Crunchyroll came from piracy, never felt right paying for it
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
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Unclear whether they were hacked. A followup says:
We [Crunchyroll] have […] investigated the situation, and determined that there is no evidence that Crunchyroll’s systems have been compromised
They may have been fished.
Sony and getting hacked, name a more iconic duo
I don't think this is a major "this is why people pirate". Pirate sites also regularly get cracked (possibly more often the the average streaming service). It isn't like bank details were leaked here so the only real difference is that in some pirate sites you don't need a login at all.
Who logs into a pirate site, though? Who gives them their financial information?
As a crunchyroll subscriber, this fucking sucks. They are not doing their jobs.
Or…people pirate because they can. Let’s not take some sort of moral high ground here. I’m all for preserving lost media, but come on now. Just ~~own~~ download it.
Convenience is another important part of piracy, logging into 30+ subscriptions to watch 8 different shows is not fun. It’s just faster too.
I saw a link on Lemmy to a “GoG” clone on which you can download all games for free.
Like of all the places not to pirate I would assume the company that enforces no DRM, direct downloads that you can save indefinitely and that makes older games work on newer hardware, would be on the top of that list.
Since those are such common complaints on why to pirate.
Next to that they have deals often where the prices are already really low.
Competing with free is near impossible.
And yet when Netflix was good the amount of people who pirated went down a ton. I was on that train. Just give me a service that isn't outrageously expensive, has most of the content i want, and is more convenient than pirating and I'll do it, as long as i have an income.
I was on this train. I paid for Netflix for a handful of years. Really my only complaint is that I couldn't share screenshots because of the DRM (you don't want free advertising?). But then the selection went downhill, new seasons of shows I was watching started appearing on other services. The UI got worse and slow. I eventually started getting pissed off and was wondering why I was paying for a frustrating service.
I had a very similar arc for YouTube Premium a few years after that one, I must have been a subscriber for 5 years at least. But then it got worse and worse.
Yeah early Netflix was great, now it’s too fragmented. Like a Tidal or Spotify would be useless if they would be fragmented on the same level.
Yeah, the music industry gets it and nearly everyone happily pays for Spotify as a result. Spotify is slowly enshitifying but it is still fairly convenient and has most things you would want to listen to.
Netflix was convenient, so was worth the cost. A 4K account with a few friends was just a few euros a month and had almost everything.
Now it's more expensive, can't share and I still need to download 75% of the things I want, so now arr + jellyseer is more convenient.