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Sep 22, 2016 7:05 AM
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I'm moving soon to UK and I wanna know if anything can happen to me if I download anime just for my entertainment and not sell it , like from kissanime or a site like that , cause my salary won't let me buy everything I wanna watch , can anything happen to me?
Sep 22, 2016 7:09 AM
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It is wrong to download anime from sites like Kissanime, but I don't think anything can happen to you... I think. Isn't downloading anime the same thing as downloading music and movies illegally? Sure it's wrong, but no one will do a thing about it.

I don't live in the UK, but never had any problem illegally downloading anything ever before
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Sep 22, 2016 7:10 AM
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INU4SH4 said:
It is wrong to download anime from sites like Kissanime, but I don't think anything can happen to you... I think. Isn't downloading anime the same thing as downloading music and movies illegally? Sure it's wrong, but no one will do a thing about it.

I don't live in the UK, but never had any problem illegally downloading anything ever before

I know it's wrong but most of us can't afford buying even if we wanted to , but we still love anime so we can't help it, I live in Romania and most of us barely live... it's a sad world
Sep 22, 2016 7:16 AM
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The only anime I've ever heard of people even getting those angry copyright letters for downloading are Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, and Gintama. Most shows won't get you in any trouble though, especially older stuff or anything on BakaBT.
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Sep 22, 2016 7:16 AM
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No problem buddy wasn't criticizing you because I do the same. I used to own a Crunchyroll subscription, but right now I'm saving money. And normally I watch a lot of anime on my phone while on the bus. I have no internet connection there, so I download anime. I know it's wrong but I have no other option :/
If you really can't afford to pay for anime, just download it then, nothing will happen to you I'm sure. Money shouldn't stop from enjoying anime
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Sep 22, 2016 7:18 AM
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Ha join me as a filthy immigrant living in the UK

OT; As far as I know they can but for the most part I don't think they do, just watch it online instead I think it's safer
Sep 22, 2016 7:20 AM
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Darekmhn1 said:
Ha join me as a filthy immigrant living in the UK

OT; As far as I know they can but for the most part I don't think they do, just watch it online instead I think it's safer

Not immigrant , migrant it's the good term in my case , I don't wanna live permanently in the UK but I really need money for starting something in my country
Sep 22, 2016 7:23 AM
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obviously not
you could even sell it and im sure no one will care(/buy it) lol
Sep 22, 2016 7:24 AM
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L3gEnDaRy said:
Darekmhn1 said:
Ha join me as a filthy immigrant living in the UK

OT; As far as I know they can but for the most part I don't think they do, just watch it online instead I think it's safer

Not immigrant , migrant it's the good term in my case , I don't wanna live permanently in the UK but I really need money for starting something in my country

Details, details

You are going to be filthy migrant then, filthy nonetheless, lol
Sep 22, 2016 7:25 AM
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L3gEnDaRy said:
Darekmhn1 said:
Ha join me as a filthy immigrant living in the UK

OT; As far as I know they can but for the most part I don't think they do, just watch it online instead I think it's safer

Not immigrant , migrant it's the good term in my case , I don't wanna live permanently in the UK but I really need money for starting something in my country


Good luck, the UK at the moment is not a nice place for migrants. I'm british but most people here are very anti migrants- I am not one of them so I welcome you :)

By the by, I use the sites in question myself and by my favourites. Manga is a different story but for anime those sites are just the best option. Could you imagine if you had to buy every single series you watched o.O.... I would be in so much debt
Sep 22, 2016 7:25 AM

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Darekmhn1 said:
L3gEnDaRy said:

Not immigrant , migrant it's the good term in my case , I don't wanna live permanently in the UK but I really need money for starting something in my country

Details, details

You are going to be filthy migrant then, filthy nonetheless, lol

Details ,details
You're a filthy racist
Sep 22, 2016 7:27 AM
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L3gEnDaRy said:
Darekmhn1 said:

Details, details

You are going to be filthy migrant then, filthy nonetheless, lol

Details ,details
You're a filthy racist


Lol, how? I am an immigrant as well, I just like to use this phrase as a joke, no need to get butthurt, mate
Sep 22, 2016 7:27 AM

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Pirating anime is not okay but we still do. Same goes for many other things so we can do at least one favor for the best anime(s) and buy something related to this. If you get what I mean to say.
dont't watch that anime if you are going to give it 1* and cry 10000 words in review about it.
Sep 22, 2016 7:28 AM

