Licensed Dramas To Be Removed

A while ago I received a letter from a law firm that represents YA Entertainment telling me to remove any licensed product of YA Entertainment from D-A or face infringement charges.

Anybody who is in the anime world would probably be familiar with this. Fansubbers make subtitles of anime and release them to the public, once the anime is licensed in the western world the fansubbers would stop releasing them and encourage the fans to purchase the subbed licensed product.

The drama world has always been a lot smaller than the anime world in the english speaking country but it looks like its grown big enough to start running into this issue.

D-Addicts goal was and is to spread the joy of asian dramas to as many people as possible. With over 90,000 registered users we have certainly done well in the 3 and bit years of operating. We want to continue operating and also encourage the support of licensed products since this money goes back into the industry and allows the production of more dramas for us all to enjoy.

So with this in mind we are removing any dramas that have been licensed by YA Entertainment. Also, in future, please do not upload these dramas. Licensed dramas are listed on their site http://www.yaentertainment.com

I hope the users can understand this and continue to support both the commerical and fanworks side of asian dramas.

LIST OF LICENSED DRAMAS

UPDATE: Oct 1,2009 (mizune)
We received a similar letter from Toei about removing any Kamen Rider series. As such, existing Kamen Rider episodes will be removed from the tracker. Please do not upload these shows in the future.
Thanks

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:51 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hmm... That kills off a lot of shows, and will likely kill off a huge chunk of future ones before they get off the ground.

The phrase "that totally bites ass" comes to mind. Starting to wonder if the time'll come soon where I actually have to start watching some of those umpteen billion series I've had burned off over the years...

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:46 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Will this affect subtitles, Clubbox links, etc. for licensed series?

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:53 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

so are the only ones being removed are the ones listed on the YA entertainment catalog? man this sucks big time.

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:55 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

How many dramas are we talking about here? Just by their website, I already saw a few of my favourites... the list is still growing every week as well. Also, is there a time frame being set? So that we could finish off the incompletes?

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:58 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh JuMong is listed!

Our team D-Fansubs, worked so hard on that series and now it's going to be removed Crying

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:15 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

gahhhhh i just realized that damo is on that list... and i'm still trying to finish it. i'm only half way done.

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:19 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

what the.. how did they license Meteor Rain but not Meteor Garden Whistling

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:27 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

this sucks... big time. pale

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well, guess this pretty much kills finishing off "Lawyers" and the reworked version of "Last Dance Is With Me" that I've been working on.

So how are we going to deal with series that are in various stages of release at the moment, and series like Goong 2 and others that will be sequels of shows on the list?

How quickly will Yaentertainment be getting them licensed, and how far back will they be going? Sandglass and ROYOW go back a bit, so it's logical to conclude that they'll be looking to license quite a few more of the older K-dramas...

Any timeframe on when shows will start to be removed from the tracker?

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:39 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

This is sad news. I saw that Jumong has been removed already. I just started watching this series Sad

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:39 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Not to mention the fact that they're charging over $100 per series. Get real YA, this is beyond ridiculous...

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:40 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

cool! It's only for Korean dramas! Tongue

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:43 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0