The American market for anime is a little different from Japan. Since this is a heavy focus over there, they make their money off of what gets adverteised on their shows if it isn't pay-per-view, which if it is the studio gets a percentage. Here, it's basically Adult Swim or Tech TV that runs it, and they get a slim figure for the shows they run. Most of their hard bank comes off the actual DVD sales. It sucks that it takes so long to get a dub done for a show, whereas Japanese TV has it done usually a few weeks before the show is actually ran. I think it may have to do with the fact that there is not an extensive variety in anime voice actors, since a lot end up getting recycled into shows. Since one VA make work for 2-3 anime companies at once, it's hard to contract them down to knock out a series all at once. I donno. I'm still kinda drunk as I write this, and I had a really good point to make when I started, but now I forgot.

If ADV has involvment here, I can't say I blame them. I'm sure they'll have the license to School Rumble here in the next couple of months, I think ADV or Geneon are going for the Gankutsuou, that should be around same time as SR gets announced. But it will suck for us if more studios get involved on this. I don't know how the legalities of it would work out in court, since if fansubbing was to be cracked down on, the studios would also have to go after people with personal video recorders as well. Since we're across a sea, it could be empty threats until a series is licensed; which that in itself is still a hollow threat against most, with exception to the people that burn .ogm's of actual licensed releases. I call shenanigans on that, if you enjoy the show so much to get that file you should be doing the right thing and buying the DVD. I lost my train of thought again.