Is streaming a show not accessible in my continent a sin?

[Inquiry]

A good faith effort means you really do the legwork to figure things out, not ask others to do the research for you. There is a company that owns the rights to DBZ in Europe. You need to make sure you know why they aren’t releasing it.

 

[Dug]

Well I’ve already asked around and searched and found nothing. If you’re willing to help I’d appreciate that but getting the VPN is no problem, makes no difference.

 

[Dug]

Hello, I just checked with a staff member of funimation and unfortunately using a VPN goes against their terms of service.
To be honest I don’t know what this may result to but I wouldn’t mind getting banned as long as I’ve paid the money I had to pay.
However if they take legal action that’s another story (I don’t know if they can though because I thought that a VPN was supposed to make you 100% safe)
At this point I think I’ll just wait till next summer and see how the situation changes.

 

[PHXsunsAZ]

I have the blu-ray set of dbz which I got on sale on amazon not long ago and I think it was worth it. I don’t know if the original DB is region specific but that is a good series too.

 

[White_Tree]

Hello, I just checked with a staff member of funimation and unfortunately using a VPN goes against their terms of service.
To be honest I don’t know what this may result to but I wouldn’t mind getting banned as long as I’ve paid the money I had to pay.
However if they take legal action that’s another story (I don’t know if they can though because I thought that a VPN was supposed to make you 100% safe)
At this point I think I’ll just wait till next summer and see how the situation changes.

Oh, sorry to hear that.

They probably need to have that as part of their terms of service to comply with their licensing agreements.

I think if they catch you, the most likely outcome is you will get banned from their platform (and they would keep your money). Legal action, while conceivably possible, is unlikely, but mainly because lawsuits are time consuming and expensive, and it’s usually not worth the hassle to sue a 15-year-old with no assets, especially if that 15-year-old is in another country, which adds to the hassle.

Though it’s incorrect to think the VPN protects you from that sort of thing. While they might not be able to trace you via your IP address, they would have a much more reliable way of tracing you, which is through your money. IP addresses can be hit or miss. Money is significantly easier to trace, and if you have an account with them, and you gave them money to pay for that account, they are going to know who you are.

(There are also ways to find out someone’s true IP address even if they are using a VPN, though those methods are mainly used by law enforcement agencies and hackers, not by regular corporations.)

 

[Dug]

Thank you so much again for the help!
If you’re interested in knowing what’s written in regard to VPNs in the terms of service here is what I found:

Service Use Restrictions. You agree that you will not:

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(vi) interfere with or circumvent any security feature (including any digital rights management mechanism, device or other content protection or access control measure) of the Service or any feature that restricts or enforces limitations on use of or access to the Service , the content, or the UGC;

I guess I’ll just wait a year and see, hopefully they’ll also get the licenses in Europe, otherwise I’ll just have to find another way.
Thanks again for your help and have a beautiful day.

 

[Anesti33]

No, I’ve never heard of it before. I’ll be sure to check it out though so thanks for telling me. However I’d still like to watch it, just because I found something else of interesting and wholesome doesn’t mean I want to let go of another thing I really care about.

Well, since you only have 24 hours in a given day, then you make a natural choice with your viewing hours to imbibe a childish show based on a pagan philosophy/religion vs. shows about the Catholic faith that are uplifting and true. It doesn’t seem like a difficult choice.

 

[Irishmom2]

Here’s the thing: the content creators have already been paid 30 years ago.

So you have said at least twice now. And so?

If there are still laws and copyrights in place, (and there must be or it would available everywhere,) then you have no right to it. People get paid through royalties every time the program is used, not just once 30 years ago. Artists, producers and corporations have a right to get paid for their work.

The fact that you love the show does not justify breaking the law when there are other ways to see it lawfully. You just don’t want to go that route.

Your posts are sprinkled throughout with comments about producers having been paid already, big corporations not needing the money, how much it would cost for you, blah, blah, blah.

The bottom line is, we can’t go around making justifications for doing things that are immoral and illegal, no matter how much we want certain things.