Literacy practices in affinity spaces of the fandom are diverse, including fanfiction, fanzine, fanart, fandubbing,
fansubbing, scanlation, or fan translation of games.
Likewise, Joanna Drugan's discussion of the relevance of professional codes of ethics within new contexts of "non-professionally produced translation" only considers Wikipedia alongside fifteen other community projects such as Global Voices, Ubuntu, and D-Addicts
Fansubbing Forum.
Chapter 7 turns its focus to norms, one of the most important challenges posed by
fansubbing. In this chapter, the author provides a general summary of studies in this field and challenges to subtitling norms.
For now,
fansubbing groups have been announcing alternative means of downloading fansubbed content.
While this might be initially difficult, MAGP was able to gather a large number of media professionals for their project, and other professionals have expressed support for
fansubbing and other fan works in the past, so it is a viable option.
See generally Sean Kirkpatrick, Like Holding a Bird: What the Prevalence of
Fansubbing can Teach us about the use of Strategic Selective Copyright Enforcement, 21 Temp.
En cuanto a la practica comunmente asociada al termino
fansubbing, es decir, la SAAJ, si bien su origen se remonta a la decada de los ochenta, con la tecnologia VHS, su verdadera masificacion se dio junto con la expansion de Internet.
Fansubbing often expresses a legitimate desire to champion a particular title, if not the art form itself.
Cosplayers are making costumes, book readers are writing and sharing fictions, gamers are making mods and machinima, manga readers are producing "amateur" manga or scanlations, and anime viewers are
fansubbing, making and posting animations.
For the scope and interest of this paper,
fansubbing, romhacking and scanlations can be regarded as the three most relevant and influential types of "collaborative translation" which exist today.
Sean Leonard's studies of English-speaking fans who translate and distribute Japanese anime reveals that such
fansubbing groups routinely discontinue distribution of a translated anime series when a Japanese copyright owner announces that its own English translation will soon be marketed.