@@mrconroy4672 non physical things that just require a copy and an upload will always be possible to get as long as we live in a democracy. if piracy is completely wiped away that is the least of our concerns
@@mrconroy4672there really is no way to stop it completely. It’s like a virus; yes it will die to current countermeasures, but it’s “offspring” will live on and adapt to live with those conditions.
That depends on their systems and what they plan to innovate with. Either way, never take it for granted. Pirates in general need to do better and be better for long term sustainability.
@@wilfridekoue1405unfortunately, it’s doubtful that the future will be kind to pirates from all walks of life. Always keep your guard up and tread carefully.
Yeah they're very short sighted. Instead of trying to stop pirating which is impossible that's happening regardless there's always gonna be someone to pick up the flag. Fix the damn service issues.
Sounds like a cigarette company spending just enough money to investigate the connection of cancer and tobacco but not enough to actually find proof that wouldn't be buried in red tape.
The only reason I’m angry about this is I don’t want to be forced to support crunchyroll to watch anime. I know there are also alternatives but they don’t have certain anime I like watching. Also these sites don’t have the more obscure anime that the piracy sites have. It feels like a lose lose of the viewers part.
THIS! I personally wouldn’t care about them cracking down on piracy if we could be provided services directly and only from Japan. Japan has the right to crack down on it in their country but the issue is with distribution outside of the country. I don’t support Crunchyroll anymore and don’t want to support them knowing how poor their service is and how they change/manipulate translations. I also agree with the issue of not being able to watch older/obscure anime that streaming sites don’t have. I already buy/collect manga so piracy there isn’t my fight. But the anime side of it, Chibi is right when he says it’s a service issue. Crunchyroll didn’t become popular because people aren’t willing to pay if the service and convenience is there. Crunchyroll’s service and practices are TRASH. They have no wish or desire to improve it because they have the stronghold on anime and they have the support.
And when those sites do have obscure Anime, they drop it after a few months, cause of a weird "seasonal" hosting thing. It's why I don't bother with Netflix; I want to watch shows whenever the hell I want, not be forced to watch them all at once, then watch that Season vanish permanently. They do that crap all the time, where they drop the first Season of something then ONLY air the second Season, just as that show gets popular and I want to get into the series... only to find out I can't, because it's gone and my only option is to fork out $100 for a blue ray set that may be better or worse, depending on how it was changed for private release, which often includes censorship.
Not just that the pricing of DVDs and mangas are ridiculous like $20 to $25 just for one manga that's like a quarter of an inch thick. And DVDs that cost 60 bucks Canadian for one season or maybe it's like $200 for that one season. Like it's ridiculous. It's overpriced garbage pricing and then the Monopoly of Sony crunchyroll situation and Visa it's like no I'm not no thanks. Not going to happen I'm not going to spend money on crappy pricing you want me to buy manga and DVDs then price and reasonably like one season for $10 and $3 for the manga Canadian.
Yeah but for me it's not just the obscure anime, I tried paying for Crunchyroll in Nigeria and there was literally nothing I wanted to watch in my region, legit I wasted money on it when all the anime I wanted just wasn't available in my region
Honestly I 100% see this backfiring one way or another. There are so many things I would not have discovered if it wasn't because I had the chance to fly a pirate flag. The best way to combat piracy is to make better services. All this will do if it even works is reduce the number of people that get interested in their stuff.
No matter how hard they try, piracy will always exist because there is a demand, especially for the anime and manga that aren't officially translated or available legally. Not to mention how some people either can't pay or don't want to support the shady practices. If you want to still support the people behind it you could buy merch from japan or anywhere that makes merch for the series that will still give some money to the creators.
Unfortunately, time is always fickle and things can automatically change on a whim especially in the long term. Never underestimate your enemies and always keep your guard up.
You forgot to mention one very big reason people pirate anime and manga... They very often would be better translated by toddlers. The amount of time I've seen horrible translation that were not only wrong, but completely against the original material is pretty impressive, so people tend to prefer fan translated stuff.
@rebaxbayushi577 exactly i feel ya there especially with those people who brag about butchering a series because they hate everyone who basically pays them
Well, Japan is not gonna know who toddlers are or not. The law demands is just a spark but the chance to get a skyrocket is high especially for officials that translating is in question whether the translator is pro or a toddler at best.
If Buying isn't owning then Piracy isn't Stealing. Tell Japan to make their own all in one solution for watching anime, I don't want to support Crunchyroll or other western options
And Japanese created anime aren't the only country's things people are watching Niche donghua and [whatever the Korean word is for anime] are exponentially more difficult to find outside of such sites, or even get reccomend outside of the sites sections too
There should be a general catalog of anime containing all anime managed by the government, all streaming site can use it, that way people actually pay for the streaming service and not because of the anime selection, causing sites to strive to become better because that's the only thing the can compete with. Of course anime studios would get a fair cut, more fair than currently.
The problem with AI is that it's open technology. Which means if they use it to try to track someone down, then that someone can use the exact technology to protect themselves. They haven't made the age of pirating harder for us to use. They just made it more difficult to stop.
It will be hilarious they make an AI to hunt down pirate sites and then those sites make Captcha where have click characters from anime like one piece that says chose the correct pirate XD.
@@mricecreamofficial except image captchas are not just about image recognition, it's actually about human behavior, cursor movement, reaction time, search history, fingerprinting & digital footprint, browser metadata etc., all this is used behind the scenes to determine if you are really human
@SimonKnowsNothing yeah we gotta admit they got some good products, hard to not use em. I won't be supporting their scummy business practices with animanga
There needs to be long term sustainability since time is always fickle. Now’s not the time to celebrate too early. It’s the time to make improvements and fortifications lest it crashes into the sea long term.
As a 16 year resident of Japan, that is money that will sink into a hole and never be seen again. Japan (the government especially) is especially bad with efficient tech. They have plenty of other software systems that are utter crap.
To be fair, anime/manga are not a human right (rightfully so), so not having money is not a good argument. I am a supporter of 🏴☠️ but not for that reason.
