>>110761608It's really fucking stupid too since anime piracy over the net is A. Still a huge industry and B.Still one of the most well connected and stable forms of international crime in the fucking world. Nobody in pretty much any government gives a shit and most of the people running the servers either have connections running back decades or inherited them from people who did.
When Anime streaming became big, it was kind of an unspoken agreement to just go with it to show support for people putting out a good product, instead of the old tried and true methods of piracy. So long as we got our way to get good subbed/dubbed anime AND show some support for the creators without shelling out literally hundreds of dollars for imports, everything would be gangster. We'd just slowly move away from a criminal empire that grew via autism and on the back of running drugs and guns in the backroom of video stores for Uncle Toshiro with the nine fingers, before it evolved to hiding blackmail on executives and officials under multiple terabytes of tentacle porn and Pre Cure episodes [and both of those things at the same time] in servers kept in the middle east.
Had Crunchy Roll waited a decade or two more, for the last of the old "Smuggling VHS tapes and cocaine for the Yaks" weebs to die off and the tech savvy weebs who had no problem with piracy to transition over, maybe they could have pulled it off.
Instead, they and Funimation both said "Haha! Fuck you and fuck quality and doing our jobs! We have a monopol-wait where are you going?" as everyone just moved over to pirate sites or just watching shit that comes prepacked with their other streaming services.
