Spaniard there. We didn't need C+ for anime as local regions with languages distinct to Spanish got original DB and several more animes (Captain Tsubasa, easy choice for Europe), Doraemon et all.

In the 90's only the poshy people or university students (and OFC bars for soccer matches) could afford the monthly subscription. That was true until the mid-late 90's where cheap Avermedia TV tuners for PC (and Pentium MMX processors) could decode the nagravision streams for the cheap. And, yes, they mainly were used for porn and soccer matches, and some Hollywood blockbusters.

That died in from 2002/3 where cheap broadband was found everywhere and peple used P2P platforms like crazy.

Under GNU/Linux I remember XawTV-Nagra and Alevt for Teletext.

EDIT: it was XDtv, not XawTV. Good times, and often it was more interesting to decode stuff than actually watch it.