"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2024
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They can't take my hard drives...
The hell they can't
Lmao imagining Funimation execs browsing Lemmy looking for who to doxx
"GardenVarietyAnxiety implied that they have pirated content! Find their address and send an agent!"
Some poorly paid intern spends twenty hours combing through their Lemmy account, cross referencing information with other social media accounts with similar names, until they narrow GVA down to one person, send someone to take their hard drive, and find out that they're all talk and they don't actually torrent
But they have to go through around a terabyte of badly drawn furry porn before they can be sure
knock on your door Open up! It's Sony Data "Recovery" Division, you have 5 seconds to comply!
lol let them try
This just screams greed IMO.
Sony (Aniplex), the owner of Funimation (and new owner of Crunchyroll), who actually produced and holds the rights to most of Funimation's library via their partnership with a Japan-based subsidiary, are choosing to revoke your access to your media.
Funny thing is they merged in 2021, not sure why it was an issue running the two separate sites until now.
Because fuck you we're Sony I guess?
Business as usual. You get rich enough to buy out a smaller company and then funnel all of those resources into one main company so that your management now oversees even more power. Who cares how disconnected you are from the community when you're sleeping on a large stack of money every night.
not sure why it was an issue running the two separate sites until now.
Because that's twice the maintenance cost? The better question is why did they take so long after the merge to shut one of them down.
The most fucked up thing is that they're saying crunchyroll won't support funimations stuff.
FUNIMATION BOUGHT OUT CRUNCHYROLL. Not the other way around.
So funimation now owns CR and funimation is dropping off the digital copies that they themselves sold to people and changing their own name to Crunchyroll. Funimation literally chose to drop support of what they sold themselves, hike prices up after buying out their competitor Crunchyroll, and they're taking over using the name Crunchyroll because it has a more positive name recognition.
in the end, blame. sony (who owns both)
Good call.
Funimation was purchased by Sony and merged into Crunchyroll.
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And people can't understand why I still buy CDs and DVDs, , ,
As many other commenter's stated, it is actually specifically about if you bought physical copies and were given digital copies as well for use on funimation.
Lol, as if anime piracy wasn't already rampant and easy as shit to do.
Anime fans could figure it out before them and they can do the same after them.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The anime streaming service will start migrating existing subscribers to Crunchyroll — a move that will not only affect subscription prices, but will also wipe digital libraries.
We’ve reached out to Crunchyroll for more clarification about the new prices Funimation subscribers will have to pay but didn’t immediately hear back.
To make matters worse, Crunchyroll won’t support the digital copies redeemed through Funimation.
This promotion allowed users to redeem digital copies of a Funimation Blu-ray or DVD they purchased, giving them the ability them to store and view the show or movie through the streaming service.
The only reason why I kept Funimation was because I’m on a legacy $5.99 per month plan — making it the cheapest ad-free streaming service I have amid rising prices across the entire industry.
Sure, Funimation’s playback controls and UI aren’t all that great, but I’ll miss using the app to get my fill of nostalgia from Dragon Ball Z or to catch up with new episodes of My Hero Academia.
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