Bounty hamster is kino and you should watch it. It's on youtube!
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Bounty hamster is kino and you should watch it. It's on youtube!
Already downloaded TWO rips, and seen it (once). What I really want is a proper high quality release. YES, evil producers swept the show under the rug, and I don't know how a real release would happen. Doesn't stop a man from dreaming.
Joke explained.
you're being too sluggish with your reactions
I wonder who even holds the rights to the series these days; it looks like there were three or four company involved but I'm not sure how many of them still exist.
There should be a law against IP hoarding. If you own something, but refuse to release it (and have no plans to), you must give the master/source files to another company who would. Or you will be forced to make the source files available to the public for free.
It's on multiple streaming services so it's not being hoarded exactly. Releasing it as a physical release is a different animal and there's no telling who has those rights these days. The old DVDs have Winchester Television on them and I can't tell if that company even still exists. .
That's usually the biggest obstacles in a lot of these cases, co-productions between a bunch of different questions mean messy questions about who can do with the show.
I seem to recall discussion in some of the old pony threads about how if you don't use a copyrighted character after some amount of time, you run the risk of losing the copyright? I'm no expert, but I'm sure someone here knows the specifics to that.
I checked those official uploads, they are full of interlacing artifacts. And sub optimal in quality.
That principle is in effect for trademarks, but not copyright. This matters because trademarks don't have a built-in expiration date, unlike copyright.
However, defending any IP is an act of civil litigation. The holder of any IP has to file suit against violators to actually enforce their claim, which leaves a some wiggle room for the risk-tolerant to get away with stuff. But if someone proves they can actually make money off a forgotten copyright, you should expect a claimant(s) to come out of the woodwork.
If we're talking about releasing masters, the messiest part is often going to be "who has the masters" more than who has the rights. Sometimes you get a truly awful legal tangle, but more likely is something getting lost in a vault, getting lost outside of a vault, or subjected to some kind of disaster like fire.
You wouldn't lose the copyright barring some sort of filing error or that the character has existed long enough to become public domain.
A trademark, which is probably what they were thinking of, is easier to lose since they have to be renewed about every decade or so and also require that you actively use that trademark.
Like said, the problem with getting a better quality release is the question who has the masters if they even still exist.
watch on Anon Babble suggestion
one of the most derivative, least inspired, trope-fueled things i've ever seen
turns out it's govt subsidized leaf-bongslop probably churned out to hit a quota
read Anon Babble anon's post
he has no style
he has no taste
this anon has a funny face
you
trademark
Oh, that was it. Trademark. Thanks, anon.
Going back and watching it, I think the one thing that the series doesn't reference that it could have is scifi anime. There's a smattering of game references and tons of film and television references but the closest thing to an anime joke is a pikachu standee.
There's a ton of '80s and early '90s anime references that could have worked as well; pretty much any Shirow property, the Dirty Pair, and pretty much everything that aired on Sci-Fi Channel in the early '90s.
Well, you cannot have a situation where writers seen a lot of stuff you personally like. Possible, but unlikely.
I don't quite understand what you're trying to say here.
Because I wrote it like shit.
You cannot expect creators of your shows to always like what you like.
I didn't say I did; just that references to those anime were really common in sci-fi shows back then and Bounty Hamster is one of the few that basically didn't reference any anime at all.
Star Trek in particular had a ton of references to the Dirty Pair while quite a few cartoons in the mid to late '90s referenced things like Speed Racer.
I don't think the writers were into anime (which at the time in the west was mostly action). I think they wanted to make comedy, and most japanese cartoons you saw on TV was serious (or semi serious) action.
S2 never
Why even live?
They had some plans for it; Cassie winding up being a licensed hunter was going to be a storyline in the second season that was condensed down for the clip show. The clip show replaced the episode where they recovered their ship after Marion traded it away in an earlier one.
Apparently the space pirates that attacked her ship brainwashed her father into joining them so that business about a fake bounty poster for him from the first episode might have had a much later payoff.
Really sick of the logo bumpers every 3 minutes
At least there's Cassie
Aren't those a 60s Batman reference?
Plenty of shows have/had them, they're just scene transitions/cuts for commercials
Guess they're practically a relic considering Youtube and streaming, if this was on live TV I'd be more understanding (but still annoyed)
what if cassie ran into a rogue trader
this is the best British animated series of all time