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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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[-] theredknight@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-07-31/spotifys-ceo-owns-an-ai-weapons-company-some-musicians-say-its-time-to-leave

[-] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 0 points 2 months ago

I'd cancel it in a heartbeat but my wife would murder me.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 months ago

Buying music on Bandcamp and similar has been good for me. When I got laid off I kept all the music I owned and didn't have to pay anymore. All these subscription services suck.

[-] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 0 points 2 months ago

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 2 months 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.

[-] mzesumzira@leminal.space 1 points 2 months ago

You could try moving to Tidal or Qobuz, they treat their artists better and there are tools to transfer playlists

[-] utopiah@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Honest question, did you try self-hosted music?

Few weeks ago I thought this was a joke but... there is a TON of stuff out there already.

From the "rough"

to having mobile apps

  • navidrome (with updates via lidarr)

to minimalist

to federated

to handling discovery

... there is just so much out there!

[-] utopiah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Edit: since I wrote this message (15min ago) I setup LMS thanks to podman and shared it via ngrok and my wife can listen to my music on her phone instantly.

So... yeah it's that quick and convenient.

Is it perfect, definitely not, but it's also very quick to get started and to reconsider.

[-] biotin7@sopuli.xyz -1 points 2 months ago

Get a divorce

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