The Cool Anime Pictures Thread

[WickedDeus]

Anyone know a good graphical guide to IRC?

[BlackHawk]

Vulcan, do you have a source for this "Kazaa crackdown"?

[MrVulcan]

oops, thought I had space in my box *fixing that*
And yes, I do have real sources, I will try to find them and post them here for you guys asap.
Also, PSU can get in trouble for 'permitting' discussion about how to get copyrighted material, even if they dont know it is going on.

[MrVulcan]

ok, here is 1 site w/some limited info on it (will find beter ones later (with numbers, info on the congressional act that now allows this program to be used, details on the program, etc)

*here is a quote from the article*
"The RIAA says it's beginning to gather evidence in order to bring lawsuits to the doors of file swappers. Lawsuits could begin as soon as mid-August.


To gather evidence, the RIAA says it's using software to scan public directories available to any user of a P2P network. The software then downloads information on users who make files available to the P2P networks, recording data such as what file is being offered and when it was made available. The only way to ensure you're not a target of the RIAA is to disable your software's ability to trade files, or get rid of the software altogether. "

*the rest of the article can be found here:
http://www.techtv.com/news/news/stor...463091,00.html

Previousally they could not legally scan people through kaza directly, they could only do it indirectly (invasion of privicy stuff) thus they can now take and run the program and get a list of all copyrighted music on your system and take you to cort.

[BlackHawk]

thanks for the heads-up, Vulcan

[NeoTassadar]

They can't get many. Check the participants counter. Right NOW, I'm getting 6.4 million people, twenty downloading from me, me downloading from three. If a quarter of those people share like me, they would need huge computers dedicated to nothing but this, and probably get less than they spend on suing. They'll make examples of maybe five to twenty people, and get on with their business.

[NightWalker XI]

I now use www.animesuki.com it has all 1 - 40 Gundam Seed episodes and MANY mroe anime, I'm in heaven, my PC is gopnna be on all night, should get at least 20 episodes by the morning..eh eh eh <<< evil laugh

[Onizuka]

im getting pissed off. I buy manga, then read it in like 15 min. the stuff aint cheap either and scans suck.

must get more manga!!!

[WickedDeus]

Try some nice animated manga.

[MrVulcan]

Originally posted by NeoTassadar
They can't get many. Check the participants counter. Right NOW, I'm getting 6.4 million people, twenty downloading from me, me downloading from three. If a quarter of those people share like me, they would need huge computers dedicated to nothing but this, and probably get less than they spend on suing. They'll make examples of maybe five to twenty people, and get on with their business.

10,000 in the 1st 2 weeks actually *according to them*, and continue at comperable amounts every few weeks from then on. *my guess is avg 5,000 per week after the 1st 2 weeks for some time to come, they are loseing a lot of money from this and are going to do something aobut it*

so, lets say there are 7mill people who use the program, and assume it will be *for now* kept withen the US, so thats prob 4.5 mill people.
So withen the 1st month, that would only be .5% true (1 out of every 500 people using it), however after the news gets around to showing that 20,000 people have been sued by the industry there will be a major drop in people on line (my guess over a couple months after the 1st month there will be a 40-60% drop in people in the US using the system) thus if you are on after that is almost 1% each month will be sued. *people will get scared from hearing the things like "20,000 kaza users sued this month, and more on their way" People will stop using it, and the less people using it, the better the chance it is to get sued.

[MrVulcan]

oh ya, I could defentally go for more magna, never can have enough (esp when they take 10 sec to read as you pointed out)

Think I will start to pick up Love Hina, read some, liked it, so im prob going to start getting that series next (jsut got all of chobits over the last month *well 1-6, waiting for 7-8 to come out*, very good series)

[NeoTassadar]

Hmmm...we will see.
You have more information on this, but I'm more than willing to take my chances. I'm pretty confident in my safety, as 20k/(I'll estimate a total, instead of at one time)~14 million are very good odds.

[Derfud]

Sometimes, it's beyond me how people can watch anime. Much less buy it. I dont understand why people think it's so good. I have seen alot of anime, and all I can say is that a prefer real actors, in real movies. Only the animatrix is good, because it provides some back story to the Matrix.

[WickedDeus]

Name some anime that you have seen. In some cases I like anime better then live action because I'm not watching actors if you know what I mean. Only time live action would beat anime in every single case would be pr0n.

[MrVulcan]

to each their own
That is the buity of it all, we can all find things in this world that we can enjoy.

I like anime for the story. That is what it is all about, I couldnt care less what the pictures look like, its the story im going for. I can imagine better, and more realistic scenes than any movie could ever do.

That is why I also very much enjoy reading, not just little books, but real novels, I read things like LOTR on a daily basis. To me, I couldnt care less about the effects, its al about the story.

Anime is when they take good stories and animate them, thats it. You still have to use your imagination (something no one has anymore ) but they dont do it for the effects, they do it for the story.

*I couldnt stand the animatrix, to me it was a complete waste of time, there was nothing there but some 10 sec blips of unrelated things. *That 1 whole history of it all was KA, but the rest stunk IMO, there was no real debth, it was just 5 sec splash after 5 sec splash, no debth, not cool*