There's also the fact that even if you do credit someone, you're still guilty of copyright infringement if you don't have the license to use it.
This discussion has ranged far afield from Nick Simmons, but I just want to point out that the whole "fansubbers are guilty of copyright infringement" argument has been brought up many many times in the decades of nerds arguing about the legality of copying shit they don't won. And the correct response is (a) so what, and (b) who cares.
I mean, no offense, but if not for fansubbers there wouldn't be an anime fandom. If not for fans doing what they liked with the video they like, we wouldn't have anime music videos or fan parodies or parody subtitles or most of the ouvre of Corn Pone Flicks, and most of what makes the fandom interesting would not exist.
If the only Japanese cartoons I was allowed to watch were the Japanese cartoons that various corporations had seen fit to release in North America, I wouldn't be an anime fan, because the mountains of absolute garbage released by these selfsame corporations would convince me that there wasn't anything worthwhile in the medium whatsoever.
I have done my time in the trenches protecting the copyrights of these corporations, and have never gotten so much as a 'thank you' from these guys, who instead send C&D letters about fansubs we didn't do, of things they didn't own.
Those interested in lengthy, incredibly boring and completely unproductive debates between different sets of non-lawyers are directed to visit Just About Every Anime Fan Internet Forum Ever, circa 2001. I could absolutely care less about the "legality" of fansubs, and would prefer fruitless debate take place somewhere far far away from me.
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This discussion has ranged far afield from Nick Simmons, but I just want to point out that the whole "fansubbers are guilty of copyright infringement" argument has been brought up many many times in the decades of nerds arguing about the legality of copying shit they don't won. And the correct response is (a) so what, and (b) who cares.
I mean, no offense, but if not for fansubbers there wouldn't be an anime fandom. If not for fans doing what they liked with the video they like, we wouldn't have anime music videos or fan parodies or parody subtitles or most of the ouvre of Corn Pone Flicks, and most of what makes the fandom interesting would not exist.
If the only Japanese cartoons I was allowed to watch were the Japanese cartoons that various corporations had seen fit to release in North America, I wouldn't be an anime fan, because the mountains of absolute garbage released by these selfsame corporations would convince me that there wasn't anything worthwhile in the medium whatsoever.
I have done my time in the trenches protecting the copyrights of these corporations, and have never gotten so much as a 'thank you' from these guys, who instead send C&D letters about fansubs we didn't do, of things they didn't own.
Those interested in lengthy, incredibly boring and completely unproductive debates between different sets of non-lawyers are directed to visit Just About Every Anime Fan Internet Forum Ever, circa 2001. I could absolutely care less about the "legality" of fansubs, and would prefer fruitless debate take place somewhere far far away from me.