Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: the most part, pirated. Pirates would purchase videos in Japan, and duplicate, many times even cheaply subtitle them in English, and sell them in the US, without paying for the rights to duplicate the titles. Back then, legal anime redistributors had to charge about $35.00 per tape to make back the cost of the rights, making a pirated copy a cheaper purchase. But now, as the demand for anime has increased in the US over the past few years, they are able to lower their prices to normal video costs (around $19.95). This, along with the better quality seen on professionally duplicated videos is squeezing out a lot of the pirates. Another benefit of the growing popularity of an me
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