ADV: Funimation is an Illegal Monopoly

ADV (Section23/Sentai Filmworks/ASV Holdings) counter-sued and accused accused FUNimation as an illegal monopoly.

Trolls on the ANN forum have responded to the article.

 "(expletive) dubs, (expletive) use of voice actors, (expletive) business practices, blah blah blah"

Apparently, people don't want to buy legal DVDs and downloading things for free, aka piracy.

One poster commented:

"I'm pretty sure he's parodying the common idea that fansubs are the reason the industry is crashing."

While online piracy are common through fansubbing is the cause of the anime industry in jeopardy, global currencies are declining, the Eurozone is near an end due to Greece election and other bailouts including Portugal and Spain. Germany handles the Euro common currency.

The few responses in the ANN forums that all favor for FUNimation to close its doors if the Harris County Texas District Judge sides with ADV.  Most of all it could not only cost FUNimation's CEO Gen Fukunaga to lose his business, it could cost his citizenship and risk deportation back to Japan, just remember what happened to News Corp and the phone hacking scandal. If the Federal Government find that Rupert Murdoch was not only running an illegal monopoly, but an illegal duopoly, he would not only risk to lose the Dow, the Fox networks, News corp owned newspapers including the Miami Sun, and his business, but he would also lose his US citizenship and risk deportation, and the UK would sentence him to imprisonment. But the US Feds did nothing, because they didn't have enough evidence to prove it. They didn't remember if News Corp did the hacking. Most of all, UK incidents have no connection to the US.

The fate of FUNimation rests in the hands of the District Judge.