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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/

https://bsky.app/profile/lamhfada.bsky.social/post/3m2c3udxnjc2u

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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

people they’ve given no other choice or recourse

I don't know, I find I also have the option to not consume media that I can't pay for or justify ethically. For instance, the only streaming service we have a subscription for is The Criterion Channel.

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

    I'm looking for an ethical anime streaming service rn, and i'd be willing to pay for it (like, $10/month). Any options at all?

    Like, "ethical" means that the money is used to keep the studio running that is producing the anime; not that the money goes to some big banks to profit off anime.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Even if you make good money, it is still ethically questionable to support predatory practices and financially reward the objectively evil. Piracy is ethically neutral at worst and can easily be interpreted as a net positive, at least where it comes to most media. I deliberately choose to support some obscure stuff with my dollar because I want its creators to succeed and my conscience is clean.

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