| Crunchyroll announced that they will discontinue the Download-to-Own service on March 31st. According to Anime Nation, CEO of Crunchyroll explained that they are focusing on the simulcast business. Sources: Crunchyroll, Anime Nation Story by kashim |
dtshykMar 12, 2010 3:03 AM
| I think they want to avoid potential lawsuits and the troublesome administrative tasks regarding copyrights and stuff. |
| I saw that on ANN this morning. I never used their DTO service, but from what I heard, that's not something to regret. |
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| Eh, I swore off Crunchyroll about a year ago. Seriously, someone should strike a deal with Apple to get subbed anime episodes on iTunes, like regular TV. They can probably sell 'em cheap, since the Japanese companies (for the most part) don't give a hoot about the Western market. Plus, people'll buy stuff they can get for free, if it's cheap and convenient enough — win/win. |
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| Maybe this also shows that people only watch anime once. Few series are worth owning and rewatching anyway. |
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| meh!.. who cares about crunchyroll.. my love for crunchyroll, died down ages ago.. |
| Lol Crunchyroll. Anything that is crunchyroll I just try to avoid at no what cost. Because always there will be a fansub group that does better than them. Crunchyroll is just like all the fansub groups out there, its just that they actually have enough money to license stuff, but don't give a hoot about how the subs look. Ex: Hayate no Gotoku!!, Crunchyroll - SD, no signs vs. SS-Eclipse - HD, good looking font, signs are tl'd. Your choice. |
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| Hmmm, not like they where sooo cool to download, like you say cheiftain, just any other subber cares more for his work and tries to make it look good. I can only thank crunchy roll for galactic express 999, only that. Other than that, never will see it again. |
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| well i don't really care abut it cause i really don't watch anime on on it often |
| It's not like all the series they have are DTO. So long as they keep on streaming the shows I watch then I'm satisfied with that. |
| My brain: Yorozuya Gin-chan -> Yozakura Quartet = Yorozuya Quartet (this is how much Gintama has affected me). |
| yer back b4 it went official bad career move i say |
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| and nothing of value was lost. |
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| I stopped going to Crunchyroll god knows how long ago. I hated having to wait extra time to watch stuff that premium users could watch as soon as it was uploaded. Not to mention I never downloaded from them anyways. I hate their subs too. They're gross looking. |
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Aishia said: Maybe this also shows that people only watch anime once. Few series are worth owning and rewatching anyway. It shows that if a series is worth rewatching/owning, people will just wait for a dvd release. |
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| hahaha. well, it won't bother since they are not the only site that provide dwl. |
| Crunchy's digging it's own grave... |
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| I didn't knew Crunchyrool has such service. XD They're not even worth worrying about. There are way better subbers out there with good looking subs and that don't restrict the users from watching their vids when they're from outside the US. |
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| Eh? What is Crunchyroll? XD |
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| Cool story. Not gonna lie, if CR died tomorrow and simply disappeared form the world it would probably be one of the best days to be an anime fan ever. They're taking whats valuable right from our hands and feeding it to low tier idiots, they're slapping a brand on it and selling it, disregarding the fanbase that was built around freedom of distribution and good will, stepping on the people who built their empire, their near monopoly of 'stimucasted' anime. And would you like to know the worst part? We're just lying down and taking it. /immature rant, I'll be quiet now. |
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Packard20 said: Cool story. Not gonna lie, if CR died tomorrow and simply disappeared form the world it would probably be one of the best days to be an anime fan ever. They're taking whats valuable right from our hands and feeding it to low tier idiots, they're slapping a brand on it and selling it, disregarding the fanbase that was built around freedom of distribution and good will, stepping on the people who built their empire, their near monopoly of 'stimucasted' anime. And would you like to know the worst part? We're just lying down and taking it. /immature rant, I'll be quiet now. Ya except Crunchyroll is licensed by the anime industry where as fan subs are out of good will and are potentially illegal. Crunchyroll took something that was in high demand and made it into a business. They didn't take anything valuable from you. As for them removing download to own...this could hurt sub groups like horriblesubs or crunchysubs that just download the episodes from Crunchyroll and release them on BitTorrent. We might be saying goodbye to those series that real sub groups drop but horriblesubs picks up. Not to mention those series that never get licensed and no groups ever finish subbing. You'll be forced to browse Crunchy's site and deal with their choppy ass flash player. |
