Effective immediately, Odex will not send ANY of their demanding letters to downloaders– providing that they stop downloading anime today (or, well, September 3rd, which is now over in Singapore). That’s according to this forum thread, anyway (apparently if you post very important information on a forum you aren’t required to go through an editorial check, btw– “If an individual stop downloading now…”).
Okay, I admit it, offering amnesty is pretty cool. But I’m skeptical that it will see much by way of results…
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Won’t happen.
September 4th, 2007 at 7:07 am
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