So it all depends on who has rights for the things you download and if they have connections to your country and will ask for these rights to be enforced.Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
For example in France:
If you download anime, there's a very limited chance there's someone who has the liscence... even more when you dl a fansub that was aired a week ago for the first time.
If someone has the liscence, the thing is that if you didn't dl that sub in french language, there's another limitation... because the liscence should be searched in the original country: ie japan too.
Another point is that anime has been ostracized in France as almost evil material years ago, which I can understand when you have "hokuto no ken" aired in time slots for toddlers to preteens... So authorities almost do not care
Also the ones having the rights are very small companies that most of the time didn't actually buy the rights themselves and sell products with awful quality fansubs, or abysmal dubs, awful video quality, late by 5 or ten years... So they are even more in illegality than you'd be...
Fortunately I have no interrest for:
Movies, Music, TV shows and all of these things that have strong majors behind that can sue anywhere on the globe... But even there, streaming is a very good option since we start getting very good quality streaming.
All in all, I try to stay very low under the radar, but one can't be 100% sure, hence my search
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