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xBloodmancerx Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:38 am
Dattebayo Staff Arrested at Otakon
2007/07/22
Baltimore, MD USA
Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:10PM EDT
Today at 5:57 five members of the Dattebayo staff were arrested at the Baltimore Convention Center as they prepared for their panel as part of the Otakon Convention. Four uniformed police officers, along with legal counsel of a complaintent company, approached the stage shortly before the presentation was to begin. Witnesses said that along with the arrest, the officers seized the laptop of one of the group members, which was intended to be used for presentation purposes.
The officers, as well as the lawyers, would not respond to media inquires regarding the reason for these arrests beyond stating that they stemmed from the illegal reproduction of copyrighted works.
The panel, which was originally called "Fansubbing/Manga Scanlation" was recently renamed to "Dattebayo Fansubbing". Experts speculate that this may have alerted authorities to the location of the group members and left an opportunity for this course of action.
Witness reactions varied including one Richard Sequoa who said, "I just can't believe something like this could happen at our convention." Another witness, a Judy Hibertson, said, "I'm glad. This is what they get for their constant trolling. It's just not funny!"
When asked to comment, group member Interacti said, "I've been told by my lawyer not to say anything because of the sensitive nature of legal matters however this has been a trying experience and I'm glad my new cell-mate "Spikes" has been there to comfort me."
THIS HAD BETTER BE A TROLL OR SOMEONE IS REALLY GOING TO GET SHOT!
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:40 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:45 pm
I never heard anything about this.
Maybe it's because I have no reason to. I hardly ever go to Dattebayo website. Because I don't have Torrent. :/
Although how would they know these people were actually the Staff?
Many reasons but... shush. >>;
Suspicious~
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:58 pm
Moonlight Hitokiri I never heard anything about this.
Maybe it's because I have no reason to. I hardly ever go to Dattebayo website. Because I don't have Torrent. :/
Although how would they know these people were actually the Staff?
Many reasons but... shush. >>;
Suspicious~ I don't have torrent, either. They were pretty well-known, though. I'm hearing this on a few of the Naruto-related guilds I'm a member of.
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xBloodmancerx Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:08 pm
They were released under Bail
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:31 pm
i cant believe that happened... eek
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:56 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:42 am
I thought they couldn't get arrested for copy right infringement unless they were trying to make money off of it...they weren't selling the fan subbed episodes were they?
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--The Trusty Sidekick-- Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:51 am
It's illegal. Basically;
Just like with anything else, you have to pay for it. Infrigment, no matter what the copyright, is an illegal action. D/L TV shows and movies is against the law, but this being cyber space it is really hard to track someone; but Dattebyo put their name on everything and after they began to troll people with all their lameeeee lies people began to get pissed. For all we know, someone could have just gotten mad enough to rat them out.
Copyright on their page, only stops other people who sub and allow people to D/L, from taking their stuff. Naruto and Naruto Shippuuden under copyright of Shonen Jump and TV Tokyo (I believe) And Now Sony has bought into it, and all that good stuff. They have to take it from the TV and put it online, sub it, and allow us to Torrent it.
Very illegal.
And though they are out on bail. The trial will be coming up. This is going to be doozy. Believe me, this isnt the last of this that we are going to hear. It could be very bad for the Subbing industry. It's not going to stop it, just slow it down. Such as Napster, then came all the other good places.
It serves them right for trolling, but It sucks about the consequeces.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:10 pm
I knew it I EFFIN KNEW IT DATTEBAYO ARE EFFING A-HOLES!!
Dattebayo Staff NOT Arrested at Otakon [YOU HAVE BEEN TROLLED]
2007/07/22
Attention people of the internet, you have been trolled!
So well in fact, you caused news organizations and corporations to be fooled into thinking it was true.
Well it wasn't, it was a big joke. Some of you got it from the beginning, as the text YHBT clearly appeared at the bottom of the page, and some of you are still fooled to this day.
There were so many clues that this was a troll from start to finish and yet it fooled a lot of people, and caused trouble for some. If it caused you trouble directly, you are an idiot for not getting it. If it caused you trouble by other people causing you trouble, we apologize, our intention is only to trick OUR fans, and not to cause trouble for other persons or organizations. Think carefully about the places you get your news, especially when it's us.
No arrests of DB staff took place at Otakon and none have ever taken place. No one was injured or died as a result. No police were involved. If something like that was to actually happen, you would not hear about it on the DB website. You would not hear about it at all.
We wish to also personally apologize to Otakorp, the parent company of Otakon, who suffered unduly due to our false press release.
YHBT
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xBloodmancerx Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:23 pm
I knew it. They're such butts. I believed it until I looked at the site and saw YHBT at the bottom of the article.
But yeah, I had a good laugh.
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:41 pm
To be completely and totally honest:
I never really was fond of Dattebayo from the beginning and when they started trolling people, that's when I stopped usuing their s**t all together. The only time I watch anything of Dattebayo's is when I don't have time to torrent them and I use Youtube, and in all technicality, I'm not using them directly.
I've stopped using them, and so have a lot of my friends. Karma is going to be a b***h when they get what's coming to them. I do really hope that they get arrested : )
Assholes.
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--The Trusty Sidekick-- Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:36 pm
gonk
I'm very pissed now. Getting all concerned for nothing. *picks up torch and pitchfork*
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