Forum:Views on On-line viewing

Peoples' thoughts on legal stuff?

http://forum.onemanga.com/showthread.php?p=4450533#post4450533

My opinion;

If your reading it free with the intention to purchase things when you can afford them is to a extent fine. If you've got no intention of EVER buying anything related to the series your viewing for free, then you've got no leg to stand on in the debate. You can't ever justify being a fan because fans support what they love. I'm not saying go out and fork £100 you don't have, I'm saying the odd little thing you can afford is enough to say your trying to support it.

Incidently, I own 5 or 6 volumes of the manga, 4 P.O.P. figures, a card set (somewhere), a few posters, some minor small figurines, a music CD, Gradn Battle and Grad adventure, 3 plush dolls. I did put some money back into One Piece at least, in fact its because I was on-line reading the manga I bought this stuff. I only stopped buying the manga because it took too long, plus it became complicated due to various reasons to even get hold of just one issue of the manga.

I stopped viewing the anime AGES ago. But I do admit, it was because I viewed it on-line for free, that I DID purchase these items in the end. First you give me a reason to love, then I return it I suppose. Its actually quite a complex problem. I can understand the copyrights protecting their work, they view it as "you want to read it you must buy it". A counter argument is that if your seeing it for free, you ever going to buy it in the first place. However, I see people who turn aroudn and say, because fansubs exist they have no reason to buy the series at all. Those kind of people do make me think, that honestly, the companies are right.

If you don't fork out something, you can't expect something back forever. So what if you can't afford it, then you just don't read it. Actually, this is WHY I stopped heavy anime viewing/manga reading in about 2006, I was reading so much I couldn't afford it, so I focused on supporting one series only. I admit it paid off, I feel myself much better about being a One Piece fan then a general anime fan nowadays. 94.168.119.106 19:43, September 4, 2010 (UTC)