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myOtaku.com: Adam

Sunday, August 13, 2006

A War Is Brewing
Advance Wars DS has taken over my life. I just love strategy games. My only complaint is that it's HARD and individual battles can last hours. Plus my eyes are usually red and pained from all the squinting.

It seems my last post about so many sites charging for fansubs stirred a lot of passion. It's not really our place to do anything though, sadly. A few reasons:

(1) I'd rather focus our energies on improving our network.

(2) These sites are like cockroaches, they're really easy to make and for every one that gets taken down, 20 more will appear.

(3) The big anime companies all know that this is going on. Since they're the ones being hurt by it, it's really on them to act.

Sadly, most webmasters of these sites, most quite young, are going to learn a hard lesson in business. Here's why:

(1) Since these sites are so easy to make, more and more will keep hitting the Internet and each will try to undercut the rest to gain traffic. Since distributing fansubs has almost no cost, the price they'll be able to charge will fall close to zero.

(2) The webmasters that work the hardest to get traffic and customers will also become the fattest chickens in the farm. When companies do start to crack down on this, they'll be hit first and hardest. It's almost perverse, the more successful you are in the near-term the less successful you'll be in the long-term.

(3) These sites can only really make money from these fansub sales, since no advertiser will touch them.

In the book I'm writing, I go over types of competition and the importance of integrity in business. Readers will be able to make these kind of observations at a glance :).
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