@@Pit1993x It *is* a good argument, just worded poorly. Regional pricing would contribute to solving a part of the service issues, as 100$ a month in subscriptions in the US != 100$ of subscriptions in let's say Albania.
and another issue that you have not mentioned is that if they somehow do succeed in getting rid of prating sites is that it would unironically cripple or even kill the anime/manga industry because so many people used or use those sites to get into anime and manga and helps them find series that they like a lot easier and get merch of the series they like because of that i have bought several mha volumes and a poster because i really enjoyed watching it via piracy sites my self
I got into anime because of pokemon from tv when younger and as now a little older, I watched Naruto and Naruto Shippuden English duub episodes and movies on youtube (2016-2018~), before they were baanned and then I went on watching a lot more anime tv shows and movies from internet legally, though usually not crunchyroll
Many have found obscure amine from pirating that leads to a fan base, now those obscure anime my never see the light of day in finding a fan base. For ever to be buried by big names.
Thanks to a "legal" website though not crunchyroll, I found animes named for example: Mirai Nikki, Another (horror/ghost), Shiki, Higurashi, Umineko (better as a video game because anime didn't finish the full story), Code Geass, and many more I don't currently remember because I've found so many good ones I've even found Fate/ animes and anime movies thanks to it too, I didn't know they made computer games and I don't even know how to buy their computer game in a legal way, Steam app? Those older Japanese video games with English text like Tsukihime, Fate/Stay Night etc., Higurashi, Umineko
@@Joji047 search for "battle spirits double drive torrent" A nice torent site will be first or second in the search results. This is a card game anime that isn´t even fully subed, nothing weird
They want my money but I don't have that kind of money to read manga or watch anime.. no money for 1000 or more series.. I just can't afford it. Btw piracy sites are better than "official" sites..
There's a lot of morality policemen around here cute. The fact that they think they're actually going to stop pirates is hilarious. They can try to create an AI to go after pirates but pirates just create a way around it or an AI to go after their AI which will actually be pretty funny But I'm ready to watch them waste their money.
Yep... I mean in all likelyhood all websites have to do is use images that are encoded with nightshade and an AI is going to get demolished. Either that or all pirate sites start copying Crunchyroll layout or put a screenshot of it on the frontpage before scrolling down so the Ai can't detect shit.
@@MajorSmurftwo million dollars isn’t enough plus the amount of false positives is going to be really bad especially if sites use Crunchyroll as a template to try and wepenize the ai against itself
Sorry I’m not supporting Crunchyroll , Netflix & Hulu because of numerous reasons . So because of that I don’t care if I have buy a drone and fly it to Japan to watch anime through a outdoor event . Sorry not sorry I’m not supporting greedy business suits who see dollar sighs not creative creators .
At the very least they could have used AI for the reason of protecting themselves from the payment processors BEFORE using it to go after the pirate sites, but nope. They want the pirate sites to be the first thing possibly thinking it's more important. This also tells me that they might fold to the demands of the payment processors soon, but it's too early to tell for sure.
I mean it would be great but... The real point is that if there was a site where we could watch all the shows without any problems than yes. Go shut the sites down. But if there is not really one big singular and afordable site where we can watch anime / read manga and read light novels than yeah I am for the sailing of the seven seas. The worst part is that a lot of shows don't even have licencing in many countries. And a lot of the streaming services are region locked and region based meaning: Yes sometimes you can't even watch the show you want. Hence Piracy. Trying to get rid of the problem without trying to fix the core of the crux is stupid. This is a service Issue.
You see this is exactly the issue. Most anime fans do not even know what they actually need. It is a service issue because CR tried to be the site to watch all shows. No we do not need "one site that has all anime". That is a monopoly, and all monopolies are corrupt. If there is one site, why would they make it affordable?? We need each animation studio and publisher to have their own site. That is how it works in Japan. That is what will make them affordable. Competition.
@@leonmat26 We need fifty independent sites that individually have all of anime and manga. Right now we have hundreds of unofficial sites that are close, and one previously unofficial one that has barely anything.
@@leonmat26 Well I am just saying what a consumer would like. Of course you are right that if there is a monopoly of one company than it is bad. But what if it was not under a company but goverment. I mean the streaming platform. But that would have it's own issues... hmm quite a pickle we are in. But if each studio had it's own site. You would need to subscribe to 20 sites. Which isn't perfect either. It's unrealistic to think that someone would pay more than 50 bucks for anime subscriptions. Cause in some countries they if you earn 400-500 bucks you are more than happy. Maybe the solution would be to have one site has it all. But each studio would have it's rights and all depending on the quality of work. But that would push a lot onto animators. At the same time it would make the studios more likely to pick up more interesting stuff. Or maybe make a platform where all studios are together. Being under the goverment... But than the censoring issues..... No solution is perfect... And dividing it into ''kid'' and ''adult'' version won't help it... There is a solution but I can't think of it. But still I agree that in the end it is a service issue. In my country I can not even use Hi-Dive....
@@Kraxhor UA-cam as usual hiding my replies. Ugh. Point is: You would not need to subscribe to 20 sites. Most people do not read or watch that much anime every week. You can alternate services (i.e choice), and each service will be cheaper than one service that has them all. Plus, because of competition, some of these sites will just do ads instead of subs to get subscribers. Like Shonen Jump manga app is free for all new chapters. But let me give you an example. Disney, Netflix, HBO. I like shows in all of these. I do not watch show in all of these at the same time. I only buy Disney when Star Wars shows are done. I pay for one month at a time, not for an entire year. Haven't used Disney since Ashoka came out a year ago. HBO I only pay for whenever I have a cartoon I am interested on. And Netflix is the one I pay for year round. All in all, I am not subscribed to all of them at once. Point is: Subscriptions can be turned on and off on demand. You don't need to be subscribed year round to every service. Have the companies actually compete for your subscription by providing a better service.
They can only arrest people who are in Japan or in regions where the representation offices are located. It is impossible to stop piracy entirely because it is decentralized, and many piracy platforms operate outside Japanese jurisdiction, making enforcement challenging. At best, they can block those pirated websites from appearing in their region's internet search results, but even then, new sites often emerge to replace those taken down, making it nearly impossible to eliminate piracy entirely.
Ngl 2million on AI for this seems like it's not nearly sufficient to actually create and maintain such a system. Like even if they made the initial AI, the training data is going to instantly be outdated, because people will immediately shift how they're designing the sites to avoid the patterns that the AI detects...
The biggest problem I have is not having to pay for the Manga/Anime because I already pay for crunchyroll and buy paperback for manga. However, imo the biggest problem is manga/anime that's not available officially (a lot of them) e g. Kingdom my favorite manga of all time is only available on pirate websites from what I know
@BloodrealmX Exactly. Additionally, without pirate websites companies will have the power to do whatever they want. Like how recent companies are making their subscriptions much more expensive and adding ads to lower tiers.
