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Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update (fandomwire.com)
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Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).

Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.

EDIT: Link was taken down thanks to someone in the comments here's the archive for the page https://web.archive.org/web/20251004184506/https://fandomwire.com/crunchyroll-faces-cancelation-why-anime-fans-are-choosing-piracy-after-latest-update/

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[–] 58 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm doing my part!

My renewal was literally tomorrow too. As these streaming services get worse, I keep on cancelling. Been two years for Prime (literally smashed cancel the day ads were announced) and all i've got left at this point is netflix and spotify.

Netflix pricing almost has me there.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I'd cancel it in a heartbeat but my wife would murder me.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Buying music on Bandcamp and similar has been good for me. When I got laid off I kept all the music I owned and didn't have to pay anymore. All these subscription services suck.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm never, ever buying digital licenses to video or audio content. My limit is games because avoiding it is kind of impossible.

    Too many platforms close down. I've lost licenses from the Impulse acquisition and subsequent shutdown, plus one or two others. Any day these guys can just put up a 30 day notice and rip everything out of your library. Usually this happens after an acquisition... looks like bandcamp was sold in 2023 and the buyers shitcanned half the staff too.

    Disks are cheap and piracy works until they enforce digital IDs for all connectivity on the internet. At that point we'd be back to swapping thumb drives.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Honest question, did you try self-hosted music?

    Few weeks ago I thought this was a joke but... there is a TON of stuff out there already.

    From the "rough"

    to having mobile apps

    • navidrome (with updates via lidarr)

    to minimalist

    to federated

    to handling discovery

    ... there is just so much out there!

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Edit: since I wrote this message (15min ago) I setup LMS thanks to podman and shared it via ngrok and my wife can listen to my music on her phone instantly.

    So... yeah it's that quick and convenient.

    Is it perfect, definitely not, but it's also very quick to get started and to reconsider.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Spent another 5min to scp the container and ~/Music on my RPi5, which I keep on 24/7, has a 512Go microSD and tailscale... and I guess that's it, I have my own music server. I don't have discovery on though but still, already useful!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Another update on that front, I added on my RPi5 :

    • yt-dlp which I use with its -x audio only option on RSS feeds from DJs
    • tested then added that to nightly crontab to get updates
    • configured LMS for hourly database scan
    • tone in order to update tags on files and try to organize my ~/Music directory

    So it's still nowhere near as good as the music streaming service I used so far BUT it's getting there!

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    what is tone? curious on how you set up the rss feed ingest as well if you would be open to sharing.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    tone

    this one https://github.com/sandreas/tone "tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac"

    regarding RSS feed I just download them regularly, e.g on crontab one can add 0 3 * * * cd ~/Music && ~/bin/yt-dlp -x https://hearditherefirst.blog/category/dubstep/feed/ but if you need something a bit more refine with filtering consider e.g. jc --xml withjq and `wget.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    I was recently turned on to Stremio + Torrentio and it’s very good. I’m considering making a Pi5 device dedicated to it.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Netflix has been enshityfying and on the capitalist death spiral for YEARS, cancel that shit and spend your money on a VPN and some hard drives...

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I've been paying for a VPN for over a decade and I am up to about 20TB of used disks. Make of that what you will.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Your setup isn't modern enough and you still find convenience in paying for Netflix?

    I don't know what else to make of it...

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Not far off. Most of what i've setup originates from a plex lifetime sub. Maintenance is completely trivial.

    Every time I hear about the next thing I think about modernizing which then requires standing up something new. New shit requires a new virtual host and completely new setups of many things. Then training my wife and others on how to utilize the new tech, and then praying it doesn't just break tomorrow from The Establishment in some way.

    Plex is one of the very few solutions that works with minimal sideloading and fuckery. My instructions for someone to start using it are "download the app, check your email for an account link, and enjoy." I would not recommend any newcomers to go with Plex though, because it's definitely not a modern solution.

    I've tried jellyfin, I put substantial time into trying to get it to work but it had substantial issues with subtitles which are mandatory for us unfortunately. I figure any new solution is going to also have substantial challenges in some way as there is no standardized or simple deployment of absolutely anything.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    I've tried jellyfin, I put substantial time into trying to get it to work but it had substantial issues with subtitles which are mandatory for us unfortunately. I figure any new solution is going to also have substantial challenges in some way as there is no standardized or simple deployment of absolutely anything.

    Yeah, I have Jellyfin running alongside Plex, (luckily, they happily run side-by-side with the same library), but I consistently find myself using Plex instead. I want to like Jellyfin. I want it to succeed. And Jellyfin is like 80% of the way there… But that remaining 20% is a real sticking point, and I almost always end up falling back to Plex after trying (and getting frustrated with) Jellyfin.

    It’s an unpopular opinion on Lemmy because of the FOSS mentality, but Jellyfin simply isn’t mature enough to fully replace Plex in many peoples’ setups. Especially when you consider the whole “getting friends and family to convert” side of things, where Plex handily beats Jellyfin in regards to account and app setup; I can walk my mother-in-law through setting up Plex, but Jellyfin adds a whole new level to the equation when she would need to sideload the app onto her TV.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Agreed wholeheartedly.

    I built out bluefin as a panacea to issues I had with subtitles on a set of media on my plex server and it couldn't even give me subtitles.

    I hear a lot of rave reviews for Kodi, but that's serverless so now I need to open up storage or setup a vpn server and isolate a vlan... and how in the everliving fuck am I going to explain configuring this? Oh, and that needs sideloading too and if I go with a vlan now they need to figure out how to connect their device to a VPN. That's a nightmare.

    Sure, I can setup Kodi at home on my TV device and leave plex as is but i'm no closer to a server based transcoding solution. That sucks.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I use plex also because I have a lifetime sub. Totally agree.

    Switch from VMS to docker. Use NAS to keep the media, and store your compose stacks somewhere backed up, then all you need is one host with docker/podman and a repeatable configuration driven deployment. Start adding apps with compose files, no new host setups, no significant resource needs.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Netflix makes dope original productions in my experience; I've watched many of their shows and enjoyed them.

    It's not wrong to give money to studios that produce good content. What's important IMO is that the money really goes to the studios, and not to some big banks trying to leech off it.

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