Legal/Illegal anime

The Straits Times
Downloaded pirated anime?
Starhub ordered to disclose your identity

The Singapore distributor of popular Japanese animated cartoons called anime has won the right to track down StarHub subscribers who downloaded the programmes illegally from the Internet.
A Subdorinate Court ordered StarHub recently to disclose the identity of what The Straits Times understands are one thousand subscribers identified as having downloaded pirated anime.
StarHub has resisted the company's efforts to get its customer data, but the court ruled that Odex had "satisfied the court of their need for the information".



I am not going to go on the rant of why this is wrong blah blah blah, cause it'll be dumb and I'll probably kill myself more in the process...
But a thought just popped into my mind and I feel like sharing it out...

First question, who are the people who creates the anime?
Its those artists and screenwriters and whatever that are mostly based in Japan. (I'm assuming that they are based there) Notice that it is these group of people that do most of the hardwork of drawing, coming up with ideas on how the series should progress and how to create interest among the audience so that their anime can be a sucessful one.

Second question, who are the people that are earning the most money from this?
It turns out that most of the revenue that is earned isn't exactly supporting the original creative group of people whoa re working on the anime. Most of the revenue is earned rather by the publishing companies. You know you always see on some websites that we should buy this buy that so as to support the original singers and whatsoever, but when it comes down to it, how much really goes back to the singer? More of it would go to the publishing company right?

Third question, who are the people going after those law cases whatsoever?
It turns out that it is also the publisher's too. Just wanted to point out an irony that I see:
The people who creates the anime originally isn't the publisher, however, when their works are being copied, it isn't the original group of people being furious, but rather by some company who has brought the work, done the exact same thing of copying it and then distributing it to the people...

So what does it mean? Don't you find it weird, that it is some company that is doing the same thing as what a lot of people out there are doing, but for the company it is legal, but for the others it is illegal? Especially when the money doesn't really go back to those poor creative people doing all the hardwork...

Also, just a bit of sidenote:
From what I know, apparently, downloading anime isn't illegal as long as
a) No company in your country has license it (ie. use money so that they can do the exact same thing as those people who download anime)
b) You do not charge anyone for downloading it as those animes are usually free fansubs.

Sounds ironical that all it does is a bit money for some thing to become illegal when it originally isn't?
Just some thoughts that I have in my brain over this issue...

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