Utaban - 2000.11.09

Old Utaban for your viewing pleasure! (and a pleasure it is.)

Summary

It's their second appearance in Utaban promoting Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi. No Nakai/Ohno fights :( but there's already bullying going around. XD

We have found the streaming vids and already started flagging them. We would like to extend this flagging event to the whole community. We also noticed that episode 7 was streamed on the same day as our released day, and we know for sure the culprit is within the community *waves at the traitor*. Unfortunately, until the traitor shows him/herself, we might need to slow down the releases for the rest of the episodes. We apologized for the inconvenience caused, but we believe that for the time being, our main priority is to take down the streamed vids and ensure that the same case wont happen again for ep8, 9 and 10 releases. [Edit] As of 17 December 2009, only the videos on Ning.com remains streamed. We're still figuring out how to deal with this &*%$^*^* site (pardon the symbols) but we would like to thank each and everyone of you for our collective efforts in combating streamed My Girl videos. We have taken down 3 streaming sites, and that's a huge achievement for all of us! Thank you very much *bows* [/edit]

We noticed that My Girl episode 6 released by AST has been seen streamed on a drama streaming site. We believe that this has breached our rule of no distribution out of AST communities. With no luck getting that episode off streaming, we will be making slight changes in regards to My Girl future releases.

Starting from episode 7, all releases of My Girl will be made available only for AST livejournal community members. Membership as of now is being moderated. My Girl releases from Vox and Wordpress will be halted until further notice.

We are still in discussion on how to prevent such events from happening again in the future. We like to keep the way we've been releasing our stuff, so we hope that we wont have to go to the extreme.

Apart from My Girl releases, other AST projects (All the Best, Challenge Week, Himitsu no Arashi-chan, etc) will continue to be released normally.

Thoughts and concerns, please drop us a comment or two here!

EDIT:
1. We did not announce which drama streaming site because we do not want them to make more money just by people visiting the site.

2. We might have found the origin of the streamed vids. Once we have confirmed this, we will let everyone know ^^