But online distribution is what AnimePlanet was talking about in:
AnimePlanet @Yuricon Good point, and makes complete sense; with the advent of pay per episode and such I think that's helped a lot too. I'm sure a lot of us remember paying hundreds of dollars for a 26 ep series and that was totally horrendous - nowadays much more attainable
of us remember paying hundreds of dollars for a 26 ep series and that was totally horrendous - nowadays much more attainable
At RightStuf.com, a 13-episode season of the programme that the tip jar ending song came from is $37.49 (the five 50-minute episode OVA is $29.99) for a four DVD thinpack box set. No individual volumes, no collectors boxset, and to get a trinket (mobile phone charm), you had to pre-order, so no longer any trinket.
If the programme were available at a pay per episode site (though as far as I understand, its not), that's normally $2/episode, so $26/season (but of course, you provide the storage).
Via Netflix, on a two-at-once $10/month subscription, you'd get the four disks within a month, and if you had the time to watch fairly close to the day they arrive, anywhere from four to eight other DVD's as well.
If it were available on a streaming site like Crunchyroll (but its not), $7/month would get as many of the shows they carry as you care to watch, including catching up on their back catalogue.
Note that Crunchyroll abandoned selling downloads on a pay per episode basis, so evidently they feel that the ad-stream with early release to premium subscribers model is a better return on their investment of time and money.
If a leech site like AnimesFree.com launched people into the Crunchyroll page for the episode when the person is from an area that Crunchyroll is licensed to stream, and played the bootleg when the person is from a different area - while the original content creator would be in a position to follow that up, Crunchyroll would not have a legal complaint to make, and under the Teaspoon Model would point the volunteers to a different free anime streaming site. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
