The “Netflix of anime” piracy site abruptly shuts down, shocking users
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"Intensifying global crackdown on anime piracy" just happens to coincide with Sony raising the walls of its growing monopoly on anime distribution, sales, and streaming.
Fuck 'em.
Fuck 'em.
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Why does the article state the site shut down for unknown reasons but the caption under the hero image says "Disney+ promotional art for The Fable, an anime series that triggered Animeflix takedown notices"?
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Even more painfully ironic when Crunchyroll started out as exactly one of these sorts of piracy sites.
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Shinzakura
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This. Crunchyroll ultimately was just a group of villains with good publicity.
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Shocked? How is anyone shocked when I piracy site shuts down at this point?
Argue right or wrong for the actions, but this is how it’s been working for at least two decades now. Sign up for whatever the replacement is, and then sign up for the replacement for that.
I really don’t like the trend of articles quoting random commenters on Reddit/Twitter/Facebook/Ars and acting like it’s newsworthy: The shutting down of the site is newsworthy. Random people’s comments about being “shocked” by the inevitable is not newsworthy.
So ends my rant.
Argue right or wrong for the actions, but this is how it’s been working for at least two decades now. Sign up for whatever the replacement is, and then sign up for the replacement for that.
I really don’t like the trend of articles quoting random commenters on Reddit/Twitter/Facebook/Ars and acting like it’s newsworthy: The shutting down of the site is newsworthy. Random people’s comments about being “shocked” by the inevitable is not newsworthy.
So ends my rant.
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If I know anime fans, they love liberties with translation and poor jobs of it. Though I'll admit, Crunchyroll used some new service for adding captions to their dubs and thought the fact that they couldn't get a single proper noun right was intentional satire since I happened across it being added on a KonoSuba rewatch. "Megaman" charging explosions just seemed too on point... it was not.
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Most of the sites are iffy experience wise. I recommend using the built in search in qBittorrent. All the anime you could ever want without BS, of super high quality. Keep forever, watch whenever.
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I wonder how many out-of-print or unlicensed titles that were only available through piracy are now completely gone, unwatchable without extremely expensive secondhand DVDs or tapes. Fullmetal Alchemist was one, I think.
There really needs to be a better way to preserve art than relying on corps and/or relying on pirates.
There really needs to be a better way to preserve art than relying on corps and/or relying on pirates.
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This is one thing where I have some sympathy: when people want to do the right thing and watch shit legally but it's not available. So annoying.
There's stuff I've wanted to revisit from my childhood that I can't even pirate because it's so forgotten by time
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Cheer up, my friend. One day we'll get Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates in glorious 4K, I'm sure of it!This is one thing where I have some sympathy: when people want to do the right thing and watch shit legally but it's not available. So annoying.
There's stuff I've wanted to revisit from my childhood that I can't even pirate because it's so forgotten by time
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But what about The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage???‽!!111one
And Supercarrier!
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Holy living shit you're the first person in a long, long time to remember it too
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OH NO, they might have to wait weeks, if not months?!Ashley Belanger said:
Well, as it is, many shows are not even finished for broadcast and are only completed for disc release.
As google translate would say, "so terrible."Ashley Belanger said:
Not to worry. I'm certain that the AI will be well-versed in all the pop culture/video experience references needed to accurately translate subtle jokes or know when to substitute a localisation if the context would be too difficult to explain.Ashley Belanger said:
There are traditionally two groups of fans: ones who don't care wut da subbbs sez az longas its englsh-shapped and those who really want to know exactly what is being portrayed and are likely studying/wanting to study Japanese.
One problem is that for most media, if the first translation available is a speedsub (or in this case AI mangle-ation), that generally snuffs out any impetus for people to create an accurate version.
Also, if only one person referred to Animeflix as the "Netflix of anime," why does that sobriquet appear in the headline?
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I remember that series. I have 1-2 episodes on VHS, unless they were recorded over. >_>
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Calling a pirate site "the Netflix of anime" is very weird when Crunchyroll exists.
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A streaming site isn't "preservation", it's just a way to watch things online. If it can get taken down and anyone who used the site is left without anything, it wasn't "preserving" anything.
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I'm pretty sure Crunchyroll is the Netflix for anime. They're the ones bogarting the exclusive rights for a number of series.
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Oh my god I didn't even click the internet archive link I saw earlier, because I thought it couldn't be that easy. There goes my day
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because the role of disney and sony is not an acknowledged fact, but rather a suspicion of the community at large.
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I note that the MPA injunction linked to did not involve any anime (and since it was an MPA injunction, it couldn't have) and the only thing on it that was anime-related was an episode of Netflix' live action One Piece.
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¿Then why did not disney, or paramount, or netflix, or Max or any of the plethora of others did a a sony, bought them up and cleaned their act?
There must be a reason why sony took the risk with crunchyroll and the others did not with animeflix...
Sony had the vision, took the risk (of engaging with the pirate community) and reaped the reward.
The pirates at crunchyroll had the vision, took the risk (of talking to "the man", and risking arrest) and reaped the reward.
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AI translation vs fansub
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software working with the actual 100% correct script to do the translation vs fandom wetware using sound transducers to try to capture the script (but i guess sometimes the japanese closed captions are available) and then translate...
lets see who comes on top.
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Do you remember how zero fansubbers could understand the lyrics to that one part of the hit song *~Asterisk~?
Country Ma'am remembers.
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Fighting piracy always feels like 90% of a marketing failure (either not making available in a demanded market or pricing beyond what the market can tolerate) and 10% tilting at windmills trying to stop the people who will NEVER EVER give you money.
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