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 7th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Do not buy anything from Odex. If you do, they’ll get richer. With more money in their kitty, the next time they whack you, you will surely lau sai green shit and you will surely run out of underpants.
They already show you what evilness they’re capable of. Do you want your friends, relatives, and small kids in Singapore to be odexed again and again before you wake up to their greed and evilness?
September 8th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Yeh, and dont forget, they also use fansubs and tweak the subtitles and release boxsets on us. A very good evidence that they use fansubs, is the anime title “Mar Heaven” You will know what i meant. :)
September 8th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Well…In the past before odex came out, they even sell pirated stuffs…What more can we expect from them…So how’s the pac net case?
September 10th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Maybe you are right, for now they might be able to survive. But question is for how long?? The lack of support and popularity from the anime community is a good reason for Odex been not able to survive in this market for long based on just anime itself.
Reasons are: They can’t be depending on Art Central to have their anime broadcast which only show 1 to 2 anime 3 times a week (correct me if I’m wrong, I think it Wednesday to Friday), Odex also need support from VCD / DVD reseller to help promote their products which sad for them to say, majority of the anime lovers might not wish to get it from them anymore due to poor management by Odex.
Another reason which is a timebomb to Odex. Their VOD might not be able to help them survive for long as not many ppl who are mostly students, Teenager or young children (as mention in the newspaper during the crackdown) has online payment processor like paypal or other type even if they wish to implement later (not to mention that they have the money to fund for one). Even if there are alot of ppl who have payment processor, The question is how supportive are the anime community now to Odex?!?
Low support = low sale. So does that mean we are still at fault for their low sale of anime again?!? Rubbish!!
Odex need to change their sales tactic and work on how consumer want for the things they paid for. Not just because due to high amount of downloaders in Singapore that causes the huge drop of sale and they just go round tracing ppl and issue them with legal letter. Odex might have win the war against the download, but they have lost the support of anime community in Singapore. So in the end who is the last to survive? Singaporean do not need anime to survive as some of them have mention. But in business term dealing with anime products, Odex need the anime lover’s support to survive.
Think abt it SS. Work with the community or else strap the timebomb on your company.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
I don’t think there’s any way to improve sales. as many know that in singapore , anime is mostly for kids , unlike japan that even adult still watching anime. this is one of the reason that why no one get sued in US for downloading anime and either do any fanssub group (mostly just get warning letter) .
September 11th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
anyone knows what’s the final outcome for the odex appeal against pacnet? juz cos they say they’re not gonna send anymore letters doesn’t mean we should be distracted from the final verdict.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:33 am
I will not support Odex any more. I will cease buying their items in my lifetime ever since they decleared war. Too bad that they lost a lifetime value from me. I will continue to spread Anti-Odex by word-of-mouth to my fellow friends.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Information by psionix
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2…ry_163660.html
Looks like it’s gonna drag on for some time…
But… Pacnet’s law firm, ATMD, is the TOP IP law firm in singapore. Hmm.. ATMD vs R&T… it’s gonna be a good fight