Somebody wants to pay me for FBC...

Melchior

I feel kinda bad for him, since apparently he's in Portugal and his ISP is sucking, and FBC's a childhood favourite of his... He sent me one message, to which I recommended he pickup an Easynews account since they still had all the FBC eps, but his reply:

Keikai · Joined: 18 Feb 2002 Posts: 178 Location: Miami, FL

Ugh, that is an uncomfortable situation. As much as I sincerely sympathize with folks in unfortunate circumstances like that, I couldn't bring myself to mail something like that. I'd probably explain that I wouldn't feel comfortable and recommend a public request explaining specifically the circumstances because "selling" fansubbed anime on CD is heavily frowned upon on our groups.

If I were feeling really guilty for some reason I'd setup an FTP for the person. But I'm not sure what the person could say that would bring me to that point. For a friend I'd do it that way since, obviously, a full repost would be a waste of "public bandwidth" for sending to an individual.

Neuralblastoma · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2002 11:10 am Post subject:

If this were no later than the mid-90's I'd say go for a trade, but since it's 2002 when so many more people have high-speed internet access I'd think about it for awhile. I wouldn't say no immediately. I'd really give it some thought. Only for a trade though. No money!

I used to tape trade with a guy in the U.S. in 1995. I got his address from an issue of Animerica in the letters section. I sent him a letter(the kind written on paper) and my list of stuff(also on this thing called paper) which included alot of European and Asain horror films-he sent me his and we just started trading. For some reason we instantly trusted each other. Eventually we pissed each other off in our letters and stopped writing and trading but that's another story.

So I guess what I'm saying is, how did his letter make you feel? Do you think you can trust him? If so I don't think there's anything wrong with a straight trade. And if he's got nothing you want, ask him to send some TV shows or movies from Portugal. Could be interesting.

Jiss · Joined: 19 Feb 2002 Posts: 36 Location: Somewhere cold

The problem I found is that once you help out once, sometimes they come back and ask again and again... Sad

Tobias Rieper · Joined: 18 Feb 2002 Posts: 41 Location: Berlin, Germany

Okay, I'm a paranoid sucker and I'm sure, I'm talking now ugly about someone, who doesn't deserve it... but I would guess, it's a trap.

In germany, there are several lawers, who use this trading trick to catch people. (Small fishes, mostly kids for pirating games...)

T.Rieper

AlienBoy · Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Posts: 70 Location: Middle Management

oblio · Joined: 20 Feb 2002 Posts: 106 Location: Detroix, MI

Guh.

Here is my take:
1. This is Disney we are talking about here (even if they are NEVER going to release it). Don't up your exposure. Especially because you are posting as a favor.

2. If he can find ANYONE else in portugal, they could simply grab and repost (or trade) with the propert distrobution header on the message to prevent global distrobution. Its hard for me to believe he can't find someone else in the newsgroups to help him from his own country (or a close one- spain?).

3. The rest is best suited for a private forum.

AlienBoy · Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Posts: 70 Location: Middle Management

Whoops. I forgot that we were dealing with licensed material. I'd have to give a big negative on that one. Just disregard my earlier suggestion.