Odex Survey II
UPDATE 2: I have reached the desired sample size. Thank you everyone for your help! I will publish the results here soon. Maybe tomorrow.
UPDATE: The survey has been reopened! Please go do it now if you haven’t already! I also added some new questions, but if you have already done the survey then it’s okay.
After helping out some Sec 3 students with their school project, I have decided to conduct my own little survey to satisfy my personal curiosity. So, if you are a Singaporean anime fan, then please take this survey! And please help to spread it around to all your anime buddies!
Do the survey or Yuki gets it…again!
And in case you haven’t heard… Odex has roped in four Japanese companies, held a press conference that resulted in the first CNA article on the subject, and launched their new VOD service with a grand total of two titles up for download.
Anyway, please do the survey, okay? I need a titanic sample size.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:28 pm
No, they are not raws. They will be subbed, by Odex of course.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:58 pm
i oso want the sollated results DM, thank you!
and we’re collating the last survey, it will prolly be up by next week.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:33 pm
300 responses so far!
I’m aimming for a thousand! Please, please help to spread the survey around.
I will post the results when it hits 1000 or by Monday night, whichever comes first.
And yes, I did pay a good 20 bucks for the premium account in order to remove the limit of 100 responses. On hindsight, I could’ve written my own survey script with PHP, but oh well. I hope it was a worthy investment. So get all your friends to do the survey!!!
August 31st, 2007 at 9:48 pm
I just did the survey (with honest answers). :)
August 31st, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Did any of u people saw the translated tittle of Seto No Hanayome?
LOL. Makes u wonder why the japanese companies r helping odex.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Did the survey too, though I have to pause at some of the question to see how I really feel and think
August 31st, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Did it.
Eager to see the results of the whole survey.
Thanks for putting this up.
September 1st, 2007 at 12:44 am
nothing but odex related questions… lol
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September 1st, 2007 at 1:55 am
Done the survey…
Answer all with honest:)
I’m a foreign student studying in Singapore, the internet in Singapore is so good, the Free wireless also. I think many ppl download thing from free wireless like me…so how can they track us???
September 1st, 2007 at 5:45 am
Odex bringing in the big guns (Jap and BayTSP reps), but hardly will the the exclusive licensee can be confounded since out of the 13 letter, 10 were authorised to AVPAS to act on their behalf, so will Odex openly admit that AVPAS and Odex is but 1 entities, so much for cloaking. Can the rep prove they’ve given exclusive license to odex on all their titles? definitely not. SS/xedo can go rot in hell.
September 1st, 2007 at 7:50 am
I thought a good additional question would have been: Would you stop downloading if a warning letter has been sent instead. I believe the answer from most of us would be a yes.
But ODEX seems grossly misinformed that downloading would not stop even if a warning letter was sent. (even the Japanese studios did admit that generally in other countries a warning letter is sent first)
’とても悲しいですね！’
September 1st, 2007 at 11:24 am
Odex only sent a few letters, and expected it to travel throughout the entire community after they told some bloggers to hush about it..
And therefore it equals to “everybody still downloaded after we sent letters!”
Sounds alot like Singtel to me.
September 1st, 2007 at 11:51 am
And for the last time, ANYONE here who posts in Hardware forums or something please tell everyone there this.
ODEX’S CASE HASN’T BEEN STRENGHTHENED! THEY STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THEIR SUB LICENSEE STATUS! All the letters from the bloody Nips and even if they bring their whole company down won’t make a iota of difference in court. Maybe they’re trying to pressure the courts and the SG govt to change the law in High Court but guess what, this is going to be hard to achieve.
First, the letters from the Japs don’t overwrite the Copyright Act as it is written. Compensation and legal action is the EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OF COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND EXCLUSIVE LICENSEE ONLY!!. So long as ODEX remains a plantiff thus making them entitled to compensation THE CASE WON”T STAND! The Japanese can allow Odex to act on their behalf, they however cannot allow Odex to benefit in any way from it. Since Odex is naming themselves as the plantiff, they basically screwed any chance of the appeal being ruled in their favour. Someone tell those Japanese their local licensee is making them look bad in court and in the public.
So long as Odex remains front and centre of the case, PacNet will not loose and the SG govt has no reason to side Odex in this case. The law really isn’t on their side and it was written to side them in the first place. If Odex wants to sue, they will have to either get all exclusive licence or relinquish all their titles so they’re no longer a sub licensee.
Guess we won’t be seeing that anytime soon~
September 1st, 2007 at 12:49 pm
@jayf: Well, yes and no. My sentiments towards this are mixed.
First, this is blatantly, obviously, more a PR stunt than a true threat. If you were Odex, and you had an arsenal of such powerful weapons, wouldn’t you want to use it at the last resort, during the case itself, rather than bring it out prematurely so that the enemy (i.e. PacNet) had time to sit back and think of retaliative measures? The objective is clearly psychological: to bring fear and to add more weight to its words in the media. While the judge is supposed to be impartial, he is human after all, one can’t say for sure he’d remain utterly unaffected by this media hoohah.
Second, don’t assume that PacNet’s lawyers have been idle. In terms of technical expertise, PacNet’s technical people have more sources than a single Mark Ishikawa. Also, legally, you’re right: the presence of the Japanese rights holders doesn’t change the fact that Odex is not the sole licensee.
So far, I’m agreeing with jayf. But then, their (the Japanese reps’) presence does bode something far more sinister, one which I’m sure has occurred to everyone.
Third, from tjhan’s interview with Peter Go (in Riuva), it appears that Odex directors aren’t the money grubbers we thought they were. In other words, they’re not out to seek compensation for money lost, but are on a “cleansing” crusade. [ Of course, the crusade is probably the means to another end. ]
I think people should take note of this final point.