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Darekmhn1 said:
L3gEnDaRy said:

Details ,details
You're a filthy racist


Lol, how? I am an immigrant as well, I just like to use this phrase as a joke, no need to get butthurt, mate

I'm joking too , lol , I knew that already
Sep 22, 2016 7:29 AM

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i've been doing it since i was 10 years old

and i've never been caught so

yeah
Sep 22, 2016 7:29 AM

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YeAhx said:
Pirating anime is not okay but we still do. Same goes for many other things so we can do at least one favor for the best anime(s) and buy something related to this. If you get what I mean to say.

I would buy JoJo's cause it's my favorite anime and manga
Sep 22, 2016 7:31 AM

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I used to own a Crunchyroll subscription. It's now very good here in EU because of the region restirictions, they you need a VPN and 90% of the free ones offer you only 500mb free monthly, wich is like 4-5 episodes watched on 720p quality. You would need to pay Crunchyroll 7€ and a nice premium unlimited VPN wich would cost about 5€. That's 12€ per month and that's expensive for a college student like me. And for a lot of other people as well, that's the price of a subscription to a TV provider.
Once when Crunchyroll puts out enough anime for all the regions so you wont use a VPN then 7€ would be acceptable.
For now I use Kissanime to stream and torrent stuff I wanna watch offline. I don't think torrent will get you in trouble.



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Sep 22, 2016 7:31 AM

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I don't think anything would happen. I prefer to torrent though, if I want anime on my computer. Crunchyroll is not that expensive, but not everything is available in the EU unless you set up a VPN.

Either way, the most that can happen legally is that they charge you the price of the bought product, because they "assume that you didn't know it was illegal". That's how it works in Belgium at least, but I don't think that intellectual property law works differently in the UK. The fine for torrenting would be higher though, since you do redistribute.

If the anime doesn't have a legal localisation, I don't think they can do anything to you.
Sep 22, 2016 7:32 AM
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L3gEnDaRy said:
Darekmhn1 said:


Lol, how? I am an immigrant as well, I just like to use this phrase as a joke, no need to get butthurt, mate

I'm joking too , lol , I knew that already


Fuck, how did I not realise? fuck I think I am not good enough yet, I look like an idiot now, do I?

Also good luck living in the UK, the immigrants tend to be more judgemental and bigoted towards you than locals at least from my experience
Sep 22, 2016 7:38 AM

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L3gEnDaRy said:
YeAhx said:
Pirating anime is not okay but we still do. Same goes for many other things so we can do at least one favor for the best anime(s) and buy something related to this. If you get what I mean to say.

I would buy JoJo's cause it's my favorite anime and manga
That's exactly what we need in this weeb society :)
Don't be afraid to buy it because the money eventually goes to the author and production company.
dont't watch that anime if you are going to give it 1* and cry 10000 words in review about it.
Sep 22, 2016 9:15 AM
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Nothing happens. Your ISP isn't stupid enough to waste their time looking through your logs to check if you download anime.
Oct 1, 2016 7:24 AM

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Oct 1, 2016 12:00 PM

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no one is going to care in europe if you download anime. Maybey in USA if even there. In europe it´s only hollywood and other movies from USA that going to try bust your ass so hard they can.

No one care about anime here, we are dorks and nerds that watch cartoon lolis. So no one will care.

if you count out all the moral in this :P
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L3gEnDaRy said:
I'm moving soon to UK and I wanna know if anything can happen to me if I download anime just for my entertainment and not sell it , like from kissanime or a site like that , cause my salary won't let me buy everything I wanna watch , can anything happen to me?


Well, you are doing something that violates copyright laws pretty much everywhere, so if you are caught there is always a chance you can be arrested, jailed and/or fined large amounts of money, no matter how small that chance may be.
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Oct 1, 2016 12:08 PM

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I download a bit in UK of kissanime nothing happens i download everytging illegally and im fine.
Who cares if its wrong everyone does it anyway.

Oct 1, 2016 12:09 PM

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I have never ever heard or read about someone in europe that has goten a fine of huge money or jail for torrent anime. American movies are quite common. More money in those company to hunt you down.
Oct 1, 2016 12:20 PM

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Yea you'll be fine. I've never heard of anyone getting in trouble for downloading anime/music/movies.

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