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Originally Posted by OmegaEclipse

The legitament ones would have left them up. I will not, under any circumstances pay for subs, and until someone pointed me to their free streaming service I was operating under the assumption that they were another greed driven corporation only interested in money.

It's not the subs that are the problem; but the video itself. That costs money to make and stealing it is illegal and wrong. The only reason fansub groups make it available is that it's impossible to watch it in English (or other local languages) any other way. As soon as that is not the case, it is only right to take it down.

As a person who has worked on fansubs, I can say, that we WANT official DVDs with subs to be available. Fansubs are a lot of work, with no pay. We only do it because we love Toku and want people to enjoy it. NOT so that people can steal content.

And expecting to get paid for your work is not "greed." The company paid for the rights and paid their workers to prepart the subs, do a lot of other work, etc. Paying them is the right thing and to do.

And by using the streaming service, you ARE paying for them. You are watching ads and they collect money from the ads to pay for the shows. They still aren't free.

Besides, this whole discussion is moot anyway. As someone else pointed out, there were not, as I am aware of, any complete fansubs avaiable anyway. The official subs are the only complete subs aside from those hong kong ones.