Sold Out?

Ahh....the latest web crusade. I love these things. Now as I’m sure you all know, I get some form of sick pleasure from writing editorials over the latest DBZ controversy. So, I reckon i’ll speak about Full Episode Sites.

Full Episode Sites are sites that take DBZ episodes, encode them and distribute them for free on the net. Sound pretty harmless, don’t they? I’m pretty sure you’ve been to these sites, downloaded them and watched. Don’t be fooled my friends. All Full Episode Sites are a division of the DBZ Cult.

Farfetched, you say? Impossible, you scream? As Kurt Angle (An Olympic Hero and Three-Time Gold Medal Winner) says, “Oh, its true. Its true.” Think about it. Why are these episodes put up? Most of them are for free. There is no real monetary gain from it. The episodes are usually fansubs of unreleased DBZ material. This stuff is given away to get you hooked on the doctrine of the Cult- “Subbed Is Awesome. Dubbed Is The Devil’s Tool”. And when these episodes are shown, WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE OWNER, that is called stealing. FUNimation gets culled of the money and royalties that rightfully belong to it. If this kind of crap continues, then DBZ could actually be considered losing money (okay, that’s kinda extreme) and discontinue showing DBZ in the US, something that the DBZ fans have been fighting for.

I’ll admit, I was sucked into these sites before. Long, long ago, there was a site (can’t remember the name of it, I think it was called the New Saiyan Cinema) that offered free DBZ episodes! I downloaded every episode I could, from where Season 2 ended, right until Vegeta gets killed by Frieza. The site shut down soon after, thus hooking me on DBZ worse than ever before. Besides, why would you want to download them? They are of typical crappy fansub quality, they are shown on a screen that is WAY too small and then you can’t read the subtitles! Kinda defeats the quality, dontcha think?

What can you do? Don’t go to these sites. Report them to FUNimation. Tell your friends not to go. Avoid these sites like the plagues. The sad part is, these sites don’t seem to realize their end is soon, with all the DBZ episodes being released in America at a steady rate. Soon, oh so soon.

Oh, and by the way (you’ll notice I typed “by the way”. I absolutely HATE IT when people put “BTW”. Are you so goddamn lazy that you can’t type 5 letters and 3 spaces?! Jesus...), if you think I’ve “sold out”, you’ve lost your everlovin’ mind. Nothing pisses me off more than when people try to get a few quick hits to their site by showing off stuff that doesn’t even belong to them. I hate it when people STEAL from others. If you think I’ve sold out, then write me an e-mail and i’ll be sure to write you back about where you can go, how fast you can get there and how many shovels you can stick up your ass while you’re at it.

The Super Texas-Jin,
Jonathan “Underfaker” Lindsey