shirasho

All valid comments.

I would love to buy merch from the stuff I like, but it simply isn’t affordable to pack my room with models and posters like you can do in Japan. I wouldn’t mind the low quality stuff if it is cheaper.

Box sets are definitely the way to go, if the series you have your eyes on is fortunate enough to get one.

It also doesn’t help that Japan cares very little about foreign markets. Anime merch is still wildly overpriced outside of Japan. I’m not paying $60 USD for a 1 inch tall figurine, and $13 USD per Manga book is hardly sustainable.

Some people need synopsis reviews to fully understand what they watched. I use them all the time for things I have watched. If you make these things illegal, I will simply not consume your content anymore. There are plenty of other forms of entertainment to spend my money on.

Two notes about piracy that these Neanderthals keep failing to understand. If somebody pirates your content they likely weren’t going to pay for it anyway, and if somebody reads a synopsis they either weren’t going to consume your content or they already have and want to know more.

Piracy is a service problem. People pirate because you are not providing something they need. Instead of punishing people for being human, you should try and figure out what you are not providing and fix that instead.

With that said, the real point of the lawsuit is that the site operator profited with ads. That is a separate discussion.