They literally thinks that by suing you,
every citizens will feel scared and thus buy from their miserable
'cheap', 'discounted' VCDs and DVDs just for a complete set of
Inuyasha. [/b]
I'm not planning to buy any animes from ODEX ... I now watch my
animes at crunchyroll and I can record them using realplayer ...
However , the resolution is not as clear as those dl-ed ...