Both of you said it this are problem i also have with this site's anime you wanna watch is not there and there's also woke translation problem. There are 2 official manga app in Play Store i know of manga plus don't have one punch man shonen jump has it. but they don't have another manga i wanna read I would happily see 2 or 3 ad's to support creators but no option of that either.
Then people need to learn they should pay the money now instead keep asking “Hey, why this is not season 2 yet?” or “hey, the animation of this season is not good enough”.
@KamiDionysus Oh I definitely agree with you, but one of the reasons people don't want crunchyroll is precisely because they want their money only to support the japanese series, many people don't want dubs or crunchyroll censoring out stuff they see problematic or finance original crunchyroll anime. The money frequently does not go where it needs to
@@AlisSpark Really? I want to know more about details, because I’m not western people and of course not a crunchcyroll user. Can you share your thought with me? By the way, seems like more people prefer SUB more, right? I always think English DUB very cringe especially in slice of life anime.
@@KamiDionysus I've never used Crunchyroll, but I've somewhat seen the layout (it's not the best, and especially considering there aren't those amazing comment sections), and not to mention the many reacting channels complaining about its servers and whatnot (also subtitles can be weird). If Crunchyroll was better, I wouldn't complain about buying the subscription (although it's still a monopoly, and it's western, so I'll pass).
I swear people won't even pirate if they actually have ACCESS TO ANIME!!! AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S WORSE? CREDIT CARD COMPANIES THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OUR ACCESS TO WATCH YOUR ANIME IS ALSO KILLING YOUR ANIME NOW, SO GOOD JOB JAPAN.
Common service issues: - overpriced $20/mo ad-free subscriptions - no official dubbings or translations - region/country-locked access - no longer distributed/produced titles To solve the issues, address the incentives.
It pisses me off to no end that companies think they can remove bare minimum features then turn around and say that piracy is our fault. If you want my money you have to earn it, you're not entitled to it just for having an exclusivity contract!!
If i didn't pirate and was capable of affording all the streaming services, i still wouldn't be able to watch in a legal way, half the anime i see every new season.
the absolute majority of anime fans (who heavily contribute to the current popularity of anime and manga) can't afford to watch anime or read manga legally,not only because they may not be able to afford it,but also due to the geographic limitations of payment systems . Anime is going to take a heavy hit and they will wonder where all the fans have gone.
Personally I can CAN afford it and I am NOT in a location with geographical issues. I pirate most of my entertainment for two reasons: 1. Because I have far FAR more important things that my money needs to go towards than what I do in the evenings after work. I got bills to pay, food to buy and elderly family members to support. 2. In the instance of anime and manga, I REFUSE to give a cent of my money to the companies that bring anime and manga to my language officially and legally, because they are ALL utter dog shit.
I live in Malaysia, to buy 1 manga volume physically is around RM50 (about $10 for you guys and around 1700¥) looks cheap to you but very expensive for us. We have no proper anime channels on tv, heavily reliant on Netflix and Disney+ for mainstream anime, we have no way to watch obscure anime or read obscure manga.. And they want to combat piracy??
They need to fix the service problem first. To watch the whole pokemon anime I need to have like 5 different streaming sites. I don't want to just watch censored content. And most importantly make shit available and affordable.
They may try to take down the piracy websites, but these so called legal websites can never have old animes and retain it due to their license of it owning for only certain period of time.
Merit matters the most to never worry about pirating. Even if I were to pirate, if I enjoy the content, I buy the offline copy from the creator. Lars Ulrich is fine with that.
A lot of manga on the pirate sites are fan translations of manga without official Eng translations. Loosing access to those sites will actually hurt the managa market since its a basically an ad for when official translations are made.
One of the main issues I have with legitimate manga and anime streaming services is that you don’t actually own the content; you're essentially renting access. Once a manga or anime leaves the platform, you can't continue to watch or download it. In contrast, one of the best features of piracy sites is the comments section, which legal streaming services often lack. This is especially true for anime streaming platforms, though it's less of an issue for manga sites. Another problem is that with legal platforms, you usually need to subscribe to multiple services just to access all the anime you want, whereas piracy sites don’t have licensing restrictions. Personally, I don’t mind buying physical books to support manga creators, but I don’t use Blu-rays or DVDs anymore. I prefer having everything in digital form because it lasts longer and doesn’t get lost or damaged unless you're careless. I just wish it was more like Steam or mobile apps-once you've downloaded a game or app, even if it's later removed from the store, you still own the product.
Spend 2 million on building an ai system to combat piracy rather than build a system where people can watch anime without needing 10 services to watch anything you want. Extremely out of touch Japan as usual
This is a similar issue to what the west had with music industry where we had stuff like itunes, Pandora and Spotify showing up as an alternative to buying a CD and cassette tapes and it caused a lot of major artists to go on strike. But I think will become a lot more common as companies start lagging behind because they will fail to stop piracy because they can't stop the progression of technology and automation of every industry
The reason anime and Manga exploded higher is because major Hollywood and major comic book titles have become woke trash. Anime and manga is far, far more entertaining.
Being an industry valued at 28 billions of dollars, shouldn't the japanese government focus in matters like, the way investors get all of the distribution and copy rights. So the studios don't benefit financially and in turn neither do the animators, even if it's a big hit overseas and makes a lot of money.
Another issue is not every anime streaming app has every anime you may want to watch and who wants to buy multiple subscriptions just to be able to watch all the anime you want?
Question: If piracy is fully countered, will the animators get payed better or worst? Will it improve the animation quality than what happened to Blue Luck and 7 Deadly Sins 😅
The only problem I have is there are Animes that you can’t find or is nearly inaccessible through proper methods. These websites preserve legacy content that are otherwise lost.
Just create a platform for viewing outside of Japan. There needs to be a Japan based platform that is made widely available. For foreigners we have to pay for several subscriptions just to watch anime, and even then, they dont have everything you can find on a pirated site.
I mean piracy wouldn't be as big an issue as it is if the companies that hosted anime and manga wasn't ran by people who hated us and trys to push propaganda through them and or makes shitty deals that benefits no one but the company itself and screws customers over. Also if their website wasnt cancer to pilot through is a big one.
