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I've used fansubs and scanlations for a long time, simply because they tend to be high quality, and allow things to be available for years before a professional does it (if at all). When it is available for legal purchase, I do that, but I end up still prefering the fan made copy. Too often the stories are butchered.
For instance, I was a fan of Bleach, but due to time constraints I've not really been able to watch it since 2008. I was checking on it earlier, and the US version of it is still about 50 episodes behind where I left off. The way the US airings happen, it'll probably be about 2 years before it catches up to where I last was able to watch.
As far as the comment that the fan groups are profit driven, well, I kind of find that funny. Many of the groups, while they may have ads on the site, still end up paying for most of it out of pocket. Operating a site that has high bandwidth usage is very expensive. Yeah, if they get a hundred or two hundred a year from ads, that seems like profit, but some people I know pay that a month for hosting fees.
There are profit driven groups, but generally they take someone else's work, and charge for it. I've even seen where they leech from other's servers, so they make the group who made it eat the bandwidth costs.
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