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General Forum / Re: Donating money to fansub groups....good or bad?

« on: January 12, 2009, 05:32:32 am »

it's cool, it didn't. but i read through the options, read through the topic, came back to think about what my opinion is and realised there wasn't one. just kinda pointing it out not getting upset no worries. who would get upset anyway it's just a random poll the real meat is in the topic always has been

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General Forum / Re: Donating money to fansub groups....good or bad?

« on: January 12, 2009, 03:41:53 am »

personally i don't disagree with donating however i do think regular monthly/etc donations aren't quite right.
by the way the more i look at your poll the more biased i realise it is: the only options supporting it say something questionable about either the person or the group. imagine one where the person wanted to help their favourite anime but couldn't/didn't know how/was too lazy/there was no localisation (as we know many groups like L-E only sub for) etc. Imagine, as a seperate option even, that the group gave donation money to charity or put towards the anime's creators/etc e.g. by buying more of the DVDs or merchandise and whatnot. the DVDs could, perhaps, be donated to some worthy cause, or perhaps brought to some western country such as America/England and sold for almost exactly the same price with smart conversion...
which brings me conveniently onto my next point, as much as i would love to see a financial summary, or perhaps even proper accounts, for the group's donations and expenditures with said donations... do you realise how unrealistic this is? don't forget that a fansub group is practically a meta-group, an internet group with rare few people living together let alone meeting up and sharing tools/'group equipment' like say if you were a school club.
lastly...oh i don't even remember what else i had to say i got distracted, good day