It just feels to me like wasted effort. They should instead focus on improving their streaming services. To give an example, my little brother is a huge One Piece fan. But because he can't speak Japanese or English, the only way he can watch the anime is through pirate sites. Ultimately, it is what it is. Even I sail the 7 seas because not all anime I want to watch are on Crunchyroll.
@@Delimon007 They want attention, so they leak useless information that nobody actually cares about, but since it's not known information people pay attention to it.
How about they make it so that paying for stuff is actually more convenient than not paying? Not paying for stuff is actually a better consumer experience, both in quality and availability of content.
And thus the war between the Pirates and Marines begun.
Get the crew together
What happened to the other guy did he get lost again God damn it
Grab your straw hats brothers, freedom awaits
Time for the liberation army to look east
THE ONE LEAK IS REAL
The sea is bigger than japan.
Very true, but time is always fickle no matter how you look at it. Once they find a way to destroy it altogether, it’s going to be an end of an era.
@@mrconroy4672 there is no way lol, as long as there are things to sell, there will be ways to get those things for free
@mrconroy4672 that era come to a end
@@mrconroy4672 non physical things that just require a copy and an upload will always be possible to get as long as we live in a democracy. if piracy is completely wiped away that is the least of our concerns
@@mrconroy4672there really is no way to stop it completely. It’s like a virus; yes it will die to current countermeasures, but it’s “offspring” will live on and adapt to live with those conditions.
It's impossible to end piracy. They would have to arrest all crakers in the world.
And some are smart enough to frame it on others as well 😂😂
True it would be better for them to go after visa and the credit cards
If they managed to do it, i will become one myself
That depends on their systems and what they plan to innovate with. Either way, never take it for granted. Pirates in general need to do better and be better for long term sustainability.
There's plenty in American prisons :P
THE AGE OF PIRATING WILL NEVER ENNNNDDD
Ok pirateBeard
Zehahahaha! :))
Pairateing is over era of big Bubba begins don't pirate anime not unless you want you butt hole huge .
Social credits: Did you create or access pirated sites? Minus 1,000 credits to buy food. From now on, we will block your access to the market.
THE ONE PIECE IS REAL
Maybe first don't consolidate almost all streaming in Sony's grasp.
Exactly. Dissolve Sony and then maybe we can talk about ending piracy
Yep theyre should be multiple options not just one way that sucks donkey sh t
@@ReiseLukas nupe....swwy aint happing....even if chu fwakd sony over piricy will still always exsist
Facts don't make a monopoly otherwise piracy will never end
@@wilfridekoue1405unfortunately, it’s doubtful that the future will be kind to pirates from all walks of life. Always keep your guard up and tread carefully.
$2 million isn't anywhere near enough to develop an AI that can do what they want it to do. Governments are bizarrely stupid.
Yeah they're very short sighted. Instead of trying to stop pirating which is impossible that's happening regardless there's always gonna be someone to pick up the flag.
Fix the damn service issues.
Basically virtue signalling to industry to placate them probably.
it could just be money laundering. Our government looks for excuses to spend money on business they're invested in all the time.
Sounds like a cigarette company spending just enough money to investigate the connection of cancer and tobacco but not enough to actually find proof that wouldn't be buried in red tape.
I'm predicting it tries to take down MAL lololol
Japan wouldn't need to do this if they just made it easily available and stopped depending on sony
And other third party companies. I'm looking at you Netflix/Disney+ !
Include Visa and Mastercard screwing global consumers of the medium
Exactly this, can they just make it easily available
They can crack down on pirates but not improve distribution
They wouldn’t need it as much, but you could have the best streaming device ever and people would still pick the free option
"People's dreams...have no end."
and so does piracy
true
"Hito no yume wa... OWARA NAI"
*slams down rum bottle*
@Exciya
Blackbeard speech about people's dreams to Luffy in One Piece?
The only reason I’m angry about this is I don’t want to be forced to support crunchyroll to watch anime. I know there are also alternatives but they don’t have certain anime I like watching. Also these sites don’t have the more obscure anime that the piracy sites have. It feels like a lose lose of the viewers part.
Sadly 😔
THIS! I personally wouldn’t care about them cracking down on piracy if we could be provided services directly and only from Japan. Japan has the right to crack down on it in their country but the issue is with distribution outside of the country. I don’t support Crunchyroll anymore and don’t want to support them knowing how poor their service is and how they change/manipulate translations. I also agree with the issue of not being able to watch older/obscure anime that streaming sites don’t have. I already buy/collect manga so piracy there isn’t my fight. But the anime side of it, Chibi is right when he says it’s a service issue. Crunchyroll didn’t become popular because people aren’t willing to pay if the service and convenience is there. Crunchyroll’s service and practices are TRASH. They have no wish or desire to improve it because they have the stronghold on anime and they have the support.
And when those sites do have obscure Anime, they drop it after a few months, cause of a weird "seasonal" hosting thing. It's why I don't bother with Netflix; I want to watch shows whenever the hell I want, not be forced to watch them all at once, then watch that Season vanish permanently. They do that crap all the time, where they drop the first Season of something then ONLY air the second Season, just as that show gets popular and I want to get into the series... only to find out I can't, because it's gone and my only option is to fork out $100 for a blue ray set that may be better or worse, depending on how it was changed for private release, which often includes censorship.
Not just that the pricing of DVDs and mangas are ridiculous like $20 to $25 just for one manga that's like a quarter of an inch thick. And DVDs that cost 60 bucks Canadian for one season or maybe it's like $200 for that one season. Like it's ridiculous. It's overpriced garbage pricing and then the Monopoly of Sony crunchyroll situation and Visa it's like no I'm not no thanks. Not going to happen I'm not going to spend money on crappy pricing you want me to buy manga and DVDs then price and reasonably like one season for $10 and $3 for the manga Canadian.
Yeah but for me it's not just the obscure anime, I tried paying for Crunchyroll in Nigeria and there was literally nothing I wanted to watch in my region, legit I wasted money on it when all the anime I wanted just wasn't available in my region
They can try
but a 12yr old who needs his high school dxd will hack it
@@tenshadowsnotbumgumi get aressted lol
For what little "good" it will do them.
@@HenshinFanatic kids gone prison for murder
Chills 🥶
Taking down anime piracy sites is like fighting a hydra. You take down *_one_* head, and there's still two more to go.
heil hydra
heil hydra
heil hydra
Heil hydra
That’s the thing. They’re trying to build the flamethrower to sear the necks.
