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

submitted 2 weeks ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54821262

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.

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[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuck Crunchyroll. Good thing my subscription ended this week and it didn't auto renew. I just installed Hayase on PC to watch anime. The only thing I'm gonna miss is watching it on the TV.

[–] RedColossus@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

There’s plenty of sticks, like anything that supports Google TV, where you can use piracy software.