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

This.... is absolutely terrible. Normally, you'd be getting a long essay-esque analysis on the ramifications and consequences this has for Funi and the waning US popularity of anime, but this is very hard to put into sentences that don't have curses.

Funi, you're to blame for your security being as sturdy as a few pipecleaners,

Toei, you're to blame for making a mountain out of a molehill.

Fanboy, you're to blame for acting recklessly and without thought. People's jobs and the future of both eastern and western animation hang in the balance of the tempest you've created.

This could result in anywhere on the spectrum from

1. Streaming resuming next week with more security
2.Funi gets the rights pulled by Toei, no more simulcast or Voyages,causing Toei to put the Japanese version on hiatus while a deal is worked out.

A single grain of rice can tip the scales. And this grain may have been one too many.

Thoughts?
Tomato
 
Why the heck is Funi's security so pathetic in the first place?!? They're an official dub company and they've got the internet security of a fansite.
 
ANN article.

Furthermore, it's the Funimation English-subtitled version of the episode. This really has to be an erabarassment for them. I also hope it doesn't hurt their relationship with Fuji TV and Toei.

I understand that there have been leaked TV episodes before, but this is completely different. It was supposed to be a near simulcast of a current Japanese episode of a Japanese TV show airing on Japanese TV...imported directly from Japan. For this reason, this changes all the rules. IMHO, this could lead to potential ramifications, especially if this happens again.

Comments, anyone?
 
I will be surprise if this doesn't ruin FUNimation's deal with Fuji and Toei but I REEEEEAALLY hope it doesn't.

And might I add this probably wouldn't come to anyone's attention before the Sunday broadcast if no one reported it. So way to go snitch.
 
And it's up to us to show them it's a product that can make them money. It may have been the advertisers who took issue because they were sold brand-new content that leaked. Which is why I wouldn't mind getting the show on iTunes if that's what it came down to- just as I pay close to $30 a month to get He-Man figures instead of none at all. Now, part of onepieceofficial.com seems to be to sell merchandise (Forbidden Planet in NYC carries Chopper patches with the OPC url on back) using the episodes as both advertising, a source of ad revenue and a loss leader.
 
Navarre is going to get on them if this happens and FUNi will face a possible liquidation (Chapter 7) if the japanese companies takes the licences of all the shows listed on the site away.
 
I hope Funi and Toei work together to punish the jackass(es) who did this and then they can start the siumlcast. Really, tis could help One piece and cut down on some of the subbing.
 
This is why I didn't support this to begin with. The only people who have seen that far into the series are people who watched the illegal fansubs. Why on earth would Funimation want to cater to those people? I could understand if they wanted to do streaming of the new episodes AFTER they caught up, but to do same day streaming when the other 400 episodes aren't available legally is just rewarding people who watch fansubs.
 
Best news ever? Best news ever.

I mean... I can't even go into more detail than that. I've never even seen past Skypeia - or read past Skypeia, for that matter - and while incredibly confusing it's also incredibly awesome to see widescreen fantasmagoric fancy pants One Piece in action.

...but why is his vest blue?
 
I guess they did this because unless FUNi speeRAB up the releases and/or the Japanese airings take a break for a while, we wouldn't catch up to the Japanese airings.
 
Er, those things are not going to happen. Most companies are not like Toei, and Funi was doing just fine long before its streaming video venture ever started. In response to concerns posted a bit earlier, video streaming in general won't be going anywhere. There's too much incentive.
 
...God, I was just kidding when I told a certain TZ meraber to leak it. Not that he was the one who leaked it, but still, I didn't want this to happen.

I really hope Toei just lets Funi off with a warning, so they can heighten their security before next week.
 
Funimation is one of the only profitable sections of Navarre. If they liquidate them their stock will tank completely and they'll go just go bankrupt. Then again if Funi gets all its licenses pulled they'd probably go bankrupt anyway, but the point is that Navarre is not going to bail on Funi completely, it would be suicide for them.
 
Because there is no law that says the characters can't change their clothes that's why!

(He was wearing orange in the previous arc)

EDIT: I love how no matter what website I go to now, FUNi keeps showing this One Piece ad. Excellent (rubs hanRAB menacingly)
 
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