Voice Acting Alliance

The Voice Acting Alliance (also known as the VAA) is an online website devoted to the craft of amateur voice acting and projects. Originally created by Azure, the reins of control were turned over to administrators; graphic designer TamTu Bui and Nikki Wright. The website was created from templates from vBulletin and has since acquired approximately 12,990 members as of June 2009.
Prominence
The Voice Acting Alliance has been known as a jumping off point for those interested in the business of voice acting and features several members who have gone into the anime industry, including Kira Buckland, Cristina Valenzuela, Lucien Dodge, and Julie Rei Goldstein.
As the website gained notoriety, professional voice actors who had already established themselves in the industry, including Kyle Hebert and the late Bradley Lavelle, joined the Alliance, and it soon became one of the most popular websites for anime voice acting and fandubs.
Controversy
The Voice Acting Alliance has been at the center of legal controversy involving many members of their community re-dubbing work from popular anime (both licensed and unlicensed in the United States) including, but not ending with, Naruto, Mermaid Melody, and FullMetal Alchemist. Members generally use the websites YouTube and Putfile to display their works, but if the content is seen as blatant copyright infringement, the work in question is taken down, either by the poster of the work at the request of the website, or without warning by the web administrators themselves.
On the forums of the Voice Acting Alliance, the topic has been discussed by many members of the community, with a majority of the members agreeing that fan dubs are illegal, although the decision is far from unanimous amongst the website.
The Voice Acting Alliance has maintained that they are only a forum board and do not condone the creation of fansubs and fandubs.
Other
In 2006, an article for the website Spoof.com, written by Ron Kieser, mocks the Voice Acting Alliance, with the headline "Amateur Voice Acting Pandemic!".
In 2008, the Voice Acting Alliance began working in conjunction with Echo Fiction, a subsidiary of Dreamseed, LLC, run by audio producer Xander Davis.

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