What do you think of piracy?

Then your argument is moot because it's back on the platform. No real lasting damage done. Making a complaint about nothing at this point. Still not a good excuse to resort to piracy, if things were corrected in your Prime example.


If one is not actually purchasing anything anymore, they cease to be a paying customer. One is simply just choosing to take shit for free that normally cost money when resorting to piracy and nothing more.


You are welcome to your own opinion, I was simply just pointing out how extremely absurd your argument here was.


This is easier said then done. If it was so easy you could easily tell us your multitude of ways to increase revenue without being a crappy service provider to indefinitely deter Anime piracy? Feel free to take the time to enlighten everyone on this? This is a bold claim without providing "how". It's like someone advocating to abolished a popular healthcare policy plan that many people rely on only to have no plan or even details revealed on what would happen after it's successfully repealed and what would replace it.

You really haven't even revealed why exactly you personally resort to piracy. What was so bad that happened to you personally that made you simply think Legit streaming services were just complete shit now? It would be interesting to hear your personal story.

You got exactly what you wanted back, I would called that service when you yourself before conceded the removal of content was legal under EULA. What the fuck else were you expecting? Someone from Sony to come to your house and give you a blowjob and a cookie as well? lol


No, that's not what I think is happening. You are literally going to another place that is illegitimately ripping the proprietary content straight from a legitimate site that you originally left in the guise of feeling you have been wronged. Even if you were "wronged", you really feel you are entitled indefinitely to this content for free?


Not everything has always been available everywhere. It's not only idealistic but unrealistic to think any legit streaming platform will ever offer everything either. Even if they did, you would suddenly get Users complaining about there being a monopoly. Even so, why should fans of this medium think they are entitled to all and everything ever released simply because it exists?

Either way all the suggestions you have made would not deter piracy in the least.

Even if they reduced their subscriptions to 1USD a month, I doubt suddenly you would start to see Users who pirate suddenly start signing up to legitimate streaming sites.

One time view rentals has already been done to death and it's a failed business model. Many have tired this in the past and lost revenue investing in these types of models.

Allow old content to be accessible is unrealistic because most platforms do not actually own the content, they are simply licensing them. Which is why fans really should be investing in physical media when they can if they wish to watch older Anime titles.

Even a partnership between competitors would just be seen as a monopoly no matter how they try to be perceived as being completely separate entities.



According to you they corrected their mistake, You just chose to leave them without giving them another chance. You have simply resorted to piracy based on a fictitious notion they will simply screw you over again. You ask if piracy seems justified if one has been scammed? No, that's not justice that's just simply one resorting to illegally obtaining the same content ripped off their site just so one can get it for free.

An analogy to your example would be like getting a gym membership somewhere that accidently revoked your subscription early only for their mistake to be corrected later. So you decide to resort to going back one day and stealing all their gym equipment so you can use it at your leisure indefinitely somewhere else.



Yes it's obviously futile to continue this debate, The one thing I can totally agree on here.

Either way there really should be no excuses to justify limitless entitlement to all and any Anime that exists, doesn't matter what excuses one comes up with. It all boils down to just excuses to consume Anime for free. Resorting to piracy is just plain and simple theft.

Same reason people think they're entitled to stare out at the ocean simply because it exists. Or to listen to birdsong simply because it exists.

People need a reason to embark on a vow of cultural poverty. All you've got to offer is a false comparison that a five year old could see through. You need to offer them an afterlife with 57 virgins or something.

@DreamWindow I agree more or less with you in everything. However, its also true that piracy itself, without any further definition of "piracy", it has some negative effects.

It also depends on the market. Piracy in anime is same than Piracy in academic writing or literature? Also we need to check out how the economics work, for centuries, and still in todays world, creators of content do not get all what they "maybe should deserve", the market is dominated by big companies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSstYb-xmTs Just watched this video, gives some info!

Beyond the false equivalency and disregarding quoting my statement out of context from what this question was even originally referring to, this kind of reply only reinforces why there is this culture of unprecedented entitlement specifically when it comes to Anime. People simply don't think they have to pay for stuff that normally cost money to consume.

Piracy is the main cause for this erosion of mental thinking where a Users will purposely compare Anime to the Ocean as a ridiculous means to justify their piracy habits.

As an example, It would be priceless to see a User who has Hideaki Anno on their MAL favorites to be randomly confronted face to face in person with and see how they would react when told this User likely simply resorts to piracy to consume most of all the Anime they have put their hard work into. I would imagine Hideaki Anno would tell them to get the fuck out of their face.

@logopolis

Is that all you wanted is an apology? Dude, I am so sorry! That make you feel better?

Still, I doubt Hideaki Anno would care if you claim to have bought Anime before. Hideaki Anno would likely look down on anyone who advocates Anime piracy as a practice and I wouldn't blame them. I doubt anyone who works in the industry would look highly on those who resort to piracy to consume Anime. It completely devalues the hard work they put into these projects.



Yeah, I deleted the post because it obviously must have hurt your feelings.