[Nyororin]

Burkhartdesu, I think you`ve honestly missed the whole point.

It`s not whether people download illegal things so much as people who ONLY download these things, and who do so continually without making any real effort to purchase most of it.
Like the downloading anime fan who will pick up full series after full series after full series without really thinking about buying it... All the while making up excuses about "Well, it isn`t released yet" or "Well, I can`t afford it anyway" etc

I personally could care less (and I`m going to make a guess that MMM likely feels the same way) if someone illegally downloads a few eps and judges a series for purchase. Or even downloads the whole thing and then buys all the DVDs as they come out. But we all know that isn`t what happens 99.999% of the time. And that is where there is a problem. People think that they should be entitled to anything they want if it can be gotten without too much effort.