Quote Originally Posted by Sapphire View Post
How is it justified? Just because it's a law doesn't mean it deserves to be followed. Anime downloading laws are unreasonable and virtually unenforceable. This leads to people inconsistently being "caught" and probably serves as a deterrence to no one except the guy who ends up having to pay the fine. (And he probably won't stop illegally downloading, will just make more efforts not to get caught).

If Funimation wants to make money they should figure out how to work competitively while still making a profit in the current times, instead of just suing everyone and their mom.
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I agree they need to figure out how to make it work competitively while still making a profit. IMO if they streamed it at like 720p at the time they release now, they would pretty much shutdown One Piece subbing, in North America at least. Maybe offer direct downloads with ads encoded into the video for people who can't stream? IDK.

But are you really going to argue that Funimation isn't justified in defending their IP rights? "Just because its law doesn't mean it should be followed"? That pretty dangerous thinking lol (plus you would probably only apply that selectively to laws that you choose not to follow). If something is easy to steal, I guess that means there should be no laws against thievery?

You said it. Funimation only has the rights to One Piece on North America. Yet they tried to shut down access to fansubs (and failed horribly) to all the planet when they begun streaming. Now they are starting a witch hunt within their own country.
They tried to shut down access to fansubs to "all the planet" because those fansubbers were illegally distributing their content in their region. Are they supposed to just turn a blind eye to it or something?

I'll say again that I download fansubs, and I'm not condemning anyone for doing it themselves. I just think its crazy for people to act like they are the bad guys when they are the ones allegedly being harmed by fansubs distributing in their region.