User blog comment:Haki73/One Piece Dubbed?/@comment-910220-20100903083020/@comment-94.168.119.106-20100904071910

4Kids doesn't do anime anymore. They actually did earn money from One Piece, however they didn't exactly make a profit from dubbing overall and went back to doing their own shows only.

As much as I hate 4Kids, they did *some* small favors for One Piece, though they should have done it better. Basically they kept taking the same formulas from their dubbing of Pokemon and applied it to new shows, except it got more and more expensive as time went by. Pokemon was a simple series requiring little effort to edit and aire, however One Piece had things that didn't confine to the TV standards.

Even the TV version of FUNimations version had edits for the same reason. However since they aired it at a later time (4Kids aired it during the kiddie slot basically), the strictness wasn't there.