Dear Staff,

This is Lance Heiskell at FUNimation Entertainent. We can confirm that FUNimation Entertainment has obtained an agreement authorizing FUNimation to act on behalf of d-rights to prevent infringement on specific titles.

The authorization agreement for d-rights is for 5 series in total:
Monochrome Factor
Nabari no Ou
Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn
Bamboo Blade
El Cazador de la Bruja

Though these series have not been licensed to a local distributor in North America, it is important to note that the rights owned by Japanese producers are still applicable, and enforceable, worldwide.

One behalf of d-rights, please drop Nabari no Ou and remove all torrents from http://tracker.anirena.com/ other torrent tracker sites and your irc channel.

Here is the DMCA notification for Nabari no Ou - worldwide.

August 19, 2008

wordpress@iloverumi.com
www.iloverumi.com
Rumi Productions

RE: Copyright Infringement

In compliance with relevant federal copyright law, I submit the following:

I hereby certify, under penalty of perjury, that the following information is accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief.

I am an employee of FUNimation Entertainment. I am authorized to act on behalf FUNimation Entertainment (“FUNimation”) with respect to the matters discussed herein.

d-rights Inc. (“d-rights”) has authorized FUNimation to take enforcement actions on behalf of d‑rights for the purpose of stopping copyright infringement. d‑rights owns and controls various exclusive copyrights and trademarks related to the animated motion pictures known as, Nabari no Ou collectively referred to as the “Property”. Among the exclusive rights of d‑rights in the Properties are the rights for production and distribution of home videos, DVDs, and other home video formats and devices.

Our investigations reveal that the above referenced site is being used for the unauthorized copying and distribution (downloading, uploading, file serving/swapping, streaming, stream embedding, torrent seeding, torrent tracking, torrent linking, other linking, link aggregating or any similar activities) of digital files embodying the Property. The use of the Property in this manner is NOT authorized by d‑rights and is a violation of d‑rights’ intellectual property rights, including its rights under the Copyright Act.

FUNimation Entertainment hereby demands that you expeditiously disable all access to said infringing materials.

If you should require any further information please do not hesitate to contact me by email at Legal2@funimation.com. The physical and mailing address of FUNimation Entertainment is 1200 Lakeside Pkwy, Bldg 1, Flower Mound, TX, 75028. Please contact me immediately if this notification is not in substantial compliance with the requirements of the DMCA, or if some other problem arises with respect to our request. I would also request notification of your compliance with our request.

Sincerely,
Lance Heiskell
FUNimation Entertainment

And that’s that.

Also available on IRC. Sorry for the delay. Usually I don’t post personal issues up here, but over the weekend I caught some allergic reaction that made my arm swollen. So, I didn’t really feel like typing. Anyway, it’s almost back to normal and typing isn’t so bad now, so I managed to get this done first. In before Nabari 18.

In before the storm. Also, here are some notes about this week’s dialogue. Not important at all, but for those who don’t know or like to know:

1. At the part where Mr. Hara says, “Are you even speaking Japanese?” Gouta here is speaking in some kind of Surfer talk, which happens to be very Engrish (Japanese-English). So to any regular Japanese, what he’s saying hardly makes sense.

2. At the end Gouta mentions moving a Pachinko Pinball. In Japan there are these machines that are like pinball machines but vertical. They’re a type of machine for gambling. Here’s the wiki: Link

Note: A v2 uploaded, had to change a line, it wasn’t Loch Ness but Lake District.

BT

I’ll also update the FAQ, it’ll include some extra steps to muxing scripts, also some quick tips on how to get an AVI of your own.