Comment on 'More Than 400 Piracy Domains Completely Wiped': Top 10 Anime Streaming Sites Targeted in New U.S. Government Report

Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• DeadDigger@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Without piracy it would have never gotten this big in the first place

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• e0qdk@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They would probably make more money if they’d just put the shows up for sale for direct download as soon as they air.

  Seriously, it’s 2026 for fucks sake. Why can’t I just go to the studio’s website and pay them a dollar (or whatever) to download an MP4?! I can understand the old conservative idiots running old studios with old stupid practices, but why is NO ONE doing this? Especially as studios keep going out of business and reforming? Have they never seen Steam and GOG for game sales? Bandcamp for music?

  …rant rant rant…

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  • Unboxious@ani.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Okay but if they did that the episodes would all be on pirate sites day one, unlike right now where they don’t do that and the episodes are all on pirate sites day one anyways.

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  • mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They want recurring revenue

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    • eli@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Zero revenue is still zero revenue.

      I’ll just keep downloading my anime then and they’ll still get zero money from me.

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• Nori@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They didn’t even make an effort to get most of the shows published in the west. Publishers always have to take it out of their hands and I doubt they’ll stop doing that because someone already pirated it. But even if they did, Anime studios only have themselves to blame. There’s no piracy problem, just a consumer experience problem.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This still reads as people feeling they have the right to these products.

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    • Nori@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If they didn’t really wanted to sell it to people pirating it then nothing was lost.

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      • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You still don’t have the right to other people’s labor.

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    • eli@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Some may, I do not. If I can’t watch anime then…I’ll just go and consume some other type of media. Video games, movies, tv shows, YouTube…

      It’s not my problem that these studios don’t want my money. Why do I have to jump through hoops to spend money? Or there’s zero avenue to buy/stream these shows legally since they’re not available on XYZ service.

      Why do these companies think they’re entitled to my money when they haven’t even tried taking it?

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    • mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That may be the case. I’m more certain the companies act like they have the right to their customer’s money.

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• Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pretty sure every pirate stream = 1 bd purchase

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    RIAA math

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