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

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• Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Japan lost approximately US$30 billion to anime and manga piracy

  How are you sure that all people who have watched through piracy would have bought it? Maybe they would sell even less without the hype generated by piracy watchers talking about the show…

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  • DeadDigger@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • e0qdk@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They want recurring revenue

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  • Nori@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty sure every pirate stream = 1 bd purchase

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    • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      RIAA math

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• emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have they considered actually making the content available to stream legitimately on platforms that aren’t dogsh*t? Japan does this with everything. Music is still mostly physical and streaming support especially for older catalogues is poor. Godzilla minus one was out of theatres for a full year before anything resembling a physical release was made available. The biggest thing hurting growth here is gatekeeping.

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  • Unboxious@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And even if I shell out for a blu-ray they won’t let me conveniently watch the blu-ray on my laptop or phone. We really need a new standard.

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    • Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We’re still struggling to get past the access/license phase like it’s the early days of decss and i can’t legally play my physical media because i run an alternative os.

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Alternative title: US taxpayers protect US billionaires in third world countries.

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