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Originally Posted by mindovermatter
I don't really see why people keep pointing out that the announcement was made for Japanese people about filesharing anime in Japan.
from my experience, the whole fansubbers code of no longer distributing once it's licensed is long dead (and I've seen blogs and interviews to back that up). So what's really the difference between a Japanese person dwnloading anime or a foreigner downloading an anime that's already been dubbed? The producers, VAs, translators, etc all still lose money.
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The thing is the R1 industry is not the anime industry. They have nothing do to with creating anime or manga, rather they just distribute it to a foreign market. It's not really clear how much of the money paid to these distributors finds it's way back to the Japanese companies, and even more importantly, the creators of the works. Thus, Japanese fans who can pour money directly into the industry are more important when talking about things like a mangaka being able to continue producing manga.