who wants hellfire?

[FoxBat]

My core values on piracy seem to loosely match those of those who are active with animie sub/dub work.

The american anime DVD and ultimately TV industry exists... because of fansub piracy. Before there was any of this commerical stuff, there was only fansubs. Some DVD people saw the demand, looked at which fansubs were most popular, and started mass-producing them for sale. This then led to the idea of a fansubber as one who raises enough recognition for a work to get licensed. The Japanese companies know this, and that's partly why they don't try and stop the people at home from recording and circulating the material. To this day American companies still (somewhat) look at popular fansubs for licensing material. A form of piracy built and continues to build a supposedly legitimate industry.

And Jarulf would be in jail.

With legality, location is everything. Jarulf's country isn't as anal about reverse engineering as the U.S. (Exactly someone else's point about the narrow U.S. Centric thinking. Software Piracy isn't even illegal in China, intellectual property belongs to "the people" there.)