discussion Anime, to pirate or not to pirate?

[chocolate52]

Always pirate

 

[Joesilvestri]

Pirate, streaming services and library splitting just isn't very reliable

 

[P.M.G]

Pirate. We plunder just to watch anime.

 

[Sadfruit30]

Pirate, don't think it's worth paying.

 

[Republican Bear]

Fun fact the supposed legal paid sites are often lacking content most pirates sites stream for free.

Just use an adblock otherwise on boy you'll get hundreds of popups.

 

[Waylight]

Don't think anyone using a site like LC can say pirate, or maybe a little of both.
I pay for my sports streaming, but with movies, music and games my morals slip.

 

[Republican Bear]

Don't think anyone using a site like LC can say pirate, or maybe a little of both.
I pay for my sports streaming, but with movies, music and games my morals slip.

Sport pirate streaming is always a tossup. The good ones want money and the better free ones keep getting seized.

Classic cable sucks even worse as they only stream free local games unless you pay for your team.

 

[Waylight]

Sport pirate streaming is always a tossup. The good ones want money and the better free ones keep getting seized.

Classic cable sucks even worse as they only stream free local games unless you pay for your team.

I'm kind of lucky in a way living in a small country, our Sky Sports doesn't really have any competition, so they cover just about everything we need.
Monthly sub is pretty high as a result of that though.

 

[Whazzup]

I pay for crunchyroll and streaming services that offer anime. The reasoning for me is simple:

If you earn enough money to spare a few bucks a month: Pay for streaming.
If you don't earn enough (for example if you're a student or unemployed): Pirate it.

 

[berrymccockner]

this spread makes perfect sense and I think it represents the broader trend beyond LC.

 

[User_198006]

i have crunchyroll netflix and amazon but ill always also pirate it, there are so many great animes that arent available on mainstream streaming services so its not like theres anything else i can do to watch them.

 

[One Shot]

I have netflix and amazon Videos so if they have it in there, I watch them, I dont mind pirating tho, If I really want to watch something and I cannot find it normally, I may cross over

 

[JadedSkywalker]

Amazon, the only first run show I know of is the new Ghost in the Shell. the animation style takes getting used to.

 

[jenson33]

I just pirate everything tbh. Screw big corporations.

Also...

Pop Step doesn't have the stockings in the manga! What the heeeeck! That's so hot. She's also hot with them but... bare ass!

 

[JadedSkywalker]

With whole Sony debacle I think Anime and physical media collecting is dead. Pay nearly 30 dollars a month just to use their store. Wanting to end physical media in 2028. Reducing the number of blu-rays for anime, pulling all the Manga. This after they took over Rightstuf and destroyed it, took over Nozomi and killed it. Took over Funimation and closed it. Pushed everything to streaming on their awful Crunchyroll service. Ending physical games on PlayStation. Near daily log ins required to not have your account scrubbed. I warned about Sony being another monopoly. Everyone said they'll put profits ahead of upsetting the apple cart. They'll never end physical people buy those. They'll just raise the prices. Well now we have the worst of all worlds. The beginning was the censorship and sjw politics being inserted into films, manga and anime, and video games.