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A new CD will hopefully sell millions of copies at 15 dollars a pop, so people don't feel like they are stealing when they download music, as Mariah Carey and Miley Cyrus are obviously rich.

You can't hold manga and anime to that same standard.

If a new CD sells 1,000,000 copies, manga publishers are hoping to sell 10% of that number (10,000) copies of a manga. Some sell more, most sell less.

So every fan that steals a copy online instead of buying has a much greater impact on the publisher.

America's biggest manga publisher, TokyoPop had only 100 employees...and they cut 40 of them last week.

When you steal manga and anime, you aren't stealing from the rich, only from dedicated fans who want to bring manga and anime to as many people possible.