No more backlogged letters from Odex
According to a forum post by Stephen Sing, as of today (3rd September) no more backlogged letters will be sent out. Odex will not take legal action against you with old evidence. If you stop downloading from today, you are guaranteed, by the man himself, not to get Odex’ed ever.
Original thread on Odex forums:
If an individual stop downloading now, today, on the 3rd September, 2007, he will have no possibility of ever receiving any letters from the copyright holders, (aka the Odex letter) as we will not take anything that he has downloaded before this date against him. We will not send any letters to him.
If an individual continues to download and shows up on our investigation we will send him a letter to ask him to explain why it is so. If he cannot give us a reasonable explanation of why that happened, we will reserve the rights to take legal action against him, with all the evidences that we have collected before and after the 3rd of September (there would necessarily be evidence after the 3rd in order for this to happen).
Apparently an official statement will be released soon, but I think a forum post from xysing is as good as any official statement. I guess they have finally recovered their fees. Well that’s that for BitTorrenting anime I guess. I shall make do with Nico Nico Video.
On another note, I just finished rewatching all five seasons of Futurama. Good stuff.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:42 am
LOL at the people who say they will buy Odex stuff if they improve. Even after they’ve extorted over a million bucks from us in a mere three months.
Stick with R1s and R2s people. Don’t support those who try to ruin the scene.
September 4th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Odex should have taken this kind of sensible action from the start, instead of intimidating downloaders with empty legal threats.
In this way, mr. sing could’ve won more friends than foes.
At least, the anime community has finally able to whack some common sense and morality in mr. sing’s thick skull.
Last but not least, thank you anime community of singapore, for joining hand in hand to fight odex all the way. Without your voices in the local media, odex would still be sending ppl unjustified fine letters.
Anime Banzai !!
September 4th, 2007 at 11:54 am
I know why they have shitty subtitling with them Shakugan no Shana DVDs. If they translated Onee-chan to “Sister”, rather than “Master”, the BFC would think that the anime has incest material in it and classify it as R21. R21 products don’t go on retail shelves.
Genius.
September 4th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I think that it will be more advisable to watch and learn. Odex mght be up to something…
September 4th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
The way i see it, it’s only an unofficial statement by mr. sing. So as long as it’s not on black and white, signed by lawyers or attorneys, it’s not legally binding. Besides, he said odex won’t sue, which means AVPAS or japanese anime firms CAN sue our asses dry.
Don’t be fooled. It’s not the end of journey, guys.
If you value quality anime, please support n buy R1/R2 dvds if you can. Screw odex !!
September 4th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/209169.asp
@Xlayer: A lame attempt in lying to cover up for their poor translation indeed. Once again we see another one of Odex’s lie exposed. Thank God the BFC bothered to clarified this else more people will be duped to believe that Odex’s product is so good.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
niconico is the best thing that’s happened to my life. I don’t care if the anime on it gets deleted a day later. I just want to watch it fast, watch it once, and I’m very happy. If I like it so much to watch it again, I’ll get an official version of it. Only if I am damn stuck then I will “act smart”.
Plus it has a lot of genius MADs on it. YARANAIKA
September 4th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Aw… LianYL beat me to it. Futurama is top notch animation. Can’t wait for the next season sometime next year.
September 4th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
what is all this “no more letters from odex”. WHAT A thing to say!
HOW ABOUT RETURNING THE MONEY TO THOSE WHOM WAS FINED BEFORE PUBLISHING SOMETHING LIKE THIS, to show that things can be taken back.
WHAT IS DONE CANT BE UNDONE!
September 5th, 2007 at 12:01 am
i am not shouting though, but i want o highlight with the capitals.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:14 am
I say,the kitten image was very cute. XD I saw that image twice today :3
September 5th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Odex has acquired enough money from those settlement payments that they don’t need those money badly now.
September 6th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
The game stop at XEDO level but what about AVAPS or the Jap or some other companies that will takes this as an example and ‘extort’ from the rest..
Bang a few bucks and retreat for a while..
Just like guerrilla warfare..
September 6th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
When is the pacnet appeal case again??? I think that case determine the future of our anime community.
September 7th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Today is the big day. Odex vs Pacnet…