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Originally Posted by DryFire
So ETG admins were ok with people distroing fansubs but not tv shows?
Copyright infringement doesn't change with intent...
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It does change with jurisdiction though. If I run an IRC server that's located in the US, I face domestic lawsuits only from copyright violation of the works of local US companies. In the case at hand the Japanese would have had to file basically an international complaint, it's a lot more difficult and there are complex treaties involved.
depending on where you are in the world, your actions can be considered different levels of criminality, and the same could be said with copyright violation. Intent is not what the reason was, it was feasibility of culpability.