>>1485789>safe as nyaa is for anime?Your statement has some huge assumptions about western media copyright enforcement being the same as anime media copyright enforcement. The companies involved have totally different purposes for their visual media.
Western media companies make a lot of money from selling the visual media product. That profit goes to pay the investors and key staff that took a substantial amount of their pay as a share of the gross profits from media sales. But for Japanese anime, the companies make almost all their not from media sales but from streaming (TV, cable, overseas streaming) with the vast majority coming from merchandise and licensing sales. In that sense, the video is "given away" as a promotional tool to drive merchandise sales and sales of tie-in licenses. The merchandisers and licensors basically want the video to be widespread in a positive way to generate buzz and publicity. This makes the number of eyeballs larger and the buzz about the media greater.
Once in a rare while, an anime is created and needs its media to actually sell a lot. This was illustrated at one time when the anime torrent site BoxTorrents (now known as BakaBT) received communication from Bandai Sunrise to take just one niche anime title down to prevent reverse import. Obviously, the site had the other Bandai Sunrise visual properties being torrented, but they were not mentioned in the polite letter requesting that one title be protected from torrent downloads.
