The Defendant will Pay the Sum of One Piece

With this new of Funimation suing the public I feel like I should voice an opinion. For all who don’t know what I’m talking about the link below will take you to the story.

Funimation sues 1337 bit torrent users

I would like to point out now that this is purely my opinion the opinion of Zombifaction. My opinion doesn’t count as anyone else’s or even those of TeamNakama. Along with this I feel I should say that neither myself nor TeamNakama support the theft of anything for any reason. And that even though we Abridged the series One Piece which is owned by Funimation we are not selling the episodes and we have taken the legal route and purchased our DVD’s as well as our ripping and editing software. So please support the official release.

Now that the disclaimer is out of the way I feel that Funimation might want to hold a little bit of responsibility for itself in considering why people might be more willing to pirate the video of One Piece as opposed to waiting for a legitimate release. And I will state right now that the above article is not about One Piece episodes in general but that of Episode 481. I feel that we as fans should wait until a legal release but at the same time I understand that not only does it take a while (an understatement for One Piece) but there is a lot of work involved with the dubbing process. However the fact that Funimation seems to have given up completely on One Piece as a whole. It’s these feelings that make us want to acquire these episodes in less than legal manners.

So in my humble opinion the fault falls on both of us, consumer and producer. We each hold many of the faults for this little debacle. I understand that in the end there is no way I could change anything on either of our sides on this matter, but I would hope that this little issue that Funimation has taken action against would open their eyes a bit wider.

So hopefully Funimation will jump back on the (pirate) ship and sail it back to the mainstream. The fans want One Piece and they will go to any means to get it. I hope that Funimation sees we are here and we will go the legal way if we see it as a good deal. So come on Funimation we want our treasure, we want our One Piece!