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Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).

Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.

EDIT: Link was taken down thanks to someone in the comments here's the archive for the page https://web.archive.org/web/20251004184506/https://fandomwire.com/crunchyroll-faces-cancelation-why-anime-fans-are-choosing-piracy-after-latest-update/

https://bsky.app/profile/lamhfada.bsky.social/post/3m2c3udxnjc2u

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[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

why not just pirate shit without a noble cause for once? You know - the old fashioned way

[-] Aljernon@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

Old Fashioned Pirates were poor people treated like shit by their society lashing out at the system of oppression.

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

give it a couple of years and it would match just right

[-] IronBird@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

what are the good sources nowadays...been out of the game for awhile and it's to trust any sites promoted on any mainstreamish social networks.

like freemediaheckyeah, old reddit hub...is that still good?

ime every pirate source had 50/50 shot of turning into some virus/scam honeypot shortly after reaching high enough popularity

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

nyaa. Just look for a currently active Nyaa torrent site for anime. There's several.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean, I basically just download anything that's not an executable. So if its a video, audio, pdf, epub, etc... I don't worry about it. Its very rare for an updated system to get infected from a random .mkv.

I just use (https://fmhy.net/torrenting) one of the torrenting aggregators because its the most comprehensive search, I found an anime that I couldn't find anywhere else because there are dead torrents with no seeders everywhere else I looked.

[-] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

I just bookmark the piracy megathread/wiki thingy, lemmy/reddit (backup). For streaming, I would probably recommend hydra, it's really all the same but that site has "auto-next" which I prefer. There was one site I used to enjoy that was just better than any streaming platform I've paid for, skip intro, skip credits (would even detect after credit scenes), subtitles in all languages and audio tracks even commentary, quick responsive high quality loading of any media your mind can remember. They went after it hard and I haven't seen a proper iteration since (every clone slowly lost features as they were whack-a-moling).

For downloading, they're really all crappy (several link hoops to jump through) and hit or miss (for quality and selection you can't beat the ease of a torrent unfortunately). You can find what you want eventually but the difference in hassle is just crazy.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

i used to stream pirated some shows and a movie last decade, then they took down all those sites, i dont download.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago
[-] cobalt32 2 points 3 days ago

I pretty much just use 1337x.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

You can get the Evangellion dub off of internet archive, found that out a couple of days ago cause bored.

[-] Lycist@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

https://fmhy.lol/ Free Media Heck Yea has loads of free content across tons of topics listed.

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

no idea, man. I'm just a poser)

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