The controversy on Crunchyroll and TV Tokyo suing youtube anime uploaders

Considering how Crunchyroll started O_O, this news was surprising and ironic to say the least:

Crunchyroll and TV Tokyo have issued a lawsuit against 13 YouTube uploaders for allegedly illegal distribution of anime episodes, according to a copyright infringement complaint filed on May 11 and served between July and September. Crunchyroll and TV Tokyo are seeking reparation for "great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money" because of the defendants' allegedly unauthorized copying, uploading, and distributing via YouTube of multiple Naruto, Naruto Shippūden, and Bleach episodes.

Based on their YouTube subscriber information, the defendants reside in the United States, Japan, Canada, Denmark, and Hungary. Crunchyroll maintains its main offices in California (as does YouTube), so the suit was filed as a U.S. copyright violation in the Northern District Court of California. For the purposes of the lawsuit, TV Tokyo is giving Crunchyroll legal permission to act on its behalf in order to "permanently remove the illegal uploads of infringing parties from file-sharing services and to obtain legal relief against infringers."

Crunchyroll also issued a statement in which they seem to back down, given that they don't support or endorse legal actions against anime fans and viewers. For them, "they have identified a few specific accounts on YouTube which were responsible for over 200 million unauthorized streams of our licensed content. These accounts were owned by repeat uploaders who continued to illegally distribute licensed shows despite receiving multiple DMCA takedown notices. In compliance with YouTube's TOS, filing a formal legal complaint was a necessary step in order to keep these illegal streams off of YouTube."

However, is Youtube the place to watch streamed anime episodes anymore?

Genki 2011

Genki is over and after a con you're supposed to write a con-review, but I suck at those, so I'll just say what I want to about what I want to 8D

Even with the stuff I'll get to later, I think this is one of the cons I've enjoyed the most, I've talked to a lot of new people, made new friendships and gotten closer to people I've talked to before. And the drama was at a minimum (at least what I know of).
(Sasha, Aybike, Emi, Bara, Barbara, Hayes, Kristine, Yoshu, Oni, Samie, Tatianna, Anja, Lina, Emi, Nadia, Mustachebuddy, Bunbun, Hopy, Rose, Lea,  still more, but these did most // Everybody loves their name on someone else's blog 8D)

This was also me and my baby's first danish con together as a couple, and it was great having her at my side all the way through, everybody be so jell-o ~ 8D

Saturday we had signed up for the cosplay show, with both of ours first cosplay skit, the nerves, the nerves!!
The whole experience up untill standing on stage, wasn't all that pleasant, not because I was freakishly nervous, the conditions was just horribad. But I'm not gonna whine.




The stage it self, was much bigger than what we'd expected, so I think that kinda messed up our act slightly, that and the lighting and bass, but can't do nothing about that now, so whatevs!
All in all, it was a good learning experience, and I'm happy that a lot of people enjoyed our small act.

If you've seen the video, you'll know we won "Crowds favorite", and I'm still surprised about that, but it's always pleasant to win, yes? 8D
The rest of the con, we just chilled with everybody and enjoyed the company very much.


Also, here's just some pictures of how I did the print on Ivan Fiore's T-shirt

 

Signing off by saying that my Sheryl and Klan wig arrived monday, and they're both gorgeous!

So here's the seller if you're interested ; 1982bigdreamer

Honey and Momiji - Bloody mary