As you may or may not know, Narutofan's recieved alot of attention from the anime community, both good and bad. Tazmo's been notorious for putting up manga releases without the consent of scanlation groups (at one point inane even put up "NARUTOFAN DOES NOT HAVE OUR CONSENT TO DISTRIBUTE" all over their releases). I've also heard that tazmo would take steps towards shutting down other similiar Naruto community sites. But this topic isn't about all that. It's about exploitation for profit.

http://www.narutofan.com/index...ent-main,2006%20budget

According to this article, Narutofan.com costs $32000 a year to function. Wow...that's insane....
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, he's even started posting the withdrawal statements from his account to show that this is accurate. What's misleading, however, is the assumption that all the overhead is compensated by donations. This is wrong. It doesn't take 15 servers to host torrents, a few OST mp3s, and the Naruto manga. It just doesn't. What 90% of these servers are likely being used for is direct downloads of anime for the Plus! members.

A plus membership is $3.50 per month at Narutofan. That's $42 a year.
How many plus members does it take to reach $32k? 762 members.

While it doesn't state anywhere how many plus members they have, it IS known that the total number of members is over 900,000.

If only 0.08% of the members are plus members, then that will be enough to offset costs.
If 1% of the members are plus members, then tazmo's making over $300k a year...a 17yr old making six figures for offering fansubs released for free by DB and AONE.

In short. Don't send a dime of your money to tazmo, whether it be donations, memberships, or otherwise.