Original sentence: In recent years, anime fansubbers have started to attract the attention of some American anime distributors, but as of yet most of this attention has been restricted to polite entreaties asking fan translators to refrain from dealing with licensed material.The Berne Convention does not explicitly prohibit parallel importation.There have never been any legal cases involving fan translation issues, and, as is the case with translations of manga, such projects have been relatively widespread over the Internet for years.This belief, while untested in court, is probably not supported by international copyright law, but this strong anti-software piracy attitude by the fan translation community may have convinced copyright holders to, by and large, turn a blind eye
Edited sentence: According to Yu's Behind the Scenes of IRC, there have been beliefs that "there is a gap between people's opinion and what is written in the law.Article 8 of the Berne Convention, or international copyright law, may be controversial for the fan translation community and the emulation community, and it has been believed by some gamers to have unintended chilling effects on free speech, and that it only serves to force the audience to learn the language that the games in question were marketed in, thus unintentionally making more potential translators.As for manga, there was never a need for a test case, since manga fan translations have been published on the Internet for years.Fan translations are mainly done for Japan-only games that were developed for the Japanese versions of game systems that were discontinued in the United States.However this belief has no support in international copyright law (probably because for video games, the translation can be played only through emulation or via similarly dodgy copier devices), but it seems plausible that the strong anti-piracy stance the fan translation community has taken has contributed to the tendency of copyright holders to turn a blind eye.Japanese companies are unlikely to sue the fans, especially for animes, and fan translations of animes have been around a long time.The Bern Convention does not explicitly prohibit parallel importation.There have never been any legal cases involving fan translation issues