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As Funimation drama unravels, here's a reminder for you that yt-dlp is able to download Funimation videos. Use that opportunity to preserve your collections before they're gone! (and keep them forever and ever)

Credits to humble jbk@discuss.tchncs.de who brought that up!

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[–] Tsaot@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sony owns both Crunchyroll and Funimation. Sony is consolidating Funimation into Crunchyroll, but they are not preserving people's digital collections. People are losing access to the digital collections they purchased on Funimation even though Sony isn't going out of business.

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is crunchyroll in eu? Cause they are required to maintain the library, I’m sure

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not a lawyer but it seems in lot of EU cases companies, e.g Apple or Facebook, go with 2 versions, i.e one for EU customers and one (usually the bad one) for others. I'd bet in the case either they pay the fine or make 2 versions.

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It would be weird to do so I think. Crunchyroll doesn’t even allow to buy anime so I think they will allow people to download the ones they own on fun

[–] Nuerion@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

they dont want people to own anything they want them to rent forever

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thankfully we have the EU to stand up to these companies. Shame my country left it and we have Tories desperately trying to implement the dystopia of American corporate scamming that appears to be consumer culture in most developed countries on the other side of the world.

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I agree, but the crunchyroll business model has always been different hasn’t it?