Obligitory Animes Thread

[iKotomi]

Are you calling juece an immature littke kid who is addicted to anime?

I have no idea. But that's how they treat every person that uses their service. And it makes sense.

They started up as a group of guys that streamed anime that other fansub groups had already offered for free through bittorrent and IRC. Their core sales target is a bunch of kids that need instant gratification and are too ignorant or indifferent to know the community that put the effort into bringing them translations.

 

[Juez]

I have no idea. But that's how they treat every person that uses their service. And it makes sense.

They started up as a group of guys that streamed anime that other fansub groups had already offered for free through bittorrent and IRC. Their core sales target is a bunch of kids that need instant gratification and are too ignorant or indifferent to know the community that put the effort into bringing them translations.

I didn't know anything about the whole back story for crunchyroll thing nor do I really give a shit. I only use the site for one anime and I get to watch it legally for free. You're making it seem that anyone who uses the site is an ignorant child for not going out of their way to look into the history of the site.

 

[Ghengis_John]

They started up as a group of guys that streamed anime that other fansub groups had already offered for free through bittorrent and IRC. Their core sales target is a bunch of kids that need instant gratification and are too ignorant or indifferent to know the community that put the effort into bringing them translations.

Iko, I respect your intelligence, I want you to know that up front, however this sounds like some immaturity and sour grapes. You're dwelling pretty bitterly on the past aren't you? They're not going to the community anymore, they're licensing properties the same way sites like Hulu are. (Exactly the same way if you check out which episodes of bleach they both have available.) The only difference I can see is they're doing it better. I mean to compare them directly to Hulu, no commercials with a membership, high resolution available and the episodes pop up hours after airing in japan as opposed to days after airing in japan. Whatever sins they might have committed in the past they seem to have their shit together now.

 

[iKotomi]

I've never said anything bad about the service they run.

I just feel that nothing has changed about the ownership except for the fact that they got some venture capital from some entrepreneurs who saw that they were making money. Perhaps it's irrational, but I try not to support businesses that are run by people who treat people with such disrespect. You've probably never had to deal with this, but translation is hard work. The final product is pretty much something that you have created yourself. And then to see it scaled down to youtube size quality, stuck next to a bunch of ads, and not even edited to have the "If you paid for this you are getting ripped off" screen taken out is beyond infuriating. And when you ask them to take it down, and they arrogantly refuse because you can't do anything about it, you can't help but assume they're a bunch of immature assholes trying to leech off of someone else's effort.

Maybe it is bitterness. How many people really stood up against this kind of behavior? Times have changed since the days of VHS and IRC, and there's a large disconnect between the people that put the effort in bringing stuff the community and the people that just click the download button.

So yeah, it's personal, but I'm pretty sure I made that clear from the beginning. We support evil companies like Phillip Morris that go legit all the time. Luckily I don't demand anime enough that I can live without their product.

 

[Animefreak6969]

Live without..... anime?

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