Fansub Donations
Article, Fansubs — By Dark_Sage on September 17, 2010 8:55 pm
This post was written by Dark_Sage. He is Dark_Sage.
If a group can’t afford to operate without donations, it’s best that the group is dissolved anyway. If a fansub group is in dire straits and says it needs money, the group is lying. They’re getting free materials (raws/programs used), free labor (very few fansubbers actually get paid – paying people to sub is retarded), and free distribution (DDL/torrents/bots/DC++). The only reason they’d get into a shit situation is if they (and by “they” I mean the one or two people who are actually putting down money for a server) really fucked up their finances.
But if you really want to support a group going through some trouble that they got themselves into, the best thing to do is let it collapse. Let those kids take a break from fansubbing to, oh, I don’t know, find a job maybe? A few hours of working would earn them enough to pay off any debt they were stupid enough to get themselves into, and would even let them salvage the bit of pride they lost by begging strangers on the internet to support their stupidity.
Dark_Sage 
skullking123 
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2ColouredEyes 
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yea but if you want the release to come out faster donations do help. Say you have a server that you personally pay for. It has ok performance. If people donate then the guy who usually pays for the server will be able to afford to get another one with better performance.
Also TV raws dont cost money but DVDs and BDs do. I wont say you wont be able to find them on a p2p program but they don’t always show up. Also if you are able to buy them then you wont have to stare at a program waiting for someone to upload the ISO/BDMV.
In conclusion, no donations aren’t “necessary” but if you want to speed up the process it certainly helps.
P.S. bots arent free they run off a server/seedbox