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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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[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 18 hours ago

I only buy drm free music and then back it up somewhere myself. Bandcamp at least is drm free, but who knows if they'll turn to shit after being bought and sold.