hear the justification manifesting in my mind. "It's for your readers. Just watch then delete. If you break your pace, they will stop reading." Again, it is so easy, much like running a red light or speeding. We all have our reasons and they make good sense to us, and the laws of the land be damned. Bottom line is that I'm choosing to pursue the legal route for my blog and will try to rise to the challenge of finding other topics to write about as I save my money to fill the gaps. Again, great blog and if reason doesn't convert someone, go for the guilt. The problem with anime is that American distributors have practiced censorship, bad translation and editing, lack of understanding of the Japanese culture and enthusiasts, and overall have provided an inferior product to what has already been released by fans. Fans who often work weeks on a single episode for free. American anime distributors overall have simply shot themselves in the foot from the get go. They didn't understand their target market and have suffered from it. Now, obviously piracy has had a huge impact on it, but if you can't produce a higher quality product than those of people doing stuff for free then you don't deserve to be successful. Just to add some points to those of the Australian commentator above, I'm in New Zealand and have seen weird things with rights to comic books and some anime here. Since NZ