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Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update (fandomwire.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

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[–] kiagam@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The end goal was always to deprive us of alternatives

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

There’s always torrents but it was very convenient to just go to crunchy and start something… torrenting and putting it in plex and all… it’s just less convenient

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

They took our comments and reviews, now they're ruining subtitles, are delayed, etc. The arr stack is starting to be just as convenient if not more.

Lord Gaben said it best, piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem (the people who couldn't afford it weren't going to buy it anyway).

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

You’re right about comments and reviews… I miss some of that. You’re also right quoting the old Gaben. But still… it seems we can’t keep any nice things for long :-/

[–] aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

Look into setting up an -arr stack. Overseer with radar/sonaar plus your torrent client of choice and a VPN. The setup takes a weekend at most and the final product is honestly easier to use then navigating shitty streaming services now. It actually is more convenient after just a little bit of setup.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Usenet is great also downloads very quickly. Just automate the whole process.

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I was doing usenet more than 10yrs ago… not that straightforward, needs a subscription anyway… and the whole NAS + plex or something similar is still needed. I get the idea but there’s a point in life where 10€ per month for the ease of use is very appealing.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

I pay around 2 to 3 dollars a month, I bought lifetime index subscriptions.