What the hell is that thumbnail?
Three large heads with purple hoodies laughing with their large mouths at a fearful little man with Crunchyroll and Funimation logos side to side overlaying the man’s head
Most average article thumbnail of the modern age
Laughing? More like yelling.
For smart people, piracy is a financial problem.
Why pay more for things you can get for free? It’s not like the businesses you’re supporting wouldn’t rob you blind if they thought they could get away with it.
Even the ‘creators’ don’t get the vast majority of the money you spend; their landlords do. When they make more money, rent goes up.
I wish this generation wasn’t full of useful idiots with more money than sense.
Download.
An jus as one piece is kicking off not only it’s final saga but more of its successful live action. The Great Pirate Era is really upon us!
Exactly. It’s time to take back your data and OWN YOUR SHIT people. Local Host and Mass Store.
Also backup
Local and off-site. (Not cloud)
No backup? No mercy!
This is why I never bought a subscription to these services.
i got suckered once on a different site that got shut down. never again.
Subscription is pretty different from buying. Pretty disingenuous to try to talk about them the same way. There’s no expectation of keeping access when you end a subscription.
I see patreon subscriptions all the time where you can subscribe, download all the content, and not subscribe again the next month.
I fail to see why just because it’s a big corporation that the expectation is different.
Magnet link ? And maybe physical address of their head office, for sending them pre-paid pizzas as thank yous ?
just use Aniyomi with the Yomiroll or Aniwave plugin
Aniyomi also supports jellyfin)
If anyone has this stuff it would be good to add them to i2p too.
so they’re going to refund all the people that purchased this stuff, right?
I’m pretty sure it all goes to Crunchyroll. I don’t think you’re actually losing anything, just having it moved to a different platform
(edit): Nevermind, I didn’t know digitally redeemed blu-rays and stuff were a thing. You’ll lose those if you have em but tbh I can’t imagine very many people do.
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We need to stop calling it “purchasing”
Long term rental or at-will ownership for US people.
We need to prosecute companies (and their executives, personally) who fraudulently misrepresent it as “purchasing.”
If paying for digital content isn’t ownership, then downloading it for free isn’t piracy.
I think in legal terms it’s even called licensing.
Buying a digital copy of something you cannot download is an oxymoron. It only makes sense if you subscribe to a service.
So steam, basically? Less likely that they’ll be shutting down anytime soon, but still.
Not a good comparison. With Steam, you download the games to your computer. If Valve ever went out of business, they could unDRM the games, or you could crack them.
Either way, you download the games onto your computer. That’s not the case with Funimation.
That’s why it’s better to buy from gog
Why? You also buy licenses from GOG, despite their and their shills’ best efforts to make you believe otherwise.
It’s completely DRM free. You download the game and that’s it, you can run it from your computer forever
The only difference with Steam is that you have to crack the game files, and Steam DRM is notably easy to bypass. Either way, once you have the files you have it.
Is it? I should look into that
Whether its “allowed” or not, I assume you I own every file from my steam library.
Very hard to convince people to buy things “legitimately” and have any trust in any of the “legit” options when they just go away so fucking easily. Stuff like anime has been a real weird example of both how horrible the corps on the Japanese side just squeeze every single fraction of a penny from stuff (fucking like two eps of a show on a modern DVD or even Blu-ray). But also feel zero reason to expand options in the first place. They were so fucking slow to get digital or streaming options. Same goes for the foreign outlets that get rights outside of J-land, but I am sure they were more likely to want to combat piracy via stuff like streaming. Funny thing about anime piracy is that it is literally the reason so many shows and movies were even seen and is the main reason so many people got into all of it. Back in the early 00’s when I made friends with people that had cable internet and ready to burn as many eps as they could fit on a CD-R and later DVD-/+R.
It was just so amazing to see all these shows that weren’t just completely altered by lazy US companies or ever likely to be translated. No US companies thought that Americans would ever understand or get into this weird Japanese stuff and not put money into it. But they sure started caring when torrents got going and the numbers were growing. One thing that has really pissed me off with legal digital copies of anime comes down to how it is still behind on basic shit. We have had multi-audio/subtitles on pirate copies and even on legitimate physical discs. But the legal versions of digital copies still have to be either bought in sub or dub. It is a slap in the face of fans to have to buy two different copies just to have multi-audio in Japanese and English. I thought that shit would have been left behind with VHS.
All of these companies demand our money and often charge prices that are just too high for their target audiences (especially teens that don’t have jobs like so many of us have lived through). And yet they seem to do everything possible to make the options for purchase so much less usable compared to pirate versions. I would take a fansub that might be a bit off but has actual passion for community and accessibility over legit copies every single time. But I am also more than happy to pay for things if I don’t keep being treated like I already stole it and should be grateful for being “allowed” to pay for it. I would love to pay for these things and know that the actual workers are able to live, and not just so overworked and not able to afford rent. But the entire media industry treats both the workers and the customers so fucking bad. They are making things worse for themselves by showing how we can’t trust our purchases to even be around from one day to another. So why shouldn’t we just take it and know that we will have it?
Given how lots of smaller shows and other things will never get re-prints or re-masters on modern media. It is also our jobs to preserve these things that the companies feel aren’t worth the money to do so if they aren’t. If I ever have kids, I would like to be able to know I can show them my favorites. Looks like I will also need to show them how to sail the digital seas and that “legit” options should always be treated as liars that steal your money AND take away what you paid for.
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No US companies thought that Americans would ever understand or get into this weird Japanese stuff
I miss the subtitled “translator notes” about cultural things. US companies just change the meaning of things if there’s no easy equivalent.
Gintama has some of the funnier versions of those notes. Can be annoying if you don’t care as they take it to 11 covering most of the screen to explain a reference to a bank scandal in the 90s or other very specific stuff. Cracks me up with the level of care about making sure you are aware of something used in a quick joke that might not really matter. Such a nice way to see and know random info on Japanese slang words and phrases in the context of a moment.
Buttplug for your thoughts ～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆
Any tools to rip stuff from Funimation?
Maybe this way folks will preserve it.
Just download it from nyaa like a normal person.
I don’t think there’s anything on funimation that hasn’t already been ripped and posted on nyaa or private trackers.
Unless it’s some really old or obscure stuff.
Apparently yt-dlp has code to work with Funimation, that might work (i can’t check if it does)
Made a post out of it in piracy@lemmy.ml, mind if I credit you? People should know, this info can be genuinely helpful
No but I also don’t think it’s worth mentioning me lol
You’ve mentioned an important thing that has already generated a lot of engagement (28 comments) and likes (270) under the post in a community with average, like, 10 comments and 30 likes, meaning it might be helpful to many here on Lemmy :)
Great!
You’ll own nothing and be happy
funny, i dont feel too happy
They’re charging people higher prices and refusing to allow them to keep their digital content? They’re basically just handing out the pirate hats and eye patches at this point.
