When property is valued over people, piracy is protest. Pirating undermines a system that guards profit while neglecting humanity. Every download is a refusal to accept laws that protect wealth over well-being.
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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Enshittification, everyone. It comes to everything.
Am i the only one that is more concerned about AI-slob subtitles, because i get my animes from 3rd-parties anyway?
The problem here is that all these major anime providers are owned by Sony, so you're kinda fucked if you want to boycott them.
Did you read the article - or even the title? This story is about people turning to piracy, not turning to another official source.
You're not fucked if you have The Pirate Bay. :-)
Have you been living under a rock?
Nyaa.si
Animelab died for this
The whole “calling out Israel for genocide means you’re antisemitic” line is so worn out and honestly just exhausting. Israel has spent like 4+ decades trying desperately to associate criticism of israel with antisemitism.
I’ve been boycotting Crunchyroll for years, and I’m not stopping anytime soon.
"Piracy is a human right, collective ownership of the seas, comrades!" — Erik L. Midtsveen
Maybe instead of everyone calling it isreal and palestine, they should say the isreali government and innocent people.
They should say Netanyahu is committing genocide.
Saying israel instead of directly naming the culprits is sort of like when people say antifa. In the case of antifa it makes bad actors able to demonise the word and make it seem like a bad thing, so it can be used to twist peoples minds and make them think its a bad thing.
In the case of this genocide, it dehumanises the people committing the atrocities and diverts blame to the word instead of the people. Which has the effect of people like Netanyahu being able to reassociate the word with the israeli people and the jews.
So it absolutely isnt antisemitic to say israel is committing genocide, but it is unhelpful to divert the blame from the real asshats in charge.
Netanyahu
Yes, Netanyahu!
I wouldn't even pirate their content! Let's just hope enough people leave so they can shut down already!!! :-(
Its not their content (unless they make originals I dont know) they are just distributing Japanese content
I would very much like a streaming service that makes it transparent what it actually spends its income on.
Like - a streaming service where i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the studios/artists that actually produce the anime? I would take that.
But right now i'm worried that i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the shareholders of the streaming provider as "profit" while the studio gets almost nothing.
Yeah... sweet summer child you might not want to read Chokepoint Capitalism. It's closer to 99% for BigContent lawyers and right holders and less than 1% for actual creators.
Lol, I'm sure it's a good book and Cory Doctorow is well renowned, but I can't help but think: "Defeat Chokepoint Capitalism by buying our book right now!"
And ironically enough even though most book by Doctorow might be DRM-free, maybe this one is, I can't remember.
If you want I give you a free TL;DR: it's not just monopolies, it's also monopsies. When we feel trapped by buying with Amazon we often forget that authors often have the same feeling. So the "chokepoint" is not 1-sided but 2-sided.
Get thee to The Pirate Bay and send your direct donations on the side.
where would i send them to?
Corporations can't stand it a logarithmic graph. They need freaking geometric progressions, and then they do stuff that gets them an anti-logarithmic graph.
Greed kills
why not just pirate shit without a noble cause for once? You know - the old fashioned way
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Funnily enough, i was considering just today whether i should re-open my old Crunchyroll account. But i guess i won't do it now after all. IIRC there's been a streak of bad press about crunchyroll; like, this today isn't the only issue.
All the streaming services are unethical now, both in pricing and operation. Netflix is maybe the least bad, but I can’t justify the cost for that, either.
Stremio + Torrentio is the way to go.
What happens next is like what happened in the 2000s. People will turn to piracy as legitimate content is no longer feasible, affordable, or ethical. Then the corporate oligarchs will crack down violently to make examples of the people they’ve given no other choice or recourse.
It’s time to eat the rich.
Netflix charges me, a single guy, for 4 simultaneous streams if I want 4k. So I shared with my parents.
Then they had the audacity to stop people from password sharing or to charge even more if you want to share. I set up an automatic email forward so my parents get every sign in related email.
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I bailed on CR when they fired their US based IT people and outsourced to the cheapest Eastern Euro country. It wasn't even a purely moral decision. The website was janky in the first place and I knew it wasn't going to get batter at that point.
So non-Americans can’t do a good job, amirite?
I didn't get that vibe from the parent comment. the reaction was to the motivations of the rich fatcats who aren't happy with the obscene wealth they already have. Not American Exceptionalism.
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