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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.

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 70 points 4 hours ago (12 children)

Just canceled. Thanks.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 30 points 4 hours ago (11 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.

[–] theredknight@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (5 children)
[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] mzesumzira@leminal.space 6 points 2 hours ago

You could try moving to Tidal or Qobuz, they treat their artists better and there are tools to transfer playlists

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 hours ago

Get a divorce

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