Why do people pirate?

   In his article, Six Faces of Piracy, Shadow Economies of Cinema, Lobato states that “six different philosophical positions on copyright infringement: piracy as theft, free enterprise free speech, authorship, resistance and access” in the present digital era. Today, I would like to talk about piracy as access. In the article, he mentions that piracy can be the only way to access information and know other cultures. Moreover, as a result, pirate networks “provide the material routes for an alternative technological modernity, generating new forms of media access, emergent social practice and possibilities of change.” In short, through piracy networks, a way is born for people to get information and for society to change.

   For example, anime is becoming one of the worldwide cultures. Japanese anime is translated in foreign languages and loved by foreign countries. In addition, lately, even a lot of amine events are held in the world. For example, Anime Expo (United States) and AnimasiC (Germany). However, an article, why anime fanspirate the shows they love, mentions that being able to watch anime is not enough for anime foreign fans and piracy as access is a problem not only in the third world. According to the article, anime fans who live in America watch their favorite anime by doing piracy not because they don’t want to spend money, but they don’t have good ways to access it except illegal sites doing piracy. Because the companies' translations are not good. 

   In short, piracy is the only way people can understand what the anime creator intended and Japanese culture. In other words, companies that run anime sites don’t understand real fans’ needs. That is why they need to find a way to suit users’ needs, not just try to regulate piracy. By doing so, piracy would decrease and anime fans could enjoy more. In addition, as a result, anime culture will spread more. It is important to find ways in which both people who have copyrights and users would benefit.