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How is this possible? If they were really illegal, wouldn the original companies sue them for copyright infringement and shut them down?

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How is this possible? If they were really illegal, wouldn the original companies sue them for copyright infringement and shut them down?

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No. Because Japanese anime producers historically haven’t cared much about markets outside of Japan, and western anime licensors are mostly independent companies without the legal resources of the giant movie cartels, so there is an abundance of unlicensed illegal anime CDs and DVDs available.