Honestly I 100% see this backfiring one way or another. There are so many things I would not have discovered if it wasn't because I had the chance to fly a pirate flag. The best way to combat piracy is to make better services. All this will do if it even works is reduce the number of people that get interested in their stuff.
“The great pirate era has begun…”
-one piece fans
Roger: You want me Website you can have it, i left everything to err gather in one place, now you just have to find it.
@@pizzaroll3356bruuuh so this is Gol D Zoomer?
Never watched one piece and I can say it's for every general anime fans.
You got that right
No matter how hard they try, piracy will always exist because there is a demand, especially for the anime and manga that aren't officially translated or available legally. Not to mention how some people either can't pay or don't want to support the shady practices.
If you want to still support the people behind it you could buy merch from japan or anywhere that makes merch for the series that will still give some money to the creators.
Unfortunately, time is always fickle and things can automatically change on a whim especially in the long term. Never underestimate your enemies and always keep your guard up.
@@mrconroy4672 Thank you Mr.Piccolo
You forgot to mention one very big reason people pirate anime and manga... They very often would be better translated by toddlers. The amount of time I've seen horrible translation that were not only wrong, but completely against the original material is pretty impressive, so people tend to prefer fan translated stuff.
@rebaxbayushi577 exactly i feel ya there especially with those people who brag about butchering a series because they hate everyone who basically pays them
Well, Japan is not gonna know who toddlers are or not. The law demands is just a spark but the chance to get a skyrocket is high especially for officials that translating is in question whether the translator is pro or a toddler at best.
If Buying isn't owning then Piracy isn't Stealing. Tell Japan to make their own all in one solution for watching anime, I don't want to support Crunchyroll or other western options
And Japanese created anime aren't the only country's things people are watching
Niche donghua and [whatever the Korean word is for anime] are exponentially more difficult to find outside of such sites, or even get reccomend outside of the sites sections too
Agreed.. Not to mention western sites censoring dialog. They can kiss my ass, I'll continue to sail the seven seas.
There should be a general catalog of anime containing all anime managed by the government, all streaming site can use it, that way people actually pay for the streaming service and not because of the anime selection, causing sites to strive to become better because that's the only thing the can compete with. Of course anime studios would get a fair cut, more fair than currently.
Luffy will find the one piece before they can end piracy.
Marineford IRL??
The problem with AI is that it's open technology. Which means if they use it to try to track someone down, then that someone can use the exact technology to protect themselves. They haven't made the age of pirating harder for us to use. They just made it more difficult to stop.
It will be hilarious they make an AI to hunt down pirate sites and then those sites make Captcha where have click characters from anime like one piece that says chose the correct pirate XD.
Sadly they could just add image recognition to the AI
@@mricecreamofficial except image captchas are not just about image recognition, it's actually about human behavior, cursor movement, reaction time, search history, fingerprinting & digital footprint, browser metadata etc., all this is used behind the scenes to determine if you are really human
I've already seen this on pirate sites anyway.
Not a new thing either, it's been there for at least 20 years now.....
The "choose all female characters" had me rolling with Felix on the bottom row 😂
Well, it's been an honor on being together with y'all people
Japan companies when it comes to visa and credit cards: I'm asleep
Japan companies when it comes to good sites: stop that now
@og_3rd_st_saint_gat i would agree with this statement if i just removed any type of nuance those two situations have
We all thought it would end with Denuvo when it was just getting started. You might wanna sit on tight.
No worries bro this can't stop the cat site 😂
it's truly over.... I'll see you tomorrow when the new episode come out
This is a war I refuse to lose.
Real shit. I do not care how much effort is required, I will not pay sony a dime.
@SimonKnowsNothing I will but only because I use a PS5 and genuinely enjoy it BUT I WILL NOT SUPPORT KODAKAWA
@@Dragonlord826 I mainly meant subscription based stuff from them. I use Sony headphones 😂
@SimonKnowsNothing yeah we gotta admit they got some good products, hard to not use em. I won't be supporting their scummy business practices with animanga
@@Dragonlord826Sony didn't buy kadokawa yet, hopefully
This is the start of a legendary never-ending fight that will make a huge impact.
They've been saying this since 2018, and the anime and manga community still find alot of alternatives for piracy 😂😂
They've been saying this since the 80's when people copied Video 2000 and VHS tapes.
@@MeltonCrest You Wouldn't Download A Car
@@nightcliff5411 "Never Illegally Download"
There needs to be long term sustainability since time is always fickle. Now’s not the time to celebrate too early. It’s the time to make improvements and fortifications lest it crashes into the sea long term.
Yh but did they ever straight up announce something like this?
Isn't this the tenth time they've said they'll get rid of piracy for good in the past twenty years?
Yeah. The worst part is that they know they can't get rid of it, so instead they decided to go after manga recap channels.
Asmongold reacted to your previous visa video so alot more people will be exposed to what Visa and Mastercard are doing to censor anime and manga
phew, thank god...
People still watch that hack? LOL. Now THAT'S news...
Wait what.
What do credit card companies have to do with Anime lmao 😭
As a 16 year resident of Japan, that is money that will sink into a hole and never be seen again.
Japan (the government especially) is especially bad with efficient tech. They have plenty of other software systems that are utter crap.
Damn
Pointless waste of money.
That won't end piracy
Some of us don't have Credit card and money to watch anime and read manga 😢
yea or the room or space for all the anime and books to buy.
I don’t want to support a site known to push their own narrative agenda in their dubs and subs.
To be fair, anime/manga are not a human right (rightfully so), so not having money is not a good argument. I am a supporter of 🏴☠️ but not for that reason.
@@Pit1993x Exactly, piracy should still exist it's a gray zone we have thanks to the internet combating it through brute force is gonna backfire
@@Pit1993x It *is* a good argument, just worded poorly. Regional pricing would contribute to solving a part of the service issues, as 100$ a month in subscriptions in the US != 100$ of subscriptions in let's say Albania.
and another issue that you have not mentioned is that if they somehow do succeed in getting rid of prating sites is that it would unironically cripple or even kill the anime/manga industry because so many people used or use those sites to get into anime and manga and helps them find series that they like a lot easier and get merch of the series they like because of that i have bought several mha volumes and a poster because i really enjoyed watching it via piracy sites my self
I got into anime because of pokemon from tv when younger and as now a little older, I watched Naruto and Naruto Shippuden English duub episodes and movies on youtube (2016-2018~),
before they were baanned and then I went on watching a lot more anime tv shows and movies from internet legally, though usually not crunchyroll
I knew something was up when my website stopped uploading episodes since last week.
