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Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update (fandomwire.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).

Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.

EDIT: Link was taken down thanks to someone in the comments here's the archive for the page https://web.archive.org/web/20251004184506/https://fandomwire.com/crunchyroll-faces-cancelation-why-anime-fans-are-choosing-piracy-after-latest-update/

https://bsky.app/profile/lamhfada.bsky.social/post/3m2c3udxnjc2u

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[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I would never subscribe to Crunchyroll, because they use DRM.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] mr_jawa@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Found this. Apparently they took the post down but here is the archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20251004184506/https://fandomwire.com/crunchyroll-faces-cancelation-why-anime-fans-are-choosing-piracy-after-latest-update/

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Have this odd bug where CC is enabled at first on every episode and man, it’s bad. Luckily subs for JP dubs are somewhat decent but I feel bad for anyone who needs closed captioning.

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