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Originally Posted by MMM
I hope I am not blowing your mind when I say that the download of fansubs of unlicensed materials is illegal as well. This is covered in the Berne Convention, and almost every country in the world, including of West agreed. Basically it means that international copyrights are respected the same way as domestic copyrights. So no, they don't "get to" preview it. It is still illegal and is still stealing from someone who created something without paying for it. The only difference is the victim is in another country, so you are less likely to get caught.
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In this case, I don't really see it as that much of a problem,
especially if the episode aired say, Saturday night, and it's up to watch Sunday night with subs. Is it no different than watching it live due to how close it is? Isn't it pretty much the same as taping it and watching it later? Can't the subs act as basic closed-captioning?
I've been watching Dragon Ball Kai lately. Not downloads, though, just a live-stream when it's already airing, so for me, that's about 8:00 pm EST, Saturday night. What if I waited a day to watch it with subs because I didn't feel like keeping up with a raw for a certain episode. Would you still consider this a bad thing?