Gogoanime?
They said fairy tail dub was delayed bc of thanksgiving so 2 eps will drop on sunday i was so dissapointed
I haven’t been able to catch up to Blue Box on my website, that’s probably why. I’m able to keep up with Ranma 1/2 tho, so it wasn’t a Netflix issue
@@AppStateBuffaloBillsWaifu yeah blue box and Seven deadly sins four knights of the apocalypse episodes are taking too long
@@lilkiddyt3946 it’s the end of that website
We're closer than ever to the Psycho-Pass timeline 💀
Fr 💀💀
Forget Shimoneta, We’re going to the Psycho-Pass timeline 💀
How bout we go for both!
Frr💀
Sibyl system proto type is coming
Select all images with women is gonna be so fucking hard bro😭😭🙏🙏
I know right, specially with Felix in it.
Anime got popular because of piracy.
Whatever they say against us, it's wrong.
I choose a pirate sites over official onesbecause I get to choose to load comments if I want to read them.
I live for after episode comedy comments
Many have found obscure amine from pirating that leads to a fan base, now those obscure anime my never see the light of day in finding a fan base. For ever to be buried by big names.
Thanks to a "legal" website though not crunchyroll, I found animes named for example: Mirai Nikki, Another (horror/ghost), Shiki, Higurashi, Umineko (better as a video game because anime didn't finish the full story), Code Geass, and many more I don't currently remember because I've found so many good ones
I've even found Fate/ animes and anime movies thanks to it too, I didn't know they made computer games and I don't even know how to buy their computer game in a legal way, Steam app? Those older Japanese video games with English text like Tsukihime, Fate/Stay Night etc., Higurashi, Umineko
Why hasn't Touhou Project and Zelda made animes and anime movies, they have many video games
@ I’ve herd rumors of Zelda movie being made seeing the Mario movie success. Who knows
AI wouldn't stop things like Torrent streaming so I'm not to sure how much it will actually hurt piracy.
There any site you can name? I'm interested in torrent now that Japan might take down pirate sites
@@Joji047 search for "battle spirits double drive torrent" A nice torent site will be first or second in the search results. This is a card game anime that isn´t even fully subed, nothing weird
@Joji047Reddit piracy mega thread. look for the anime section and find the wiki. Good luck
I rather give money to the pirate website that gives me all the anime instead of a company that has only 2 shows I want to see
They want my money but I don't have that kind of money to read manga or watch anime.. no money for 1000 or more series.. I just can't afford it. Btw piracy sites are better than "official" sites..
Aside from pop-up ads I agree with you
@@ReiseLukasad blocker...?
@@ReiseLukas Brave Browser
Also buffering and delays but those are small potatoes
not a problem with an adblocker which is basically mandatory for going anywhere online
That capcha meme is hilarious. There are about 4 that I've admittedly never seen before, but I'd click Tequila Joseph 100 times out of 100.
I'm all for paying for my Manga/Anime, but that'll mean they'll have to actually make it available where I live. If they do that, I'm ok with this.
There's that too.
There's a lot of morality policemen around here cute. The fact that they think they're actually going to stop pirates is hilarious.
They can try to create an AI to go after pirates but pirates just create a way around it or an AI to go after their AI which will actually be pretty funny
But I'm ready to watch them waste their money.
Ai vs Ai...that's something I'd pay to watch XD
Yep... I mean in all likelyhood all websites have to do is use images that are encoded with nightshade and an AI is going to get demolished. Either that or all pirate sites start copying Crunchyroll layout or put a screenshot of it on the frontpage before scrolling down so the Ai can't detect shit.
@@MajorSmurftwo million dollars isn’t enough plus the amount of false positives is going to be really bad especially if sites use Crunchyroll as a template to try and wepenize the ai against itself
Pirates can just use their own AI to fight. So it's not gonna stop
@@MajorSmurfThat's assuming the a.i. doesn't detect crunchyroll as a pirate web site.
It’s crazy that we’re getting IRL Summit War before GTA 6.
Lmfao
Sorry I’m not supporting Crunchyroll , Netflix & Hulu because of numerous reasons . So because of that I don’t care if I have buy a drone and fly it to Japan to watch anime through a outdoor event . Sorry not sorry I’m not supporting greedy business suits who see dollar sighs not creative creators .
Of course they would spend money on a system for good sites but do nothing about visa and credit cards
At the very least they could have used AI for the reason of protecting themselves from the payment processors BEFORE using it to go after the pirate sites, but nope. They want the pirate sites to be the first thing possibly thinking it's more important. This also tells me that they might fold to the demands of the payment processors soon, but it's too early to tell for sure.
Told ya Japan was weak. They rather bow down to money rather than stand up to defend themselves.
@@KhanMann66 I know they are since I found out about this
I mean it would be great but... The real point is that if there was a site where we could watch all the shows without any problems than yes. Go shut the sites down.
But if there is not really one big singular and afordable site where we can watch anime / read manga and read light novels than yeah I am for the sailing of the seven seas.
The worst part is that a lot of shows don't even have licencing in many countries. And a lot of the streaming services are region locked and region based meaning:
Yes sometimes you can't even watch the show you want. Hence Piracy. Trying to get rid of the problem without trying to fix the core of the crux is stupid.
This is a service Issue.
You see this is exactly the issue.
Most anime fans do not even know what they actually need.
It is a service issue because CR tried to be the site to watch all shows.
No we do not need "one site that has all anime".
That is a monopoly, and all monopolies are corrupt. If there is one site, why would they make it affordable??
We need each animation studio and publisher to have their own site.
That is how it works in Japan.
That is what will make them affordable. Competition.
@@leonmat26 We need fifty independent sites that individually have all of anime and manga.
Right now we have hundreds of unofficial sites that are close, and one previously unofficial one that has barely anything.
@@leonmat26 Well I am just saying what a consumer would like. Of course you are right that if there is a monopoly of one company than it is bad. But what if it was not under a company but goverment. I mean the streaming platform. But that would have it's own issues... hmm quite a pickle we are in. But if each studio had it's own site. You would need to subscribe to 20 sites. Which isn't perfect either. It's unrealistic to think that someone would pay more than 50 bucks for anime subscriptions. Cause in some countries they if you earn 400-500 bucks you are more than happy.
