1008
Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
(fandomwire.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
1008 points (98.0% liked)
Technology
76008 readers
2851 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
why not just pirate shit without a noble cause for once? You know - the old fashioned way
Impossible.
Piracy is always noble.
quiet.
Perfection
Fuckin wish I pirated this turd.
i liked it.
what are the good sources nowadays...been out of the game for awhile and it's to trust any sites promoted on any mainstreamish social networks.
like freemediaheckyeah, old reddit hub...is that still good?
ime every pirate source had 50/50 shot of turning into some virus/scam honeypot shortly after reaching high enough popularity
nyaa. Just look for a currently active Nyaa torrent site for anime. There's several.
I just bookmark the piracy megathread/wiki thingy, lemmy/reddit (backup). For streaming, I would probably recommend hydra, it's really all the same but that site has "auto-next" which I prefer. There was one site I used to enjoy that was just better than any streaming platform I've paid for, skip intro, skip credits (would even detect after credit scenes), subtitles in all languages and audio tracks even commentary, quick responsive high quality loading of any media your mind can remember. They went after it hard and I haven't seen a proper iteration since (every clone slowly lost features as they were whack-a-moling).
For downloading, they're really all crappy (several link hoops to jump through) and hit or miss (for quality and selection you can't beat the ease of a torrent unfortunately). You can find what you want eventually but the difference in hassle is just crazy.
i used to stream pirated some shows and a movie last decade, then they took down all those sites, i dont download.
Fmhy ✅
I mean, I basically just download anything that's not an executable. So if its a video, audio, pdf, epub, etc... I don't worry about it. Its very rare for an updated system to get infected from a random .mkv.
I just use (https://fmhy.net/torrenting) one of the torrenting aggregators because its the most comprehensive search, I found an anime that I couldn't find anywhere else because there are dead torrents with no seeders everywhere else I looked.
I pretty much just use 1337x.
You can get the Evangellion dub off of internet archive, found that out a couple of days ago cause bored.
https://fmhy.lol/ Free Media Heck Yea has loads of free content across tons of topics listed.
no idea, man. I'm just a poser)
Old Fashioned Pirates were poor people treated like shit by their society lashing out at the system of oppression.
give it a couple of years and it would match just right