Funimation is shutting down — and taking your digital library with it::Funimation is shutting down on April 2nd, 2024. The service will automatically transfer subscribers to Crunchyroll, and legacy members will see a price increase.
“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.”
They can’t take my hard drives…
Lmao imagining Funimation execs browsing Lemmy looking for who to doxx
“GardenVarietyAnxiety implied that they have pirated content! Find their address and send an agent!”
Some poorly paid intern spends twenty hours combing through their Lemmy account, cross referencing information with other social media accounts with similar names, until they narrow GVA down to one person, send someone to take their hard drive, and find out that they’re all talk and they don’t actually torrent
knock on your door Open up! It’s Sony Data “Recovery” Division, you have 5 seconds to comply!
This just screams greed IMO.
Sony (Aniplex), the owner of Funimation (and new owner of Crunchyroll), who actually produced and holds the rights to most of Funimation’s library via their partnership with a Japan-based subsidiary, are choosing to revoke your access to your media.
Funny thing is they merged in 2021, not sure why it was an issue running the two separate sites until now.
Business as usual. You get rich enough to buy out a smaller company and then funnel all of those resources into one main company so that your management now oversees even more power. Who cares how disconnected you are from the community when you’re sleeping on a large stack of money every night.
The most fucked up thing is that they’re saying crunchyroll won’t support funimations stuff.
FUNIMATION BOUGHT OUT CRUNCHYROLL. Not the other way around.
So funimation now owns CR and funimation is dropping off the digital copies that they themselves sold to people and changing their own name to Crunchyroll. Funimation literally chose to drop support of what they sold themselves, hike prices up after buying out their competitor Crunchyroll, and they’re taking over using the name Crunchyroll because it has a more positive name recognition.
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ Back to the seas! 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
