issue of fansubbing?
If I would be a senior executive of a Japanese or English anime company, I would choose different means to deal with the issue of fansubbing. I would carefully analyze the positive and negative effects that fansubbing has on my company. I would think of the best ways to keep the positive ones and reduce the negative ones. Maybe I would even try to closely work together with the fansub community, like allow them to sub my show to a certain extend, but make certain aspects of my show exclusively available and fully translated only on my DVDs, which would create market demand. Of course DVDs already feature bonus material, but I would take means for certain small and maybe big aspects of the original show to become bonus. An example would be only allowing fansubs with a rather low sound and video quality, not allowing the opening and ending to be subbed, or force them to add my advertisement to their fansubs and my links to their homepage. I would allow and maybe even encourage fansubs, b
