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| It's debatable because although it may technically be a violation of copyright "the TRIPS agreement does not demand that distribution of copyrighted material is a criminal offence unless it is done on a commercial scale" |
You've already lost that game of semantics in the precedence established by the music recording industry and movie industry.
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| that the arguement it takes up bandwith is stupid, the fact that it doesn't hold any harm save that it may reduce sales if the anime is released in the States. |
On the contrary, it the direct corollary to your argument that one should not buy fansubbed material. The difference between the two lies only in the fact that the one who gets hurt in your preferred scenario is other, law-abiding citizens, while the ones who get hurt in the scenario you eschew are the pirates. Why such sociopathic distinctions?