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They're trying to get outcompeted by nyaa. I refuse to pay money for that shit show of a streaming service
Is there a better service now that they also bought funimation?
Learn to torrent and use nyaa.
I've tried a few different services, aside from hidive the rest had a fairly poor experience.
So give hidive a shot if you're interested in a smooth experience.
Yes, there are multiple in FMHY megathread. After aniwave shut down I just hopped to the next one.
Like some Russian book pirates (Litres) becoming honest businessmen, with that splitting the community and some libraries, like Aldebaran and Librusec, going bad too. I liked old Aldebaran, it had very convenient search.
That drama is also why FB2 format exists and FB3 does not, it was in the works. And also why e-readers like FBReader and CoolReader have kinda stagnated.
Another reminder that we need to keep Crunchyroll from operating in SEA market.
We enjoy our anime being available on several platform at the same time. Whether it was on Netflix, Bilibili, Muse YouTube, or regional smaller platform.
Weren’t they founded on doing crime? AFAIR they were a piracy site.
You can take the company out of the pirate ship, but you can't take the pirate ship out of the company
following its acquisition from Sony
Has anything good EVER come from big company acquisitions AT ALL?
Geocities -> acquired by Yahoo -> crap -> death
Youtube -> acquired by Google -> ad crap
Blogger -> acquired by Google -> crap
Macromedia -> acquired by Adobe -> Monopoly crap
Washington Post -> acquired by Bezos -> political crap
MySQL -> Acquired by Oracle -> copyright crap
Github -> acquired by Microsoft -> crap
Reddit -> acquired by Conde Nast -> political crap
Twitter -> acquired by Musk -> utter crap
Every single time I see a cool startup get bought by a big player, all I can see is the service going to shit.
Well yes. That's the point. Cut costs (slash staff, quality, etc) then make as much money as you can as fast as you can off the goodwill and fan loyalty built up by the original product/service.
Vulture Capital doing what it does. Make everything shittier AND more expensive.
MySpace -> acquired by News Corporation -> insta death
Also, Twitter was always crap.
Just went down the rabbit-hole of the acquisition of MySQL as I was bored. What a fascinating story.
Dude who originally made it in 1995, Michael Widenius, named it after his daughter My, hence MySQL. He sold it to Sun for $1 billion in 2008. He then turned around, forked the software, and produced MariaDB (I always wondered why it was named that) starting a new organization around it in 2009. It's functionally nearly identical, often able to be used as a drop in replacement, assuming you aren't using new features developed after the fork. Last month, he sold it again, the same fucking base software, to some private equity firm (yay...). What a guy.
Unfortunately, he's run out of daughters to name software after and already used his son's name for something else, so we might be at the end of open-source, community-driven DB solutions from Michael. To be fair, relying on any projects from him to be free and open indefinitely is apparently not a good idea anyway.
Crunchyroll's (then Funimation) acquisition of Animelab is what led me to stop paying to stream anime.
Lower quality videos. Harder to navigate. Distracting watermarks on the side of the screen. Blocking VPNs. Ads even though you already pay them.
I hate that there is so little effort put into preventing monopolies from buying out the competition
Idk if it's appropriate to mention this:
Opera --> acquired by kunlun --> marketing lies and became a trash browser
I was just thinking today that any time i hear about a new company ill ask “are they publicly traded or planning to be?” I feel like thatll save a lot of time
Blogger is no longer supported and is suffering greatly people are leaving it in droves. You might as well call it dead
So is it -just- committed a federal crime or have been doing so for years
Had been. But we’re in a post-accountability era for corporations so most likely nothing will happen.
And that era started in the 1910s.
That era started in the 1700's Adam Smith ranted about a lack of accountability in corporations.
As far as I remember they started as a pirating site and only later started to acquire more and more streaming licenses. By all means they shouldn't even be in business today.
Crunchyroll has a monopoly on Anime? Shit, someone better tell Nyaa.
It will never cease to amaze me how people don't understand the law. No opening that mail was not a federal crime, if it's addressed to the business building than it is considered property of the business even if it has a specific person's name on it. They are fully within their right to open the letter, is it a dick move and are they assholes? Yes, is it a federal crime? Absolutely not
I'd be curious to see a citation because everything I can find suggests it's still obstruction of correspondence and a federal offense as they were not the intended recipient
Is Crunchyroll actually beholden to US law if they are a Japanese owned company?
Here in Australia the moment someone in the US cries foul it is waved away because simply not applicable to the laws of this country regardless what US federal law is broken, the same way all these other international companies wave away breaches of Australian law 🤷🏼♀️
I guess it would come down to the employment contract and if he was employed by a Japanese company or a US owned one?
Not sure which is why I ask.
If an Australian company has a shop or office in the US, what happens in that shop is beholden to US law. If a Japanese owned company commits US crimes while in the US, they are committing crimes.
Ah yeah fair enough that makes sense. Cheers!
So happy I didn't buy a crunchyroll subscription