Piracy and animation have a fascinating relationship. Though Hollywood has waged war on piracy for decades, with claims that it costs theaters $1 billion per year , it has served an instrumental role in the rise in popularity of anime in the West. From the early days of VHS bootlegs that exposed a whole generation to movies like "Akira," to making inaccessible shows like "Neon Genesis Evangelion" suddenly available for the masses, to the early days of the internet when brand-new episodes of anime were translated and subtitled by fans who shared episodes online as soon as they finished airing in Japan, the medium would not be where it is today without piracy. Crunchyroll, the absolute biggest streaming platform specializing in anime, started out as a pirate site using fan-subbed uploads o

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