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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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[+] UltraBlack@lemmy.world -6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (4 children)

Bro why is everything from israel now bad??

Israeli companies have fuck all to do with the government's decisions

[–] sulgoth@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

By definition of their country they're supporting their government, through taxes if nothing else.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I get that, but it's not like it's optional to pay taxes.

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The point is more: Crunchyroll chooses to pay the sub company (Israeli based) to provide them with a service. The company pays taxes to the Israeli government. So the flow of money becomes:

Subscriber pays Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll pays sub company

Sub company pays taxes to Israeli government

If I don't want my dollars to go towards the Israeli government even in a small scale, I don't pay Crunchyroll.

As one person, it isn't much, but multiply that by a million subs and now you're sending a message

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Until their government stops murdering people, Israel needs to be pressured as a whole. Their citizens need to be fed up with it and put a stop to their government, and boycotting them helps.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm not 100% on board with @sulgoth@lemmy.world because it gives off some "but you participate in society, interesting" vibes. However, as an American I am all for people from the rest of the world boycotting our products (and this time not because of the health implications!). When Canadians were promoting non-american alternatives I agreed with them so I think we can say fuck companies and still stand with the actual individual people who want peace and everyone to prosper respectfully.

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

What a weird thing to say when we are watching a genocide live feed every day fucking think bro lol