When it's a student saying he had to pirate books to study or a poor kid who pirated a Nintendo game, the law and the Buttlicks always condemn them. But if it's Elon or Mark doing something similar, it's all good and everything is fine! If there's one thing that fiction and reality have in common, it's that rich people can do almost anything without consequences.

Good for you but I'm of the opinion that public domain nowadays is a bad joke of the cursed capitalist world we live in, if I wait to see something modern "for free" I'll be 150 years old and I won't even be able to see that Oppenheimer movie because of that stupid 95 year period of time... seriously, if the waiting period were 15/20 years I would make a genuine effort not to pirate but as I said above the public domain law is a joke and will continue to be...

Thank God we have torrents, but what makes me most sad about this is that many of these sites have unique catalogs that torrents don't have or that you can never get seeds from... being honest, I would 100% migrate to torrent if it didn't have this small big problem.

"It will also utilize image recognition to detect unauthorized use of manga and anime materials provided by publishers" If this somehow backfires and sites like CBR or TheGame fall victim to this, it will be very funny! but I hope this AI fails miserably!

How far will they go in order to monopolize everything? I know we always have "spare heads" for sites that are victim to these bastards but I fear a possible future dystopia where piracy is almost scarce or extinct.

all i can say is this is a very sad news and of course FUCK YOU MPA!!!! and a special fuck to Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, because they site stinks like cryptocurrency, fraud and corruption, I hope that one day hackers invade this site and can destroy it as much as they can as a form of revenge!

Without seeds, torrents become almost useless, and many pirate sites offer rare and hard-to-find movies/animes whose torrent versions never download because their seeds are practically extinct forever. So I don't think this is a weak complaint. If torrents didn't have this weakness I would always choose to use them but...

The research is from Duck Go Go as most people have already said but I appreciate your comment offending Google. More people should do this nowadays!

Which is a shame, it's sad to know what one of the biggest and best piracy sites in the past has become today

It is and always will be, this is one of the few "modern phrases" that I never tire of hearing because it is still real and relevant today. But unfortunately, as long as megacorporations are whatever they are and people have this "capitalist" fear of piracy, things will not change and will only tend to get worse!

As I said in a previous post, people are afraid of pirating, so they prefer higher prices if it is a "safe" method.

Any news like this always hurts as much as being hit by a truck, but the ones about anime sites being taken down are the ones that make me the saddest. I will always hate the monopoly that Crunchyroll has established and I'm afraid that one day it will "win" and that all the other sites will end up having the same fate. Why is piracy involving anime is the one that suffers the most?