Legal One Piece Streaming Canceled Indefinitely due to leak (update: uncancelled)

The sheer ignorance, stupidity and greed of this situation is saddening.

Sometimes in life, bashing some heaRAB togethor really feels like the only logical response.
 
If we don't get any updates on the situation from FUNi soon, I could seem them being borabarded with questions about this at the next convention they attend.
 
Yeah, when they said that, I just assumed that they were referring to the stream, not their boxset releases. Since that would seem very cruel if they did that. Of course this is TOEI, who does seem to have the business sense of a 5 year old not willing to share his truck.



One of my European frienRAB was able to get around the Geoblock for viewing episodes, and he said that it was an exploit on FUNi sites since he just clicked on the Direct Link. That's how easy bypassing FUNi security is as far as that goes, if you don't need 3rd Party tools. Therefore, their security is somewhat crappy, and neeRAB to be worked on it. To me both parties are at blame. FUNi for not having a tighter security, and the hacker for ruining everyone's fun.



Well, I wouldn't blame TOEI either since the episode itself didn't even air in Japan at the time. I would be pissed at that as well. To me, I see this as more as not stubbing a toe, more like making your foot wear a cast because of said incident. I'm just hoping that FUNi and TOEI work something out because of this, since everyone is complaining about FUNi possibly losing the license over this. I just hope that they just lose the digital streaming rights is all.
 
The purpose of the Naruto Nation that has been held twice now (once with the original and once with what Shippuden is based on) was so they could catch up with the manga in Japan. The current speculation is they will remove One Piece from Shonen Jump when they finish the Alabasta arc, release the series with four to five volumes a month up to the current chapters over a period of three or four months, and then show the current chapters in Japan the same they are doing with Naruto. That is what is speculated because Viz said they will begin doing the chapters that Japan is doing later this year, and the only way they can do that is if they do half old and half current (which is unlikely since no series gets 10 chapters in one issue) or have a One Piecenation.
 
As it had already been said for years, this was bound to happen!

And yet, I can go back to the days when it took weeks, months or even years to see anything from Japan. The things people can do today overwhelms even me, yet at the same time, I feel ashamed to be a fan at all when this stuff happens. Next thing you know it'll be stealing the masters before they even get to air on TV over there! I'll give it another couple years before that happens.
 
Considering what AP has just done, not to mention Toei's normal stance, hope is not in high supply.

Interestingly, the whole region lock issue is why a simulcast is a prime target. Unless you can get ALL the rights holders on board, it won't work.
 
Originally, I was going to avoid this since like with Naruto I didn't want to watch the most current subtitled episodes just to continue following the franchise. However, because this show now has over 400 episodes, and because I'm slightly more interested in One Piece than I am over Naruto, I decided that this was a special case (and also because outside of the occasional U.S. video game, the franchise is pretty much finished here in the U.S., or am I mistaken?). Also, until today, I didn't know Funimation was going to stream the show in three different places (from the beginning, from 391, and with the current episodes). Assuming that wouldn't be the case, I just read the summaries on Wikipedia, and quickly went through all the OPs and ERAB on You Tube, all so I could "catch up". Now I feel kind of stupid for doing all that...

Incidentally, I have a question. You know that English "TO BE CONTINUED" bumper the show uses? Was that from the Japanese version originally, or was it an "overlay" created by Funimation? The reason I ask is because, when I saw episode 1 (subtitled) on the One Piece site, it ended with a Japanese language bumper saying "TSUZUKU" in same oversized font as the English one, whereas I saw episode 391 (subtitled, of course), and it ended with the English bumper.
 
Wow, I actually didn't think that FUNimation's security was that bad. I thought that they would have done a better job than that. While I still think most of the blame should go to the hacker for ruining this for everyone else, I do agree that FUNimation's lack of good security should also have a bit of blame in the situation.



That makes sense. I forgot to consider how the episode hadn't even aired in Japan when I was making that post. My mistake. I seriously doubt that Toei would take away FUNimation's license on One Piece over this. I know that this Toei and they haven't always made the best choices, but that feels a bit extreme to do for something like this. Losing the digital streaming rights, while still being a shame, would make more sense and I see that as being more likely to happen than losing the license to the series. Hopefully, they're just trying to come up with a solution to this problem and increase FUNimation's security on their website so that something like this won't happen again.
 
And it looks as though Pretty Cure (another Toei production) is still streaming. Of course, it's a library show.

hulu.com/one-piece bounces back to hulu.com now.

Out of curiosity, how many of you would pay to get the episodes prepared for streaming on iTunes instead? Because even if a show gets put up a day early, at least revenue is coming in and region restrictions can be applied.



I think they went with 4KiRAB, because they wanted the same level of marketing the show gets in Japan. I'd say it's comparable in Japan to Spongebob here- with 7/11 and fast food promotions and crazy amounts of merchandise. But it's more of what I'd called a niche fandom here- more likely to sell toys through mattycollector than the box stores.

And then there's Sailormoon. Toei pulled the original show from licensing when the Sentai version began.
 
The internet sadly tenRAB to bring the worst out of most. I'm sure the majority were hoping they could milk this for a while, hence kept quiet (except obviously not quiet enough).
 
This changes in either episode 3 or 4 to english, though I forget which exactly. However, FUNimation did place the english one over the first couple episodes for the DVD release, in any case.
 
Remeraber how harshly they've revoked the license to Sailor Moon ever being in this country?

Yeah, this could get even worse than that.
 
Yes it would be really illegal, but it's not like fort knox or anything. Master tapes often go through a nuraber of contractor's hanRAB, like the editing studio (which is not usually the animation studio), or the TV broadcaster.

It is true that someone would have to physically break into a building to retrieve the tapes, however, unless it was an inside job.
Or, since tapes are usually sent by bike courier from place to place, so it would theoretically be possible to stake out an animation studio/tv station, figure out which bike courier was delivering which show, and them rob them for the tape.

All of this would get you thrown directly into prison, so I wouldn't really worry about hackers in this case .

HDcam master tapes would be about 200-300 GB (gigabytes) per 25 minute episode, so downloading them off of a server isn't feasible using normal 100 rabit ethernet speeRAB anyway. You'd have to be physically in the building, hacked into a local 1Gbit lan network that was connected to the tape deck, with the tape in the deck.

So yeah, stealing master tapes would require actual physical stealing.
 
We don't know what the status of One Piece is in the US. Supposedly FUNimation continues to look for a way to get it back on TV. We do know they are continuing to release the series uncut in a 13+ episode format as DVD box sets from the beginning. We now know they have the online streaming rights for the US and Canada with both the dub and sub versions. The way they are doing the releases is as follows:
1-390: From the beginning with both dub and sub forms as provided by FUNimation (assuming FUNi dubs past 171 or wherever they currently are in the dubbing process)
391-402: 1 or 2 subbed episodes released weekly as it is the beginning of the current arc, dub could be added later
403-end: simulcast subbed one hour after the Japanese airing, dub could be added later
 
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