QUOTE The School Rumble Project Chair, Ohmer, stated in his brief press holding this afternoon that he feels that there is still ample ethical grounds in which WF can continue fansubbing School Rumble. "We have tried our best to help promote School Rumble and create an environment for fans who do not understand Japanese to convene. We have never asked for a dime, but instead just the understanding of the publishers that we mean no harm," he stated. He reinforced the fact that WF's target audience is completely distinct and separate from those of the Japanese firm, and thus does not cause a conflict of interest. MusashiKen, Manager of Quality Control at WF hinted the same idea, "School Rumble is aired for free on Japanese public TV. We are simply reproducing it for an English-speaking audience."
The founder of WannabeFansubs was not available for comment during press time, however, WannabeFansubs.net domain owner and webmaster Bantam claims, "They have no legal grounds whatsoever as far as the website is concerned. The tracker is run by a third party and is not directly affiliated with WannabeFansubs.net." So far no legal claims have been filed concerning torrent links on the website.
Further investigations also reveal that the reason why the Tokyo lawfirm had originally sent AnimeSuki.com and LunarAnime the letters of warning, was because a particular affilliate company was displeased with "Akane Maniax" being available on fansub before DVD. They found no mention of "School Rumble" in particular. WF thus finds this incident to be furthermore, possibly irrelevant to its current operations. Therefore WF will exercise indifference until there is solid evidence that Media Factory has the correct/relevant legal claim, and displays a conclusive will to shutdown WF's School Rumble works.
-WF Associate Press in conjuction with WF Investigative unit
Thursday December 9, 2004.
The above passage(s) was quoted by one of the WannabeFansub staff members.
Good news is that:
QUOTE WannabeFansubs will follow suit and continue to fansub School Rumble as per the usual routine. WF has and will continue to provide through its members' hard work and devotion free fansubs to School Rumble fans until further notice.
So SR will still be fansubbed by WF