Will anime piracy every die out on the open web?

It'll stay. For every 1 site shut down, you have about 10 replacements popping up.

Honestly, the only piracy site i remember regularly using that got shut down was KissAnime, the rest of my favorites are still up and i genuienly don't see them going anywhere

Very recently Japan announced they were gonna make use of AI to detect & shut down anime piracy sites. Funniest part is they'll only invest $2m into the project, which is little to nothing given how complex the piracy world is. I think piracy will forever prevail, not just within anime

No. It would only die out if companies stopped hiring localizers that hate Japan. Reminder that if you pirate your animu to purchase merchandise of the shows to support the animation studios.

Anime piracy is the reason anime is still alive.

All it would take to end all of these piracy sites, is this:
put up EVERYTHING and run ads.

But because of their own incompetence, greed, etc, that won't happen, and it will always continue.
It's literally as Gabe says, "piracy is a service issue, not a pricing one"

You can buy a membership to all of the streaming services you want, but you'll still be missing shows.
You'll be dealing with the worlds slowest interface, lag, horrible players, bad subs, buffering, and more.

Meanwhile, on pirate site, everything works flawlessly, it never buffers, you can watch hard to find stuff, and you can actually navigate the site at a reasonable speed.

If it was not for piracy, anime would not be even remotely as big as it is (outside of Japan anyways, I have no idea how their internal piracy stats are) — which actually brings up a more interesting point.

If anime piracy was ever culled, the anime industry would stand to lose A LOT of money. Merch sales, figures, box sets, games, hell— even tourism.
An absolutely non-trivial amount of money has been spent on Japan as a whole because of people's exposure to anime by watching it easily and illegally.

All it would take to end all of these piracy sites, is this:
put up EVERYTHING and run ads.

But because of their own incompetence, greed, etc, that won't happen, and it will always continue.
It's literally as Gabe says, "piracy is a service issue, not a pricing one"

You can buy a membership to all of the streaming services you want, but you'll still be missing shows.
You'll be dealing with the worlds slowest interface, lag, horrible players, bad subs, buffering, and more.

Meanwhile, on pirate site, everything works flawlessly, it never buffers, you can watch hard to find stuff, and you can actually navigate the site at a reasonable speed.

If it was not for piracy, anime would not be even remotely as big as it is (outside of Japan anyways, I have no idea how their internal piracy stats are) — which actually brings up a more interesting point.

If anime piracy was ever culled, the anime industry would stand to lose A LOT of money. Merch sales, figures, box sets, games, hell— even tourism.
An absolutely non-trivial amount of money has been spent on Japan as a whole because of people's exposure to anime by watching it easily and illegally.

And you think the dark webs is actually "safe" from the Feds/governments? No, it is not. For obvious reasons.

@DesuMaiden I didn't mention dark web, sites I am talking about can be found on open web no problem

@Cammell well, you were implying in your opening post that anime piracy has to migrate from the open web to the dark webs eventually. Correct?

But here is the thing, sometimes these streaming services are in the production committee themselves.
So some anime pirates want to avoid giving money to woke companies like Crunchyroll, but then they go on to buy merch from a show Crunchyroll helped produce, and in the end they literally gave CR some money.

But that's the thing, streaming companies WILL see the money from merch sales if they are in the production comittee, which is something that many streaming services do.