I agree with all on you said, I just wanted to give some insight into the pirating because I have used streaming websites to watch anime and I have a friend who does torrents/Pirate Bay for his anime. I’m not saying this is anime exclusive, but when you have a show/book out of print for so long, and decide to watch it, and see you might have to paying prices like $180 dollars for a complete set of Paranoia Agent (With the box it’s going for $300 on EBay), as an example (Was trying to post screenshot, but CC isn’t letting me), there are some cheaper options right now on EBay, but that’s because Paranoia Agent is finally getting a Blu-Ray, it’s been out of print for like I wanna say 5 to 8 years. Another example is how Monster, an amazing anime, was only released on DVD with 15 episodes (Out of 76 in total, so we in the USA are missing a big chunk on DVD) and is currently not on any streaming platform, as far as I’m aware for USA.
Not saying I am okay with piracy, as most people should be able to afford the $7 to sign up for crunchyroll or similar prices for any other anime streaming websites, but if it’s something that will probably never get a English release or has been out of print for such a long time, I don’t see anything wrong with using streaming websites. Granted this is a very minor thing, and probably doesn’t effect everyone, I just thought it might be interest some people to see how piracy might actually have a situation where it’s the only way to watch a show/read a manga. I make sure nowadays to buy what I want to watch more than using random streaming websites for my anime, but I will not judge those that do. I think they can cough up $7 a month for Crunchyroll like I mentioned, but from what I know, Crunchyroll isn’t supported everywhere around the world yet, as America has some shows that Europe doesn’t have access to. Oh yeah, I just remembered while typing, Crunchyroll and Funiamtion had a partnership, and shared shows between their streaming websites/apps, but once the partnership ended, all the Funiamtion shows were removed off of Crunchy, so that’s something to consider too, streaming platforms can change their lineup whenever they have to.