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ODEX倒す！！
逆襲のオタ
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The Action Figures had a party at Youth Park. If the Singaporean anime fans, IT geeks and otaku could have taken to the streets to express their sentiments on the ODEX saga, it would probably look something like this.
MAJULAH!!
On 25 August, at 1600hrs, the Action Figures made their presence felt at the Youth Park.
Know Your Legal Rights!
For those who’re concerned about ODEX’s legal threats, do know that the company isn’t standing on firm legal grounds. The recent news such as this would give those who’d been ODEXed some hope: “Anime case: Odex had ‘no right of civil action’” (Today Online). The recent ruling on the ODEX-PacNet case shed some light on ODEX’s legal position. In the Straits Times article “Odex-PacNet ruling may set online privacy precedent“, District Judge Ernest Lau who presided over the hearing, arrived at his judgment for denying ODEX access to PacNet’s subscribers’ identities based on two reasonings:
* The draconian and drastic consequences of such an order upon the receiving party; ie, thus, an extremely strong standard of proof would be required for such an order in a civil case.
* A proper action for copyright infringement should be brought directly by the Japanese anime studios or the EXCLUSIVE LICENSEE. Odex is a sub-licensee but Odex is NEITHER the copyright owner nor EXCLUSIVE LICENSEE of the anime titles.
Skywander who posted the thread “Odex owned you; time to own Odex back :)” on Hardwarezone’s Eat-Drink-Man-Woman section brought attention to the statute on “Groundless threats of legal proceedings“. That could work in favour of those who received the threatening letters from ODEX.
Fan-sub is Fair Use!
ODEX
DOWN WITH ODEX
SINGNET, Where Were Your Lawyers?
Angry Ape
ODEX 倒す!
ODEX = AVPAS
Konfrantasi
They are bringing their message to the odeXman.
odeXman!
The cybersleuths on Hardwarezone’s EDMW sub-community managed to dig up more dirt on ODEX’s past. Some one had done a look up an ACRA, and stumbled upon the Games Mart scandal. The current partners of ODEX formerly had a hand in Games Mart. This company was shut down after it was busted for selling pirated products.
Many of the local anime fans and otakus feel that the quality of ODEX’s products, even though licensed, are no better than the kind of pirated anime VCD that Games Mart sold. So we should treat ODEX’s products like how we treat pirated videos:
Stomp crush!
RIP
Recycle ODEX VCD? I wonder if you could recycle this:
Recycle This!
This could have been one of the most Foolish thing that I’ve done.
I went ahead with the People’s Action Figure Party photoshoot, not knowing who will turn up or what to expect.
Some anti-ODEXists came and contributed their action figures for the photoshoot. Thanks, for all those who contributed and helped (Joo Khai, Zaric + friend, Psyke, Pp + friend, sesshomaru_haku, Cuz). Thanks! You guys made this photoshoot possible.
Also present were those who burnt their weekend to keep the peace. I salute them.
p.s. I have a lot of thoughts regarding this episode that happened. Shall leave that for another entry. Have to sleep now. The morning call is at 0330hrs.
COOOOOOL!!!!!!!!! SALUTE A BILLION!!!!!
and thanks for saving the environment..
heh, it was really fun…and thanks for organizing it! :)
Is this another epic win besides the burning of VCDs??? lawl
I lol’d @ “konfrontasi”.
Nice… Site linked.
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lolz this is too funny!
Wow that looks like Hebrew O.O
You sure have a diverse following of readers…
Courageous n Cool! Now I have new found respect for some of the Singaporean bloggers!
I’m glad I brought my Ultraman figure there. Even a Chaiyo product joins in the fight against Odex!
The best protest is to download MOAR anime! actually, if we download from sites like da-anime.org, they can never catch us.
[...] bring my gurren lagan, it was still in box so i didnt want to risk any damages. The coverage in Zer0’s [...]
how many people turn up anyway?
ODEX 倒す!!!!
LOL very entertaining lah!!
Nice job, kudos to those who took part!
no legal ground but still harass downloaders AND laugh about it AND previously was partnered with people who were PIRATES???? WTF!!! Thanks for holding the protest. Its sad that in singapore its down to the toys to stand up for the fans. People just cant do anything here.
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Sign Petition At http://www.odexsucks.com/index.php. Its not by me. But you can consider.
way to go, lets own them, i admire ur actions, i wanna join
*feels sorry that V didn’t bring any figurines and came late, somemore*
xD
We should also stop focusing on SS though. He seems to be the scapegoat, of course he did some things, but the majority shareholder is PG and PG was the one who showed up in court for Pacnet case, not SS.
Salute you guys for going so far out!
Wow… you guys went ahead with it? I thought it was cancelled.
Would have gone down to give you guys some support.
*Salute*
Nicely done. ^_^ so far, the best blog to follow for some Anti-Odex actions !!
@yallo: yeah, it’s hebrew. I’ve been reading here for quite some time, ever since tsubaki of Anime Desho Desho wrote about this blog. This blog actually got me into a bit of tokusatsu, although so far I’ve only watched Kamen Rider Kabuto and Den-O.
that post was about how odex lost the case against PacNet and how the Youth Park meeting actually took place, despite the fact that the it was initially canceled.
fantastic photoshoot…. you should have let me know… i could have bring my gundam models
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nicely done :)
great job on spreading awareness on the xedo fiasco! btw that ultraman looks damn articulate…
Actually im jus wondering, can those ppl sue odex for blackmailing them now? afterall its like blackmail to demand for money or take them to court esp when now we all know they dun have the rights to do so?
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Excellent way for fans to let their voices be heard. However lets prepare ourselves for the next LIKELY xedo offense. The saga continues…
lol nice work guys! glad that you’re no longer harming the planet and destroying ODEX stuffs ^^; *salutes* So how many people has been blackmailed? How about pushing them (you know who) further and suing them for striking fear to all anime fans?
Good Going! someone said that the meeting was cancelled so i didn’t turn up.. but u’re the man Zero!
Cool protest! Great job! The odeXman was hilarious.
I will ODEXed everyone here (o.o)y
*salutes*
That was frickin’ awesome!!
Woow, if you’ve got such protest coming up, let me know and i will join
Next up, Singnet should recive similar treatment
you’re awesome! totally support you and your beliefs!
Great job. I think that anime action figure protest was really witty.
[...] pic taken from site. [...]
dang…love how you destroyed them cds XD. i think next thing we should do is, storming up to ODEX main office and destroy it
oh man! good work!!
2 THUMBS UP!
well done! down with ODEX! boycott all ODEX products and watch anime online.
But dont celebrate too early yet. We still dont know whats gonna happen in ODEX’s appeal case. We all know how Sg courts and Sg govt work dont we?
If ODEX wins the appeal, it might just set a precedent for more distributors of movies/TV shows to follow suit and they WE WILL ALL be in deepshit!
If ODEX’s appeal is thrown out, then sg net users will reign free in the virtual world, free to dl as much as we like via torrents.
If they had a choice in this…. who do you think the authorities would side?
- torrent for thought.
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Well, nice to see a fresh prospective and how they demonstrate it when one voice their civil concern.
Seriously.. its time to boycott their inferior quality products.. tho i doubt any of us actually bought any of their stuff in the first place.. I rather save up, pay more and order my anime frm Japan or the us.. atleast it’ll be worth my money instead of the crap quality n limited titles tat con of a company is tryin to sell.. keep up the gd work guys!! =)
WOOOO DOWN WITH ODEX, later they will see Anti-ODEX terrorist XD
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Very criative.
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Congratulations, and take off the publisher’s door :)
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Good Job Guys…. Two Thumbs up for you…
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