Originally posted by: Ero-Fan
He would probably only get fined, because he is technically not charging anyone for the subs, he is charging for membership(which is not illegal). If he was charging per download, then it would be a worse crime.
I don't know if that true. Let's assume you founded a company like iTunes. You had a vast collection of songs, and if somebody paid you a monthly fee, he would be allowed to download for example 200 MB worth of music per month. Such a company could be viable. And I don't honestly see much difference to this pay monhtly for membership to get direct downloads of anime thing.