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DeathfireD said: Packard20 said: Cool story. Not gonna lie, if CR died tomorrow and simply disappeared form the world it would probably be one of the best days to be an anime fan ever. They're taking whats valuable right from our hands and feeding it to low tier idiots, they're slapping a brand on it and selling it, disregarding the fanbase that was built around freedom of distribution and good will, stepping on the people who built their empire, their near monopoly of 'stimucasted' anime. And would you like to know the worst part? We're just lying down and taking it. /immature rant, I'll be quiet now. Ya except Crunchyroll is licensed by the anime industry where as fan subs are out of good will and are potentially illegal. Crunchyroll took something that was in high demand and made it into a business. They didn't take anything valuable from you. As for them removing download to own...this could hurt sub groups like horriblesubs or crunchysubs that just download the episodes from Crunchyroll and release them on BitTorrent. We might be saying goodbye to those series that real sub groups drop but horriblesubs picks up. Not to mention those series that never get licensed and no groups ever finish subbing. You'll be forced to browse Crunchy's site and deal with their choppy ass flash player. hooray, we found one smart person who knows how bad this situation is. and we know some group don't want to pick the title crunchy have... so as we pray... UNLIMITED FAGGING-FOR-SUBS WORKS !!! |
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| I don't like Crunchyroll I don't care about it >_> |
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| lol that wont stop horrible subs theres a thing called stream ripping |
| I signed my screen and now its all smeary "When you meet your God tell him to leave me alone." check out my bloghttp://corpse69.wordpress.com/ fix MAL already |
| i used to like CR, when they have music and drama video section, but now the music erased, anime and drama also reduced. T_T it is really hard to maintain keep legal for streaming site. i just think CR age is not gonna be long. |
| Hm... I actually stopped going on Crunchyroll when all that stuff happened and they removed all the good stuff D: Legal sites suck. |
| For all I care CR can just disappear :3 |
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| I watch Series more than one time, but i never go on crunchyroll i avoid that site :O |
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| I have a question. How will certain fansub groups (mainly HorribleSubs and CrunchySubs) be able to continue to rip CrunchyRoll's videos after this service goes away? As for my opinion on this news, I think it sucks, especially for people who have slow PCs/Laptops and therefore can't watch videos online via web browsers. Downloading the videos makes it a whole lot better for them, especially if they can play the videos just fine via media players that don't require an internet connection in order to play downloaded videos. |
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| This could be potentially bad... |
| Haruhi = Win! |
| Anime News Network Link: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-03-10/crunchyroll-ends-its-download-to-own-service |
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| I didn't even know they had such service. o_O |
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Packard20 said: +10000Cool story. Not gonna lie, if CR died tomorrow and simply disappeared form the world it would probably be one of the best days to be an anime fan ever. They're taking whats valuable right from our hands and feeding it to low tier idiots, they're slapping a brand on it and selling it, disregarding the fanbase that was built around freedom of distribution and good will, stepping on the people who built their empire, their near monopoly of 'stimucasted' anime. And would you like to know the worst part? We're just lying down and taking it. /immature rant, I'll be quiet now. CR really did ruin a lot. It'd be one thing if they actually did a good job and put effort in, but they don't. |
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| Ah..they're also removing the chat server. lulz. |
| They should just remove their existence and everyone will be happy again. |
| I understand the hate revolving around Crunchyroll. I dont really like them myself but you have to give it them for providing the streaming service that they do. Crunchyroll has really expanded anime to many people around the world. I would say if Crunchyroll went down a majority of people who used to watch anime would have no idea of how to watch their shows anymore. Yes CrunchyRoll subs are nothing compared to a quality fansub group like Eclipse. But hey its not like you are gonna watch their subs for all the shows they do. Its about picking and choosing. If their is a distinguishable fansub group that is doing watch theirs but if there isnt go ahead and watch Crunchyroll subs. I watch their versions all the time because it is good enough for me since more than not i will probably never archive the shows they have licensed. Btw when i mean watch Crunchyroll subs i mean watch Horriblesubs or any other rip group ; ) Also this news wont hurt any of those groups because they dont get the subs from that service they rip them. |
| Crunchyroll before was nice which was a few years back until they changed there website, for me they can completely disappear now <3 go go do it do it^_^ |
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| Never heard, went or even DL from that site so i dont give a damn about it. |
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JadeMatrix said: Eh, I swore off Crunchyroll about a year ago. Seriously, someone should strike a deal with Apple to get subbed anime episodes on iTunes, like regular TV. They can probably sell 'em cheap, since the Japanese companies (for the most part) don't give a hoot about the Western market. Plus, people'll buy stuff they can get for free, if it's cheap and convenient enough — win/win. Knowing Apple they will probably sell each episode at the same price as the TV shows they already have. |
| Crunchyroll is good for watching older episodes (no subscription required), since they do have better quality than others, otherwise they can go die for all I care. |
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| crunchyroll-over-and-die. |
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| I was expecting this to come eventually, so it's no surprise here. I never really used it anyway. |
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