How to fix the industry, part 3
The Baka-Raptor way
When I asked Kabitzin my survey question, I knew I’d probably get something short but well thought out, like most of his posts. When I asked this next blogger, I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to get. Baka-Raptor, known (since the day of his sell-out) by the same name as his Maddox-worshipping site Baka-Raptor.com, is in law school, and promises a blog post on international copyright law sometime in the next decade. He’s great at distilling his opinions down more concisely than just about anyone (see Kurenai: “The ending was terrible.”). Here’s what he had to say:
I’d appoint myself overlord of the anime industry. All anime production would be under my control. Anime would be so good that everybody would want to buy it. Problem solved.
But if that can’t happen…
I believe in the free market. Anime is a desirable enough product that it’ll make it over here in some way, shape, or form. Whether it’s downloadable, streaming, DVD, dual audio, on TV, first episode free, all you can watch for a monthly fee, or some new business model nobody will see coming, things will work out in the long run. We just need to let business run its course.
I submit this as proof that all so-called Libertarians actually believe in dictatorships. Just leave your guns at home when you go vote for Ron Paul this November, ya fascist!
I kid.
I’ve never been one to think that the market corrects itself automatically, but I’m no economist. Frankly, it seems like someone’s got to actually do something while we sit around waiting for “business to run its course.” Fundamentally though, I am with the dinosaur. Boil it down, he’s saying the sky is not falling, and that the onus isn’t on the consumers to hold the sky back anyway.
Are you with BR, or do we as consumers have more responsibility to make something happen in the short run?
My response may seem lazy and irresponsible. Yeah. It’s a case of everybody getting into a huge brawl, dust flying up in the air, and me sneaking out of the pile while everybody else continues to throws blind punches.
Right now the down/free-loaders have it easy. It’s up to the industry to make a move (other than whining). Keep in mind that “business” as I used it is a two-way street. Once the industry makes a move, it’s up to the fans to react. Then the industry needs to act once more. Everybody fights for their own interests, and in the long, we reach an equilibrium of sunshine and rainbows.
And who is this Matthew?
Ron Paul 2012
I don’t know, he is an enigmatic artist who goes simply by “Matthew, age 7.”
Ahaha, the drawing of Baka-Raptor is so terribly adorable~
Looks like drama-free opinions don’t sell. Nobody wants to hear that everything will be fine (a.k.a. the truth). They just want to bitch and bitch and bitch. That’s good. They bitch so I don’t have to. That’s what drives the market from the consumer end. Just as planned. Now excuse me while I take a nap.
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