**Updated ** One Piece to Be Broadcasted Simultaneously Starting from the Episode 403

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Yep, it's pretty dumb to get butthurt over it.

That's what happens when you have shitty security on a website. Good job Funimation.

Yeah, its definitely a bummer. Figured this would happen too, as I doubt Shueisha and Toei don't want to risk the episode being hacked again. I'm pretty doubtful we'll get this service again. But here's hoping....

sad news :/

News post updated.

I use them for archiving purposes. If they C & D them then I lose any reason for having downloaded them in the first place and buying DVDR's. I watch any other One Piece fansubbing group. Also Vegapunk is still 10 X slower than KF.

Out of curiosity do you all mean Kaizoku-Fansubs, the group that has done only done 3 releases since November? Funimation released that many in a day.

I already watched Funanimation subs though One Piece movie 8, aka the Alabasta Arc
It was freaking awful... It simply was unbearable to read -_-
To be more specific, the fruit name translation totally fugly...

Perhaps I am too used to K-F subs, but again, I hate Funimation. It still worth saying, 4Kids, Go the hell

Bah, lay off my One Piece. It's one off those shows I really look forward every week and if trough this subbers are going to stop subbing this I'll be seriously pissed. I live in Europe by the way for the people who are going to say I should watch it streamed...

I had my jaw dropped in joy when I heard about this news!! It is so awesome that Funimation is going through great lengths to support the industry as to legally distribute episodes of One Piece online for free. This is probably the big response anime licensing companies are having towards fansubbing and piracy, by showing streaming episodes of all the popular shows online. In fact chances are that Viz may do the same thing for its Bleach website because there is a section that says "more to come, check again soon."

And as for the "whole screw Funi for removing fansubs on Youtube, they don't give a rat's ass about what the fans want,"..... if the people at Funimation didn't care about legally distributing streaming episodes of their licensed shows, recovering Geneon titles, having actors like Greg Ayres host panels at conventions based on the fate of the industry (on their own free will) and releasing shows in DVD box sets, then they wouldn't have anything to DO with anime! There wouldn't be a Funimation and all the actors, and other people would go out to having more well-paid jobs.

More and more anime fans believe that by fansubbing and showing literal translations hours after premiere in Japan and downloading episodes is honoring yourself as an anime fan, which I admire the dedication, but that method isn't helping purchase legal merchandise to give money to the licensors and anime studios.

And the streaming anime episodes is legal if Funimation was the one that licensed it. That method by the way, is to see if fans are going to play the "legal distribution" game that Funimation is asking them to play with as much fairness and handicap as possible so they can encourage fans to potentially buy the DVDs.

As for location issues that I can understand because of Funimation mostly promoting in region 1, but that doesn't mean no companies in Singapore, Australia or whatever can do the same thing. The only catch is that fans being the heart of the anime industry have to play their part and buy the merchandises in order to get Japan's attention financially and say "hey guys, looks like this region is buying more One Piece DVDs and are probably demanding more. Maybe we should supply more."

It's the whole "supply and demand" thing. It's the circle of life of economics and legal distribution.

Wow, why is there soooo much hate going around? I honestly cannot believe you guys. This is a GOOD thing that Funimation has decided to do. The fact that we are able to access the episode one hour after the original broadcast, with official and accurate subs is a fortune in itself. I just watched the first 5-7 minutes of episode 391 on the Funimation website and I'll admit that while the quality is not as good as it would have been if you downloaded the episode via torrent, it's still very good quality (much better than most of the streaming sites out there).

No clue why people are pissed off. And really? Do you think groups out there will stop subbing just because Funimation started this? Even though Funimation is doing the same thing for Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, groups are still releasing their own versions. There will always be people out there who will fight the system.

Of course, the next step now is for Funi to allow us to download the episode or somehow bring the episode onto cable television. Though if Funi ever did have a download feature, I'm sure they would have some kind of monthly fee for it.

I'm going to be pissed if they make KF stop subbing.

And yet you can still find high quality FMA: Brotherhood releases online for download, so why are people getting their panties up in a bunch?

Anime still takes far too long to come out, at least here. R1 licenses take at least a year to filter through, if they ever do.

I've rarely blindly bought anime. I typically only buy stuff I've seen, so yeah, I want to preview it before buying. But no, the trailers thrown on DVDs to advertise other series aren't enough, especially with how tragic some are (See Fruits Basket trailer for example... made it seem like a COMPLETELY different kind of show with no indication otherwise).

And I do favour HD, yes. We live in the HD era. I have a HD monitor and TV. Low quality video looks bad stretched several times. Watching something in poor video quality impacts my enjoyment of it making me less likely to want to buy it.

Good question! What they consider it is kinda not the point -- it is illegal no matter if they care or not -- but they have a problem with it because they can't control what's uploaded on other sites. If a company wants to, say, pull episodes after a certain time or include advertisements, they can do it on their own site and anything they put up themselves on other sites. But if a random fansubber puts something up on youtube, the companies can do none of that.

At least that's the way I understand it.

I've never been able to figure out why they sometimes have free Internet episodes, but they consider it illegal when other sites host their episodes.

No. People would rather DL fansubs than stream fansubs.

Woohoo

That's not the issue at hand. I want to be able to watch anime where/how I want. eg. on my TV, and without a net connection. I also archive media until I have it on DVD (if it ever gets released here) -- I'm not going to save stream flv's either, why when I can dl DTV rips that are much better quality?

Also most streaming players don't cleanly fullscreen, they keep a player bar or similar active. I don't know about Funi's itself since I can't view their streams where I live. And even 'good' streams still look terrible when watched fullscreen on a real display (ie. 1920x1080). Media players where I can watch properly downloaded files resize and filter far more cleanly.

Really, Funi should just work with some fansub groups and release DL options in the MKV with ASS subs the fansub community knows and loves. They can put an ad in the eyecatch for all I care, splash FUNIMATION after the OP where sponsor screens usually are etc. Whatever, it's better than streams.