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Originally Posted by MMM
I wonder why anime fans think they should be subject to different rules than everyone else. Movies come out in Japan sometimes much later than in the US. It's called "anticipation" and fans patiently wait for the big movies to finally hit theaters. The same is true for popular TV shows, like Heroes and Lost. "I can't wait" is not a viable excuse for distributers not to stop people from exploiting their licenses.
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That is assuming every single viewing of a series' episodes equates to a lost sale, which is empirically incorrect. Having said that, I will come clean and say I do watch fansubbed series online and enjoy the convenience.
Do not, however, automatically tar and feather me because I do so. I wouldn't have known about The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya without watching the series online. I even have the first DVD in the series and am seriously considering ordering the boxset so I can watch it on my computer or DVD player more legitimately. I also have the first five Bleach discs, first two Negima?! discs and a few other oneshot anime discs as well.
Animation companies taking a hand in trying to keep their IP's off the internet by pressuring sites to pull uploaded episodes is doing a lot to make buying the actual DVDs a more attractive option. It's getting to be quite an arduous process finding new uploads of series I am following, and even the enjoyment of this illegal activity is becoming dimmer because of that uncertainty.
In closing, illegal streaming and uploading of copyrighted anime isn't going to go away soon, if ever. But I am one person who is starting to see the light and logic of actually buying the series I watch so I can enjoy them whenever I want without difficulty.