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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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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I would very much like a streaming service that makes it transparent what it actually spends its income on.

Like - a streaming service where i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the studios/artists that actually produce the anime? I would take that.

But right now i'm worried that i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the shareholders of the streaming provider as "profit" while the studio gets almost nothing.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah... sweet summer child you might not want to read Chokepoint Capitalism. It's closer to 99% for BigContent lawyers and right holders and less than 1% for actual creators.

[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lol, I'm sure it's a good book and Cory Doctorow is well renowned, but I can't help but think: "Defeat Chokepoint Capitalism by buying our book right now!"

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

Cory Doctorow's works are almost always free to download, just a physical copy costs money.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

And ironically enough even though most book by Doctorow might be DRM-free, maybe this one is, I can't remember.

If you want I give you a free TL;DR: it's not just monopolies, it's also monopsies. When we feel trapped by buying with Amazon we often forget that authors often have the same feeling. So the "chokepoint" is not 1-sided but 2-sided.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Get thee to The Pirate Bay and send your direct donations on the side.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

where would i send them to?