Fansubs... right or wrong??

In the U.S the only way for anime fans to enjoy their favorite anime shows is to download them off the internet, or wait until someone posts it up, in one of the many video sharing websites. These animes are made by fans of the anime, and are said to be for fans of anime. But the fansubs are illegal, and more and more anime is starting to disappear from the video sharing websites. So what then does the anime fan do? Does he wait for the anime to be licensed in the U.S or in other countries? The wait might take long, and even then the anime might be degraded by the transition to American audiences. Some people don't like dubs and prefer subs, stating that dubs ruin the true expressions of characters, ruin what they really say, and sometimes change the plot too much.

And what about the other countries that have millions of anime fans, Mexico, China, Latin America, South America, The U.K. Australia, and these are just off the top of my head, there are anime fans in thousands of cities around the world. The only places that get lucky to have an anime come to their country are a few, the rest either watch it in English or try and download it. Its hard to say what should be done, in one side you have the anime companies that say that fansubbing is wrong, and that their company loses money, and on the other side are the fans that want to watch anime, but they don't live in Japan, or can't speak the language. Is it possible for Japanese companies to try and work with the large fansubbing groups around the world? Try and reach and agreement, maybe let the fansub group put out subbed anime but not download? There are many ways that anime can come to the U.S and also reach further places without being dubbed. Just recently Crunchyroll, a website that hosts anime, and more began to air GONZO anime legally, two anime series made their debut in the website, with English subtitles. This is sort of an experiment I suppose for GONZO, and we have yet to see if it pays off, but regardless of the outcome, it is obvious that it can be possible to follow GONZO's example, right? I can't imagine what it would be like for bigger anime companies to follow GONZO's example.

Its hard to call fansuber supporters of piracy, since they're not making any sort of profit from it, well I can't speak for them all, but most subbers charge no money for their downloads. I don't see how anime companies can't think of ways to connect with these fansubbing groups, in a way that both sides win. I believe most fans of anime are from foreign nations, thousands of miles from Japan, so why not try and reach out, and provide them with the anime they love, instead of seeing this effort to spread recognition of anime throughout the world as against the law, why not see it as an opportunity to act! Act now before it gets worse, act now and its possible to profit from it, not lose.