running man gone!
Apr. 11th, 2013 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coolohohedit: ah it seems like i was mistaken. the blog add changed w/o warning... glad that at least the blog wasnt taken down... or so i hope.
I'm not a fan of kpop, or kdramas... but i have to admit that running man was funny/interesting enough to attract me... and i've been watching a few episodes here and there, alone or with my parents on the tv (connected to my mum's lappy). So it came as quite a big shock to me when i went to the usual running man blog with all the subbed episode listings and found the entire blog taken down. Like wtf? since when did korea give so much shit about copy right stuff??? My sis said the blog was still up the day before, but many youtube videos were taken down already... indeed a search on google revealed loads of deleted youtube videos... and many more entries like this:
In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 27 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.
WTF? Is korea going the way of JE? Or did some US company buy the rights to show running man and started blocking the whole world's videos??? idk... but seriously? Running man would NEVER have gained such fame if it was like JE from the start, every single video taken off youtube within hours if not days. i sure hope they don't do that... after all isnt getting as much audience as possible their goal from the start? i thought that was always their goal... get as many ppl to watch or listen to their idols, dramas, shows, watever... i can't tell if this is a singular incident - the blog being taken down... or if watching running man is going to become much harder in the future... i hope it wont be though. it’s the main reason why I'm not hating kpop/kculture as much as i used to be. it'll be such a waste its gone (from the Internet)
started on this train of thought because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nekobot01 shared an article about how aiba's mum is being forced to take down all the fanmade stuff in the family restaurant. i hope is article is a fake, but yet i think it is something that JE would have done. Gaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh. I heard that even fanfic writers are scared of JE and locking their blogs with passwords and all. Yes i've seen a blog locked with password... but since my japanese is so fail i didn’t venture to read on :X I'm glad that they long tentacles have not reached the english fanfic community, and i sure hope it stays that way. It... sucks. All these fanmade stuff... its an expression of love, dedication etc to the idol... and what are idols w/o fans? nothing! You need fans to listen to their songs, watch their tv shows, buy their concert tickets and watch the concerts, buy their CDs and DVDs... gosh JE why must you do this? As if shutting your boys in japan only isnt enough? Yes your CD sales keep going up and up. But there's a limit to the number of new fans you can garner in japan, and there's a limit to how many copies of the same cd/dvd an existing fan can buy... especially when you come up with more and more versions of the same single... gah enough ranting now. peace and out!
I'm not a fan of kpop, or kdramas... but i have to admit that running man was funny/interesting enough to attract me... and i've been watching a few episodes here and there, alone or with my parents on the tv (connected to my mum's lappy). So it came as quite a big shock to me when i went to the usual running man blog with all the subbed episode listings and found the entire blog taken down. Like wtf? since when did korea give so much shit about copy right stuff??? My sis said the blog was still up the day before, but many youtube videos were taken down already... indeed a search on google revealed loads of deleted youtube videos... and many more entries like this:
In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 27 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.
WTF? Is korea going the way of JE? Or did some US company buy the rights to show running man and started blocking the whole world's videos??? idk... but seriously? Running man would NEVER have gained such fame if it was like JE from the start, every single video taken off youtube within hours if not days. i sure hope they don't do that... after all isnt getting as much audience as possible their goal from the start? i thought that was always their goal... get as many ppl to watch or listen to their idols, dramas, shows, watever... i can't tell if this is a singular incident - the blog being taken down... or if watching running man is going to become much harder in the future... i hope it wont be though. it’s the main reason why I'm not hating kpop/kculture as much as i used to be. it'll be such a waste its gone (from the Internet)
started on this train of thought because
nekobot01 shared an article about how aiba's mum is being forced to take down all the fanmade stuff in the family restaurant. i hope is article is a fake, but yet i think it is something that JE would have done. Gaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh. I heard that even fanfic writers are scared of JE and locking their blogs with passwords and all. Yes i've seen a blog locked with password... but since my japanese is so fail i didn’t venture to read on :X I'm glad that they long tentacles have not reached the english fanfic community, and i sure hope it stays that way. It... sucks. All these fanmade stuff... its an expression of love, dedication etc to the idol... and what are idols w/o fans? nothing! You need fans to listen to their songs, watch their tv shows, buy their concert tickets and watch the concerts, buy their CDs and DVDs... gosh JE why must you do this? As if shutting your boys in japan only isnt enough? Yes your CD sales keep going up and up. But there's a limit to the number of new fans you can garner in japan, and there's a limit to how many copies of the same cd/dvd an existing fan can buy... especially when you come up with more and more versions of the same single... gah enough ranting now. peace and out!
