Originally posted by: Mixairian
Find me the line where I did so and quote it. I'll apologize and rescind the last comment.
The best argument you have provided is your fear for the anime community. I find this as a viable risk because withou NarutoFan, I'd never have been able to download the manga. I wouldn't even know where to look. On top of this, his site is one of the first sites I go to get my Naruto news. I'm not the only person that his site has helped for free. It would be ridiculous to think that I would be in the minority considering how popular and well his site is doing.
Here you associate yourself with the audience that relies on Narutofan, while part of my argument was that the people that didn't have other means to obtain naruto media were causing the problems with offsetting the target demographic.

They're still people too. There are two approaches you can take. You can chastize people for what they don't know or you can educate them on their ignorance and fix the issue. I feel it poor tact to attack the target audience without trying to educate them first.
Are you saying....teach them how to use IRC/bittorrent, or teach them the value of product support? If a person that happily goes to suncoast every week to purchase the latest anime dvd is educated about a method of obtaining anime for free, then that would be bad for business. I say let the ignorant remain ignorant. Nobody's loss.

I'll also take this time to point out my own personal ideals when it comes to illegally obtaining movies/shows/games/etc. I believe in this policy:
If you'd rather not watch/play it at all than to pay for its market value, then downloading it is nobody's loss.
If the only means for me to watch Naruto was to buy the dvds, then I wouldn't watch Naruto. Not because I don't like it, but I refuse to spend $30x(170/4) on it. Trigun I liked, and bought all the dvds. Most movies I own are legitimate. All my xbox games are downloaded (I wouldn't even own an xbox at all if it wasn't for the mod capability). However, I cannot count on others to follow the same line of rationale.

You caught me there. I'd have to make an ammendment to my stance that covers the idea of when it involves risk to the health or well being to the customer. As for my bias or non-bias. I don't care if Tazmo cheats the hell out of people, not completely, but I believe I did mention somewhere along the line I do enjoy arguing. I know you have no way to know those but every now and again on forums I play devil's advocate to get people to stand up for their points or in some cases, create better arguments.

The issue of his business practices. If all this is true, I think the guy is a dick but I don't see him destorying any lives. Not to mention, a donation is completely up to the individual.
So if the "make-a-wish" foundation jar at the local 7-11 went towards the cashier's binge drinking habits instead of to misfortunate children, then you'd be ok with that, because it's not a health risk?