Freaking Laws #1

Welcome to the first Freaking Laws. Although I don't currently have any plans for any more, there's a good chance in the future something will screw me over and make me want to do another one (also hopefully I can come up with a catchier name, preferably one that makes a cool acronym).
Before I get to my vaguely formed idea, here's some background. Whenever I want to find a new anime series or two, I follow a little procedure:

-Visit TV Tropes
-Look at Noteworthy Anime
-Pick interesting sounding names
-Read brief summaries
-Judge!
-Find torrents
-Download
-???
-PROFIT!

Unfortunately there sometimes is either a lack of torrents or a lack of people actually using the torrents. While this sometimes is caused by age or obscurity, more frequently this problem is caused by...LICENSING!

You see non-commenting readers, when an American company buys a license to an anime series/movie they can (legally) tell everyone sharing fan subs to GTFO. All the little fansites naturally do so, leaving only the faceless torrent archive sites to lift the burden (brave faceless souls). So if the fan sub is complete and there's enough demand for it, the torrent will survive despite illegality.

Tonight I proceeded to have none of that luck and found that the show I was after was currently impossible for me to obtain (within reason). Lame.

Then, a glimmer of hope, faintly shining in that way that only hope and dim lighting does. I noticed that the company that bought the license were streaming the series. Adequate.

This was not to be however, as the earlier paragraphs have hinted (wait, have I done this joke before?). Because I was not located in America I was not allowed to watch the stream because it wasn't licensed to Australia. I'll just let that sink in.
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Due to licensing I can't download the show because it's licensed to America, but I can't watch it either because it isn't licensed to Australia. So basically American laws directly effect the English-speaking part of the internet. Freaking laws.