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Seriously? They slap translators with C&D's? Are they planning on doing a translation or are they just being dicks?

 

no point continuing that crappy translation anyway >.>

its after all...a MACHINE TRANSLATION

 

you have Translator Aggressor for that~~

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Seriously? They slap translators with C&D's? Are they planning on doing a translation or are they just being dicks?

 

Some companies are just dicks, like Yosuga No Sora's creators or Eiyuu Senki's creators.

 

This is because of an incident with erotic material a few years ago that caused quite a stir in the west when it came out for sale on Amazon.

 

Reviews by Something Awful and Honest Gamers express horror at the basis for the game. Critics of violent game imagery, such as British Member of Parliament Keith Vaz, have cited games involving rape as an example of why video game content needs to be more strictly regulated.

 

RapeLay in particular had come to Vaz's attention as being one of the rape games purchasable on Amazon.com, and he vowed to bring the issue into the British Parliament to prevent the game from being sold. Amazon subsequently removed the game from its website. Equality Now followed up on the game, urging activists to write to Illusion and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso in protest, arguing the game breaches Japan's obligations under the 1985 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. These actions have culminated in the restriction of the sale and production of RapeLay by the Ethics Organization of Computer Software (EOCS), an independent Japanese ratings organization for adult games, making the purchase of the game impossible.

The distribution of RapeLay has been banned in Australia due to a campaign run by Women's Forum Australia, under the directorship of Melinda Tankard Reist. Minister for Broadband Stephen Conroy (also behind the Australian Labor Party's internet filter plans) wanted Google Australia to censor search results for downloads of the game, but this did not eventuate.

 

The game has also earned the dubious honor of being the first, and only game to date, to be effectively banned in Argentina.

 

Citing RapeLay as an example, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in his concurring opinion vis-à-vis the case Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association wrote, "It...appears that there is no antisocial theme too base for some in the video-game industry to exploit."

Articles in defence have also been written, many noting that rape is a lesser crime compared to murder, yet there are thousands of legal video games in which the goal is to kill enemies. Illusion's response to the controversy was one of bewilderment and a reiteration that the game passed Japanese laws and is not sold outside Japan. Illusion later removed references to the game from their website and ceased distribution of the game, citing concerns over the impact on the industry.

 

Since then many companies are afraid of the western market (Sphere) and prefer to keep their games in japan only and even block outside IPs (Alicesoft).

 

But in the case of MangaGamer, this probably means that translating DC3 is in their plans, that's why they C&D'ed Aaeru to not cripple sales when it comes out.

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I was referencing Wairu rage but okay, keep starting up fights with random people ulti 2

 

wairu rage???

you meanthis and this

 

if so...

then you are dumb >.>

 

 

and from what i see...

gtlw aint starting a flamewar >.>

its you were the one trying to start one here

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War between Wolf and Ulti?

Nope. Did you forget to wear The Granny Glasses again, OMA? lol Jk, jk. xD

 

an epic showdown, fightoh~

 

http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq300/roken_rakoon/Sigs/Nichijou-HakasePopcorn.gif

Radiant, loppez is looking for you. This will be an epic battle in an equally epic contest. Go my fav pokemon. I choose you, Radiant!

 

http://i.imgur.com/UcuAdlW.jpg

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