We Suck Fansubs

Since we plan to set up a PayPal account for donations, I figured we should post our policies now.

1. We Suck Fansubs translates and distributes subtitled television animation series for which no North American interest holds the North American distribution rights. We do not and will not, now or at any time, under our own name or any other, translate for the purposes of distribution television series for which a North American interest holds the North American distribution rights.


2. We Suck Fansubs' official means of distribution is via our BitTorrent page, located at http://a.scarywater.net/suck. Any file created by We Suck Fansubs may be distributed freely as long as that file is available for download from that page. Once a file is removed from that page (which will be announced on this page), we expressly forbid distribution of that file. Furthermore, we expressly forbid any unauthorized commercial use of our translations, or of any file which was at any time available on that page.


3. We Suck Fansubs will not extract audio or video data from any commercially available medium for the purposes of distribution. This includes, but is not limited to, DVD rips. We will not knowingly use audio or video data thus extracted for the purposes of distribution, and if we find that a file we released contains such data, we will cease distribution of that file immediately.


4. We Suck Fansubs will purchase at least one copy of the Region 2 DVD containing any episode of animation for which we produced a translation, provided that the animation is not licensed for North American distribution by a North American interest at the time the DVD is released. Upon receipt of this DVD, we will release our timed scripts from the episodes that DVD contains in the format of DVDSubber, a freeware program which allows subtitles to be dynamically added to a DVD as it plays. This release will also include english translations of the episode summaries from the official website of the television program, for the episodes whose translation that file contains. When this file is released, we will make the TV ripped version of that episode unavailable from our BitTorrent page. As the translations are our work, we intend for them to remain available even after their associated television series become licensed. This is to ensure that a person who purchased the Region 2 DVD with the intent of using our translations to watch it, still has those translations available to them when that DVD arrives, even if the show becomes licensed by the time that DVD arrives. We may make additional distribution arrangements should the policy of a site we are using to host our scripts disallow their distribution after the licensing of our show; however, such arrangements have no bearing on the distribution of the video files, which must cease immediately upon announcement of licensing.

Hopefully that covers all the bases. Basically, once we have PayPal up, don't donate unless you agree with how we're going to do things. On the other hand, if you would buy the R2 for a show we're subbing, but are worried about it not having subtitles, drop a few dollars into our account to support our purchase of the DVD so we can give you the subtitles you want.
Oh, and if you're selling VCDs of our stuff on eBay, I hate you.