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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.

Ahh good ol' Aegisub. I have great memories of subtitling anime in my late teens before I got a girlfriend and the fansub scene died when Crunchyroll took over.

I was also one of the people helping test Aegisub on Linux (2009-ish), I wasn't a programmer at the time but I remember a dude called 'verm' in the IRC channel who did a bunch of work to make Aegisub stable on Linux. He taught me the difference between little endian and big endian, I guess he was bored that day

And the Spotify ceo just stepped down so he could focus on weapons systems for Israel. The people running all of our media services are Nazis.

Fansubs have always been superior.

Don't forget that Crunchyroll is also owned by Sony, who have basically picked up a monopoly on anime streaming services by buying out all of the competition. Aniplex, Funimation, Crunchyroll, Kadokawa, all under the Sony umbrella.

Just canceled. Thanks.

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.

Enshittification, everyone. It comes to everything.

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

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.

Oh, didn't realize this. Had a rolling sub which I never bothered to cancel as I very occasionally watch with mates, but have now cancelled it.

Animelab died for this

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.

And there goes the last streaming service I still paid to access. It was convenient exactly because of the subtitles...

Everything now must flow through my -arr stack.

The zionism thing was the icing on the shit cake. Fuck that genocidal ethnostate, and fuck all genocide enablers.

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

fan subs are best

Lol. Crunchy roll was always crap. Watching anime in the raw is torture.

As far as I know we don't even have fansubs anymore, any group nowadays is just a rip of whatever streaming has the anime, current anime if it's not picked up by any streaming will get no subs, the streaming giants were successful and embracing it and enshitifying.

I cannot seem to find any verification that any of this is happening. An OPs link is dead.

Greed kills