Sony is reportedly in talks to buy Crunchyroll for nearly $1 billion

Aew4life · Nov 2, 2020

Bladexdsl said:
rip crunchyroll soon to be censoredroll

I use funimation personally its more suited to me

UltraSUPRA · Nov 2, 2020

Crunchyroll is free?

sarkwalvein · Nov 2, 2020

UltraSUPRA said:
Crunchyroll is free?

What kind of free?
Ad-free? Nope.
Latest episode free? Nope.
HD resolution for free? Nope.
But it is free. Unless you pay. For those things.

MiiJack · Nov 2, 2020

FAST6191 said:
Did Microsoft pull the trigger or was it the RIAA? The main complaint I saw was from the music peeps. MS just owned the source code site and had to do the DMCA response part.

I don't remember, I was confused about why it was MS and not YT who killed the source code.

FAST6191 · Nov 2, 2020

MiiJack said:
I don't remember, I was confused about why it was MS and not YT who killed the source code.

If MS own the hosting platform (which is all github is) then they are duty bound to remove it following a DMCA complaint lest they in turn become a publisher of the material and thus open to be sued. If they are just a hoster of things, aka a platform in parlance of the DMCA, then they are not open to be sued -- for as stupid as much of the DMCA is they did at least realise that having your hosts sued for stuff they did not necessarily know was on their servers makes it unworkable.
Equally while youtube might be wronged in a sense they a) have money , b) have an agreement with the music industry (it was quite famous when it was struck, mostly for being one sided and likely to lead to exactly what we see today on the copyright front) and c) are in some ways much like suing bit torrent when it is in fact just a distribution network. Youtube-dl is a small open source project that necessarily bypasses some protection means (even if only fig leaf strong).

To that end the RIAA, who can at least pretend to be the wronged party, sent a notice to Microsoft (who these days own github where it was hosted) who were in turn duty bound to shutter that account/site if they wished to continue acting as a platform (which they very much do).

TheGodMauro · Nov 2, 2020

Maybe a lawyer can clear things up, but aren't there supposed to be anti-monopoly laws in place so that single corporations won't own everything under the sun? (In this case, Sony already owns another anime streaming service iirc).
I'd be nice if someone with expertise in the area could explain what is the breaking point when a company starts to be legally considered a monopoly.

FAST6191 · Nov 2, 2020

TheGodMauro said:
Maybe a lawyer can clear things up, but aren't there supposed to be anti-monopoly laws in place so that single corporations won't own everything under the sun? (In this case, Sony already owns another anime streaming service iirc).
I'd be nice if someone with expertise in the area could explain what is the breaking point when a company starts to be legally considered a monopoly.

Monopolies, mergers and anti trust type setups vary wildly even within the same country as time goes on.
I can't see this being anywhere near such a thing though -- anime is just a style of video and there a million different video streaming services and platforms, some of which even create and commission their own stuff that falls under the banner of anime (how much has netflix done so far? Hulu? Amazon has a bit as well I believe...).

So even if someone snapped their fingers and at the stroke of midnight Sony owns Crunchyroll are anime companies going to have to bow down to Sony as the only place to get their works out by? Are Sony going to be able to dictate terms? Are they going to be able to truly punish companies for going to Cartoon Network or Netflix...

HarveyHouston · Nov 2, 2020

I've never really been a big manga or dorama fan, but there are plenty of people that are - heck, I've conversed with several of them. Sony's purchase of this company may change the Japanese industry.

stanleyopar2000 · Nov 3, 2020

TheGodMauro said:
Maybe a lawyer can clear things up, but aren't there supposed to be anti-monopoly laws in place so that single corporations won't own everything under the sun? (In this case, Sony already owns another anime streaming service iirc).
I'd be nice if someone with expertise in the area could explain what is the breaking point when a company starts to be legally considered a monopoly.

Corporate oversight in the United States. LOL that's a good one.

vaugerbird · Nov 3, 2020

Aew4life said:
I use funimation personally its more suited to me

I don't know if I'm missing the point or not, but you do know funimation is owned by Sony, right?

Aew4life · Nov 3, 2020

vaugerbird said:
I don't know if I'm missing the point or not, but you do know funimation is owned by Sony, right?

Actually no I didn't lol

ertaboy356b · Nov 4, 2020

All that PS4 money gone to shit.

driverdis · Nov 4, 2020

I really hope Crunchyroll won’t drop Detective Conan if Sony buys them. FUNimation dropped them years ago and it took a long long time of fan subs that don’t make any money to get an actual licensed subtitled version.

Vila_ · Nov 5, 2020

I think this is a good thing as it will make anime pirating websites more popular... gg sony

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