One of the only legal streaming sites for anime was hacked (again), and companies wonder why people resort to piracy?
One of the only legal streaming sites for anime was hacked (again), and companies wonder why people resort to piracy?
On Jan 23, 2025, an account on X published a list of login details for multiple Crunchyroll Premium accounts.
I don't think this is a major "this is why people pirate". Pirate sites also regularly get cracked (possibly more often the the average streaming service). It isn't like bank details were leaked here so the only real difference is that in some pirate sites you don't need a login at all.
Who logs into a pirate site, though? Who gives them their financial information?
As a crunchyroll subscriber, this fucking sucks. They are not doing their jobs.
Crunchyroll came from piracy, never felt right paying for it
Or…people pirate because they can. Let’s not take some sort of moral high ground here. I’m all for preserving lost media, but come on now. Just
owndownload it.Convenience is another important part of piracy, logging into 30+ subscriptions to watch 8 different shows is not fun. It’s just faster too.
I saw a link on Lemmy to a “GoG” clone on which you can download all games for free.
Like of all the places not to pirate I would assume the company that enforces no DRM, direct downloads that you can save indefinitely and that makes older games work on newer hardware, would be on the top of that list.
Since those are such common complaints on why to pirate.
Next to that they have deals often where the prices are already really low.
Competing with free is near impossible.
If anybody is curious about what that "GoG clone" is: gog-games.to
Unclear whether they were hacked. A followup says:
We [Crunchyroll] have […] investigated the situation, and determined that there is no evidence that Crunchyroll’s systems have been compromised
They may have been fished.