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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Allero@lemmy.today to c/piracy@lemmy.ml

As Funimation drama unravels, here's a reminder for you that yt-dlp is able to download Funimation videos. Use that opportunity to preserve your collections before they're gone! (and keep them forever and ever)

Credits to humble jbk@discuss.tchncs.de who brought that up!

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[-] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 53 points 9 months ago

yt-dlp is amazing, it's just magical and works everywhere!

[-] queue 12 points 9 months ago

Your URL just links to an image of Funimation. Was this meant to link to something else like a tutorial?

[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Link in post links to their github to me. They probably made it an image post to have the funimation image in the post :)

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Basically that :D

Link in text! Picture is just picture.

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago
[-] Tsaot@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

Sony owns both Crunchyroll and Funimation. Sony is consolidating Funimation into Crunchyroll, but they are not preserving people's digital collections. People are losing access to the digital collections they purchased on Funimation even though Sony isn't going out of business.

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

Is crunchyroll in eu? Cause they are required to maintain the library, I’m sure

[-] utopiah@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Not a lawyer but it seems in lot of EU cases companies, e.g Apple or Facebook, go with 2 versions, i.e one for EU customers and one (usually the bad one) for others. I'd bet in the case either they pay the fine or make 2 versions.

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

It would be weird to do so I think. Crunchyroll doesn’t even allow to buy anime so I think they will allow people to download the ones they own on fun

[-] Nuerion@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

they dont want people to own anything they want them to rent forever

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thankfully we have the EU to stand up to these companies. Shame my country left it and we have Tories desperately trying to implement the dystopia of American corporate scamming that appears to be consumer culture in most developed countries on the other side of the world.

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I agree, but the crunchyroll business model has always been different hasn’t it?

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