Every TV show or movie, in order to be published, should be required to be entered into a government database. After that you get some limited period (15 years?) of exclusive distribution rights, with the requirement that you must distribute it. If you make that content unavailable, you immediately lose distribution rights and it becomes publicly available on a government service.
From wikipedia:
Crunchyroll was first founded in 2006 and was initially a for-profit video upload and streaming site that specialized in hosting East Asian content. Some of the content hosted on Crunchyroll included versions of East Asian shows that had been subtitled by fans.
You could say the same about youtube, tbh.
I mean fans subs uploaded by fans and without license i would qualify as piracy.
Maybe, but i don't think so. Iirc, their whole appeal from the beginning was they were trying to start the first above the board legit US anime streaming site. I'm pretty sure they raised money to license small shows and were the first to do simulcast eng subs for a couple of them. I remember watching Giant Killing and a bunch of niche shows when they first started out.
I only know people I know who were into anome were watching pirate subs on crunchyroll back in the day.
Hmm, looks like it started as a video sharing site / forum and then pivoted towards legit stuff between 2008 and 2009.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090804181402/http://www.crunchyroll.com/
That's fucked up.
I just started watching Revolutionary Girl Utena, it's my first time watching so I didn't even realize it was appropriate for Pride, just a total coincidence. But I'm so glad I torrent. Fuck all of these streaming sites.
it's like THE gay anime. it's the one that gets referenced most, people still talk about it 27 years later, it gets mentioned in every list people make of "here's 10 anime that have gay people in them!", it's the best one by a country mile, and now the only legal way to watch it is to spend hundreds of dollars on the blurays or watch it in 480p on youtube (which is a crime given how pretty it is)
Yeah, it's pretty fun so far! I'm on episode 10. The weird thing is, I keep having a very strong sense of déjà vu like I've seen this show before. Déjà vu may even be an understatement, I know I've watched it but I don't remember watching it. I even remember scenes or sometimes predict how scenes will end, but I don't remember the show generally and I couldn't tell you how it ends or even what the best episode is about. But, so far at least, as I begin watching new episodes I'll 'remember' a little as it goes. It's so weird. I wonder if I watched it with someone long ago and totally blocked it from memory but the scenes trigger some flashes of recall as I go along? Anyway, just feels very mysterious to me and I wanted to share because it's a silly thing to feel so mysterious about.
I'm really enjoying the show though! I really recommend people torrent it if they want to watch it. It's like 40gb or something but it's better than 480p on YouTube, that sounds terrible.
huh. this experience is just like revolutionary girl utena
and yeah you should torrent it or buy the blu-rays if you can afford them (there's 3 and they're like 50$ each)
That youtube channel has some cool stuff on it. Wish they had more than just E1 of Astro Boy and Princess Knight, though.
Definitely a pain in the ass when streaming sites drop stuff - makes it hard to recommend to "normal people."
Mother's Basement just did a video about streaming services removing classic anime. He's pro piracy now.
raise the jolly roger and set sail for one piece
