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Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update (fandomwire.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 38 points 11 months ago (3 children)

why not just pirate shit without a noble cause for once? You know - the old fashioned way

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

    Impossible.

    Piracy is always noble.

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  • [+] -7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    quiet.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    what are the good sources nowadays...been out of the game for awhile and it's to trust any sites promoted on any mainstreamish social networks.

    like freemediaheckyeah, old reddit hub...is that still good?

    ime every pirate source had 50/50 shot of turning into some virus/scam honeypot shortly after reaching high enough popularity

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

    I just bookmark the piracy megathread/wiki thingy, lemmy/reddit (backup). For streaming, I would probably recommend hydra, it's really all the same but that site has "auto-next" which I prefer. There was one site I used to enjoy that was just better than any streaming platform I've paid for, skip intro, skip credits (would even detect after credit scenes), subtitles in all languages and audio tracks even commentary, quick responsive high quality loading of any media your mind can remember. They went after it hard and I haven't seen a proper iteration since (every clone slowly lost features as they were whack-a-moling).

    For downloading, they're really all crappy (several link hoops to jump through) and hit or miss (for quality and selection you can't beat the ease of a torrent unfortunately). You can find what you want eventually but the difference in hassle is just crazy.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I mean, I basically just download anything that's not an executable. So if its a video, audio, pdf, epub, etc... I don't worry about it. Its very rare for an updated system to get infected from a random .mkv.

    I just use (https://fmhy.net/torrenting) one of the torrenting aggregators because its the most comprehensive search, I found an anime that I couldn't find anywhere else because there are dead torrents with no seeders everywhere else I looked.

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