NOTE: IF YOU ARE READING THIS POST ON ANY OTHER BLOG OTHER THEN WWW.ATARUMOROBOSHI.COM IT IS NOT AUTHORIZED BY ME (ATARU) THE CONTENT CREATOR.

The other day I was looking at my site stats and I noticed a ridiculous amount of traffic coming from one domain. At first, I thought “great, someone must be really promoting the podcast.”How naive of me.

When I went to the site, what I found was a bit of a surprise - someone had posted all my blog content as their own! Copy and pasted every-single-mutha-fucking-post from atarumoroboshi.com and posted it. And leeching all my images to boot! What nerve, and talk about lazy, they kept my in line signature on all my posts.

Being the savvy individual I am, I gave this guy the benefit of the doubt. A quick whois turns up a newly registered domain this month to with the not-so-awesome GoDaddy and with hosting from a company called asmallorange (yeah, I haven’t heard of them either).

I sent him a nice email, asking him to remove the posts, and kindly asked him to not leech my images. I even politely suggested that maybe he was testing out his new blog and somehow “mistakenly” stole my posts and images. A week passed, and with no response, my patience wore thin.

Sadly, I had to modify my .htaccess file to prevent image leeching. (Sorry guys! I didn’t really want to.) Many thanks to Attack of the Gamer who had a quick and concise write up on how to modify the .htaccess file. I tried to re-direct the leechers to an image, but it seems I’m doing something wrong. Here it for giggles, maybe I’ll get it working later.

Anyway, while I can prevent him from stealing my bandwidth, this guy has also ripped of posts from Ani-One.com and the Hardcore Anime Podcast, and to date my content disingenuously sits on his site, sans my images.

NOTE: IF YOU ARE READING THIS POST ON ANY OTHER BLOG OTHER THEN WWW.ATARUMOROBOSHI.COM IT IS NOT AUTHORIZED BY ME (ATARU) THE CONTENT CREATOR

UPDATE: THIS POST HAS NOW BEEN SHAMELESSLY STOLEN AND POSTED.

UPDATE 2: AFTER THIS POST WAS SHAMELESSLY STOLEN AND POSTED, IT WAS THEN REMOVED - MY OTHER POSTS STILL REMAIN.

- Ataru

I’ve long had a love affair with the Tachikoma. Somewhere along the line, I named a file server ‘Tachikoma’, then my cell phone, then I had to get some wall scrolls. I knew I had gone too far when I received the Tachikoma Plushie as a gift.

But now I can hardly contain myself because I want this

Entirely useless, it plugs via USB into your computer (presumably PC only?) and comes with some software.

-Ataru

Wow, this came out of left field.

Geneon, one of the more acceptable U.S. anime distributors is cutting the rope on their sales and distribution as of tomorrow.

Short abridged version: ADV was going to take over U.S. sales and distribution on October 1, as a result Geneon laid of a portion of it’s staff and readied its U.S. offices to transition out of the distribution game. Last minute ADV pulled the plug, and as a result, Geneon is hurting and has stopped sales, marketing, and distribution for the moment.

Sorry to those that were planning on buying Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. And what of the fates of Shounen Onmyouji or the second season of Black Lagoon?

Way to go ADV. This is no good. No good at all.

Couldn’t this have happened to Viz or Tokyopop?

Update 1: Bandai Visual USA will distribute their titles, despite Geneon (their distributor) stopping distribution.

Torrance, Calif., September 26, 2007 – Bandai Visual USA, Inc. today announced that Bandai Visual USA will continue to release titles as scheduled after its distributor Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. ceases the distribution…

Direct link to PDF press release

-Ataru