Maybe the solution would be to have one site has it all. But each studio would have it's rights and all depending on the quality of work. But that would push a lot onto animators. At the same time it would make the studios more likely to pick up more interesting stuff. Or maybe make a platform where all studios are together. Being under the goverment... But than the censoring issues..... No solution is perfect... And dividing it into ''kid'' and ''adult'' version won't help it...
There is a solution but I can't think of it.
But still I agree that in the end it is a service issue. In my country I can not even use Hi-Dive....
@@Kraxhor
UA-cam as usual hiding my replies. Ugh.
Point is: You would not need to subscribe to 20 sites.
Most people do not read or watch that much anime every week.
You can alternate services (i.e choice), and each service will be cheaper than one service that has them all.
Plus, because of competition, some of these sites will just do ads instead of subs to get subscribers.
Like Shonen Jump manga app is free for all new chapters.
But let me give you an example.
Disney, Netflix, HBO.
I like shows in all of these.
I do not watch show in all of these at the same time.
I only buy Disney when Star Wars shows are done. I pay for one month at a time, not for an entire year. Haven't used Disney since Ashoka came out a year ago.
HBO I only pay for whenever I have a cartoon I am interested on.
And Netflix is the one I pay for year round.
All in all, I am not subscribed to all of them at once.
Point is: Subscriptions can be turned on and off on demand.
You don't need to be subscribed year round to every service.
Have the companies actually compete for your subscription by providing a better service.
@leonmat26 valid point. But for the most part that is really similar to how it is currently. Just saying.
People better start archiving their favorite series just in case
Japan still hasn't completely gotten off of analog services, and has barely been using the cloud 😂
"the cloud" is literally just someone else's computer. You're not storing data in some nebulous computer dimension.
I'll always be King of the Pirates 🏴☠️🦜
Till the sky net comes online!😵😵😵😵😵
They can only arrest people who are in Japan or in regions where the representation offices are located. It is impossible to stop piracy entirely because it is decentralized, and many piracy platforms operate outside Japanese jurisdiction, making enforcement challenging. At best, they can block those pirated websites from appearing in their region's internet search results, but even then, new sites often emerge to replace those taken down, making it nearly impossible to eliminate piracy entirely.
Welp, might as well take out the entitery of Internet...
Ngl 2million on AI for this seems like it's not nearly sufficient to actually create and maintain such a system. Like even if they made the initial AI, the training data is going to instantly be outdated, because people will immediately shift how they're designing the sites to avoid the patterns that the AI detects...
Honestly all pirate sites having a screenshot of Crunchyroll would be funny as fuck. Or evil option nightshade some images.
The biggest problem I have is not having to pay for the Manga/Anime because I already pay for crunchyroll and buy paperback for manga. However, imo the biggest problem is manga/anime that's not available officially (a lot of them) e g. Kingdom my favorite manga of all time is only available on pirate websites from what I know
Even when things are officially available, 999 times out of a thousand it's butchered by localizers and thus no longer the same product.
@BloodrealmX Exactly. Additionally, without pirate websites companies will have the power to do whatever they want. Like how recent companies are making their subscriptions much more expensive and adding ads to lower tiers.
Both of you said it this are problem i also have with this site's anime you wanna watch is not there and there's also woke translation problem.
There are 2 official manga app in Play Store i know of manga plus don't have one punch man shonen jump has it.
but they don't have another manga i wanna read I would happily see 2 or 3 ad's to support creators but no option of that either.
Bruh they can use those 8 mil to pay their animators and the Manga artists/ author's.💀
Piracy is what made a lot of anime and manga popular to begin with...even crunchyroll used to be one
Then people need to learn they should pay the money now instead keep asking “Hey, why this is not season 2 yet?” or “hey, the animation of this season is not good enough”.
@KamiDionysus Oh I definitely agree with you, but one of the reasons people don't want crunchyroll is precisely because they want their money only to support the japanese series, many people don't want dubs or crunchyroll censoring out stuff they see problematic or finance original crunchyroll anime. The money frequently does not go where it needs to
@@AlisSpark Really? I want to know more about details, because I’m not western people and of course not a crunchcyroll user. Can you share your thought with me?
By the way, seems like more people prefer SUB more, right? I always think English DUB very cringe especially in slice of life anime.
@@KamiDionysus I've never used Crunchyroll, but I've somewhat seen the layout (it's not the best, and especially considering there aren't those amazing comment sections), and not to mention the many reacting channels complaining about its servers and whatnot (also subtitles can be weird). If Crunchyroll was better, I wouldn't complain about buying the subscription (although it's still a monopoly, and it's western, so I'll pass).
They're gonna make it worse
With the state of censorship and western mandates? Pirates will thrive in this chaos, despite the strict security.
Torrent isn’t just a magical steed in Elden Ring or a strong and fast-moving stream of water or liquid…arrrrrgh shiver me timbers
I swear people won't even pirate if they actually have ACCESS TO ANIME!!! AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S WORSE? CREDIT CARD COMPANIES THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OUR ACCESS TO WATCH YOUR ANIME IS ALSO KILLING YOUR ANIME NOW, SO GOOD JOB JAPAN.
Common service issues:
- overpriced $20/mo ad-free subscriptions
- no official dubbings or translations
- region/country-locked access
- no longer distributed/produced titles
To solve the issues, address the incentives.
Lol crunchyroll blocked comments
It pisses me off to no end that companies think they can remove bare minimum features then turn around and say that piracy is our fault.
If you want my money you have to earn it, you're not entitled to it just for having an exclusivity contract!!
If i didn't pirate and was capable of affording all the streaming services, i still wouldn't be able to watch in a legal way, half the anime i see every new season.
If i could Support the authors or studios directly, i 1000% would
Ai cant handle captcha right now
They need humans to figure it out
Chat gpt literally destroys captcha what are you talking about
@@rojetx8204 I destroy captchas too and get flagged as a robot because of that.
I have to be dead tired to be recognized as human.
@@rojetx8204 Do you really think ai can stop piracy haha
the absolute majority of anime fans (who heavily contribute to the current popularity of anime and manga) can't afford to watch anime or read manga legally,not only because they may not be able to afford it,but also due to the geographic limitations of payment systems . Anime is going to take a heavy hit and they will wonder where all the fans have gone.
