Nabeshin/Ayres panel at Oni-Con: The anime industry might only have five years...

Well, if the other thread got 500 posts of: "Mike, you're full of
***.", "Mike, you're a nutter.", etc...

Prepare for 1000 more.

I happened, through an ANN link, to find this link of an appearance by
Nabeshin at Oni-Con about 2-3 weeks ago.

http://www.activeanime.com/html/content/view/1967/2/

Now, let's make no bones: Absolutely anti-downloading site. "Keep it
legal. Save the industry."

Absolutely anti-downloading panel. Greg Ayres (who ran the panel)
has, according to the text material, spent the last three years on
this subject at some of his con appearances and, when Nabeshin found
out about this panel on anti-fansubbing/downloading, took time off his
schedule at the con to make sure he was at this panel.

But, basically, the message was this:

Nabeshin said _REPEATEDLY_ that there was no incentive for him to
continue to create new works under the present paradigm. There was no
reason for him to continue making anime in a piracy-driven medium.

One person who was at the panel (and this might be stated directly in
one of the six video clips of Nabeshin (through an interpreter)
speaking at the panel) said the message went on to say that anime will
be gone (I'll state a "might" on that one) in 5 years unless
downloading is stopped.

Note: I'm not talking the US industry now. I'm talking the whole
damn shooting match.

And Nabeshin said they don't have the tech to do it technologically.

Of course, at that point, one question I would like to ask Ayres is
how they expect to change such a piracy-driven industry (specifically
over here in the US) to one which gives everyone what they might be
due.

I'd also like to ask him about some of the stuff I've talked about
here (what price point the industry might be willing to support,
etc.)...

And one more, before I get to some wrap-up points:

How would a Greg Ayres (or a Nabeshin no less!) answer those who say
that the people want the material on their terms and not on the terms
of those who own it?

Getting hands on this brings up a couple questions:

First, I've heard a couple people say that (in the paraphrased words
of one of them) that there haven't been many recent animes to "give a
toss about". Anyone want to assert the possibility that the reason
that the quality of anime might have gone down (in these people's
opinion) is that there is no incentive to make more creative anime --
and just to stick to what genres might sell?

Second, which would you rather have at this point:

Either to get the stuff on your own terms?

or

To risk the possibility (and I will state it openly as a risk) that no
more stuff is coming?

Mike

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