something that more people should realize is that we're here because the dvd licensing companies and japanese tv stations haven't been irritated enough by us to make a concerted effort to make us cease to exist, or at least to make our lives a lot more uncomfortable and our existences a lot more demanding of anonymity. We operate in the open because Bandai and ADV and Geneon and TV Tokyo suffer us to do so.

I'd rather see have bandai sell me dvds than prosecute me. I think they share the same sentiment.

As a fansubber, there's always a small element of paranoid expectation ... when are the dvd companies finally going to turn and bite us, and how hard? For you as a leecher, it's not a big deal... you're their target audience anyway, if you've got 20 bucks to blow. And if you don't, no big loss. They're never going to pull an RIAA and decide that they want to sue you for downloading. But it's always possible that they can turn around and target us, and I'd really rather not see it happen. Blatantly disregarding the wishes of the copyright owner doesn't seem like the logical path to not pissing them off, you know? That's precisely why we don't do bandai and adv stuff. They told us not to, so we don't.