Personally I can CAN afford it and I am NOT in a location with geographical issues.
I pirate most of my entertainment for two reasons:
1. Because I have far FAR more important things that my money needs to go towards than what I do in the evenings after work. I got bills to pay, food to buy and elderly family members to support.
2. In the instance of anime and manga, I REFUSE to give a cent of my money to the companies that bring anime and manga to my language officially and legally, because they are ALL utter dog shit.
0:15 oh! would you look at that, a check that would gatekeep the normies along with AI 🤣
Unfortunately I'd probably fail this. I can only confirm two girls since I watched Kill la Kill and Konosuba but I can confirm at least five boys.
The great pirate war begins.
THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!
Piracy always is a service problem.
If you fix the service, piracy goes down.
If you combat piracy instead, it just escalates.
0:52 if I hear "pirate-c" one more time! Imma *explodes*
He’s an idiot. You should hear some of the other stuff he says. He says for in place of so all the time! I don’t expect much. lol!
That captcha was hilarious, but idk if i could complete it
To quote Subaru "The strongest vs The invincible" 😅
I live in Malaysia, to buy 1 manga volume physically is around RM50 (about $10 for you guys and around 1700¥) looks cheap to you but very expensive for us. We have no proper anime channels on tv, heavily reliant on Netflix and Disney+ for mainstream anime, we have no way to watch obscure anime or read obscure manga.. And they want to combat piracy??
They need to fix the service problem first.
To watch the whole pokemon anime I need to have like 5 different streaming sites.
I don't want to just watch censored content.
And most importantly make shit available and affordable.
"PEOPLE DREAMS NEVER END" - A Certain Pirate
Piracy will never go away, there will always be new sites and people will always find a way around around it
They may try to take down the piracy websites, but these so called legal websites can never have old animes and retain it due to their license of it owning for only certain period of time.
Merit matters the most to never worry about pirating. Even if I were to pirate, if I enjoy the content, I buy the offline copy from the creator. Lars Ulrich is fine with that.
The irony is that if piratable anime and manga wasn't freely available online I don't think it would have gotten as popular as it has worldwide
Forget year of the prude, its also year of the anime fan hate sigh it never ends…
A lot of manga on the pirate sites are fan translations of manga without official Eng translations. Loosing access to those sites will actually hurt the managa market since its a basically an ad for when official translations are made.
One of the main issues I have with legitimate manga and anime streaming services is that you don’t actually own the content; you're essentially renting access. Once a manga or anime leaves the platform, you can't continue to watch or download it. In contrast, one of the best features of piracy sites is the comments section, which legal streaming services often lack. This is especially true for anime streaming platforms, though it's less of an issue for manga sites. Another problem is that with legal platforms, you usually need to subscribe to multiple services just to access all the anime you want, whereas piracy sites don’t have licensing restrictions.
Personally, I don’t mind buying physical books to support manga creators, but I don’t use Blu-rays or DVDs anymore. I prefer having everything in digital form because it lasts longer and doesn’t get lost or damaged unless you're careless. I just wish it was more like Steam or mobile apps-once you've downloaded a game or app, even if it's later removed from the store, you still own the product.
Spend 2 million on building an ai system to combat piracy rather than build a system where people can watch anime without needing 10 services to watch anything you want.
Extremely out of touch Japan as usual
But if we can't pirate it, we can't have it. Our lives are over if that happens.
This is a similar issue to what the west had with music industry where we had stuff like itunes, Pandora and Spotify showing up as an alternative to buying a CD and cassette tapes and it caused a lot of major artists to go on strike. But I think will become a lot more common as companies start lagging behind because they will fail to stop piracy because they can't stop the progression of technology and automation of every industry
The reason anime and Manga exploded higher is because major Hollywood and major comic book titles have become woke trash. Anime and manga is far, far more entertaining.
Being an industry valued at 28 billions of dollars, shouldn't the japanese government focus in matters like, the way investors get all of the distribution and copy rights. So the studios don't benefit financially and in turn neither do the animators, even if it's a big hit overseas and makes a lot of money.
Anime wouldnt have become so Popular without pirating. They should be greatful for that
Another issue is not every anime streaming app has every anime you may want to watch and who wants to buy multiple subscriptions just to be able to watch all the anime you want?
Question: If piracy is fully countered, will the animators get payed better or worst? Will it improve the animation quality than what happened to Blue Luck and 7 Deadly Sins 😅
The only problem I have is there are Animes that you can’t find or is nearly inaccessible through proper methods. These websites preserve legacy content that are otherwise lost.
Just create a platform for viewing outside of Japan. There needs to be a Japan based platform that is made widely available. For foreigners we have to pay for several subscriptions just to watch anime, and even then, they dont have everything you can find on a pirated site.
Seriously such a big market for it japan needs it own presence we getting screwed by the middleman
Maybe they should address the mass censorship and the lack of manga translations?
Somebody protect manga pirate sites.
I mean piracy wouldn't be as big an issue as it is if the companies that hosted anime and manga wasn't ran by people who hated us and trys to push propaganda through them and or makes shitty deals that benefits no one but the company itself and screws customers over.
Also if their website wasnt cancer to pilot through is a big one.
It just feels to me like wasted effort. They should instead focus on improving their streaming services. To give an example, my little brother is a huge One Piece fan. But because he can't speak Japanese or English, the only way he can watch the anime is through pirate sites. Ultimately, it is what it is. Even I sail the 7 seas because not all anime I want to watch are on Crunchyroll.
We must stand together and stop them from taking away our sites. ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
I was a kid when i watched anime and manga. No way in hell i can pay for it when i was young. Now i am paying or supporting it now
Japan's legal system is just painful sometimes...
You know what would be funny....If Pirate sites start to imitate crunchy rolls layout
the pirate sites have better layout than crunch shit.
I blame this on the leakers
This. No idea why those idiots decided to do that.
They're nothing but snitches. Traitors to the pirates code.
@@Delimon007 They want attention, so they leak useless information that nobody actually cares about, but since it's not known information people pay attention to it.
Legit! it's like a domino effect now
How about they make it so that paying for stuff is actually more convenient than not paying? Not paying for stuff is actually a better consumer experience, both in quality and availability of content.
Please do a video on the new bleach rebirth of souls coming up! 🙂