The Japs will take a dump on you and call you 割れ物 if you download media without paying for it. They have their own way of thinking about it and don't care what baka gaijin think. Of course they also download stuff, anime torrents are filled with Japanese IPs, but on the surface they take it seriously. It may sound absurd not to download stuff in the west but it's one of the reasons Japan has such a strong media and doujin industry. Maybe the west wouldn't be so vapid and depraved if it started buying media. It's hard to motivate people to pay for things when they live in a "multicultural" kleptocracy.