Funimation, a Sony-owned streaming service for anime, recently announced that subscribers' digital libraries on the platform will be unavailable after April 2. For years, Funimation had been telling subscribers that they could keep streaming these digital copies of purchased movies and shows, but qualifying it: “forever, but there are some restrictions.”

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[–] riquisimo@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are you able to download your purchases? I feel like the answer is "no," but if they were serious about your library being "yours" downloading your purchases would have been part of their service plan from the start.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 years ago

Not to my knowledge.

But also, I would assume the vast majority of library licenses were from buying blu-rays. You buy a movie or a season/collection and get a card to get the digital copy with it. So people, theoretically, already have physical copies.

In large part because... funimation was "the good anime streaming service". That is similar to "Sony's network shit is good compared to Nintendo" and "I would rather get shot in the ass than the foot"

Still hot bullshit though considering that there IS another anime service with similar capabilities under the same company (crunchyroll). I understand license hell and all that but... still.

[–] Agathon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

yt-dlp can be used.

I only have one purchase on Funimation, and it’s a digital version of a physical purchase.

I’m trying to figure out the exact best options at the moment. If there’s not one yet by the time I’m ready, I’ll make a thread with my command and why I chose each option.