See, ZMAng! I’m not the only one who misspells my username! At least I’m not alone. ^___^

We are new, hence the reason we’ve started out with a free hosting service rather than plunging into payed services and wasting money on time spent accumulating a traffic flow. However, we’ve searched for web-hosters and have found one which we intend on using.

What I don’t understand is the fuss about donating. Between you and Shareparadise, I’m getting a vague image that you believe we force our visitors to provide money for anything that we do. This is inaccurate. We provide choices for the next series to upload, series which we get from the users who are welcome to suggest an anime to offer on the polls. We looked for a way to please the masses and we believe voting is a pretty considerate way.

Currently, we haven’t received any donations, which is completely understandable since it is optional and we are new. We’ll be using a payed web-hosting service in the near future which we have no intention on making donation-dependent as I’ve stated before. Furthermore, we’re not forcing users to donate $7.50, they can donate 35 cents and we still believe that’s being quite generous. But those that do donate that much should be rewarded and we believe that letting them DIRECTLY choose an anime is a fitting way to honor their support.

And I can’t stress this enough seeing as how this is what both of you are apparently leaning on as a main support for your opinions: we will NEVER be dependent on donations, they are COMPLETELY optional and we will NEVER make a visitor pay for the FREE subbed anime we offer. This is stated multiple times, both on this site and on ours.

Conclusively, we are a free service who are looking for payed web-hosting. Donating would obviously help, but it is absolutely NOT required.

I agree lewish, I too hope that no one gets too upset over this, but thanks for your opinions.

I hadn’t checked your site until now. It appears to me that you currently host all of your anime on free file hosts (upfile). Given that your host has forced ads (as you have said), I doubt somewhat that you have to pay for hosting.

So, my thinking leads to the following:

server costs for anime downloads: 0
server costs for site traffic: 0

I begin to wonder what purpose any donations would serve other than to pay for your personal internet connection (i.e to upload anime). I have experience with writing software and websites, so I’m not in the dark as to their workings. However, I may be missing something regarding your website-related costs.

I think that it’s good that your site currently does not force its users to pay for downloads. However, I can also see someone who is inexperienced with the internet or anime downloading to pay for fansubs without knowing that he or she can get them freely elsewhere.

I think we’ve all expressed our opinions quite clearly. I hope that no-one gets upset over this. Written materials can be harder to interpret correctly than the spoken word. ^___^

Although I can understand download sites which may charge its users for bandwidth costs, charging for anime on a per series basis is morally unsound in my opinion. It is in the same vein as selling bootlegged DVD’s: I pay you x amount of money for y anime.

Personally, I won’t pay for bootlegged DVD’s. Nor, will I pay a set amount of money for downloading an anime series. I’d rather pay my x amount of money — or more if necessary — to the creators of the series by buying the official DVD discs. Artists have to eat, too.

I think that since fansubs are created on the premise of free distribution. The fansubbers are, for the most part, translating publicly-transmitted television programmes, after all. Thus, I think that fansubs should be freely distributed. Choosing to help pay for someone’s bandwidth costs is up to the end-user. There are many sites out there that provide completely free downloads, anyway.

Those are my thoughts on the subject. Since this is ZMAng’s blog, it is ultimitely his choice whether or not to review a site. I think shareparadise’s comments were of a more inquisitive nature, rather than being confrontational. But that’s just my interpretation.