I know it's a terrible horrible necropost (well not really considering it's stickied) but what about when legit DVDs are only bootleg quality? For example, I bring your attention to the Australian release of the X TV series. It was co-licensed by Siren. the quality of the DVDs themselves (that is, the actual disc material) is distressingly low on the first 3 or 4 DVDs (you can see and feel a funny "lattice" pattern on the label), there are no special features, the menus look like they were put together in Photoshop, the episode summaries on the back of the case are wrong, the chapters are arranged as 1 chapter = 1 episode, so you can't skip the intros/outros, the subtitles on the first 3 discs have no backing colour and they're bright yellow, which makes them impossible to read in many scenes, there are extra quotation marks on the sentences (I saw one with 8 quotation marks on a sentence once), the subtitles are pretty much poorly done, they run off the screen alot of the time, and the crowning disappointment of the DVDs is this:
DVD 6 of the series has 5 episodes on it. And it's a DVD-5. This simply DOES NOT LOOK GOOD. there are macroblocks, glitching, and other ugliness that is just a disappointment.
Oh, and as for people making you pay for fansubs when they shouldn't, I know a group over here who do that, and I'd love to see them be formally dissolved for breaking the law. Heres the site.
Brisbane Anime Society
It's a local anime society that is a social negative. It's a bad place, take it from me.