ahhh, the halcyon days of downloading Utada mp3s via dialup cuz no store outside of Japan, neither online nor brick mortar, even sold them.

and bragging about it on AIM!

I’m super ignorant about celebrities’ self-marketing but i thought Maher was a libertarian only pretending he wasn’t racist. he actually claimed to be on the leftish region of politics?

unfortunately websites can even use data transfers (without mentioning legitimate accounts/streams) to promote themselves to business partners and anime studios.

so pirating directly from their site is still helping them indirectly.

when crunchy first started, they streamed my fansub group’s work, my translations, without asking permission or crediting us.

they were never Batman/Bruce nor Harvey… not even as ethical as Two face…