In my country if you BUY the official stuff it's often times more expensive than say buying a full box set of a top notch series(for example I can buy Star Trek TNG as a whole for 60, just as an example buying demon slayer season 1(which is 12 episodes) as 3 episodes per box priced each at 22. Pricing is kind of insane. And giving money to Crunchyroll? I'd rather buy the manga, buy merch etc to support instead of giving money to people who not only hate my guts but also use money for BS like high guardian spice.
This is why normies don't belong on the internet. Sonarr is a godsend compared to what we had before and they don't even realize what they're passing up.
tl;dr: It watches RSS feeds, passes the torrents on to your downloader of choice. Will handle upgrading to higher resolutions if a better upgrade come along along with renaming, etc.. You have it dump into the same directory that Plex/Jellyfin is watching and you've got your own personal streaming service. There's an equivalent for movies: https://radarr.video and also ones for music/books/porn.
He's talking about microsd storage for mobile devices, not solid state drive storage (which is wasteful for media drives).
The amount of memory stacked on those tiny things is incredible to an oldfag - you can get half tb storage in a slice of plastic the size of a pinky nail.
Don't have to find compatible sub file, don't have to look for quality, don't have to worry about hardcoded subs, viruses, and the time it would take to download 6 - 30Episode seasons.
Not being about to browse content and watch the first episode to see if you like it, reading people's reactions to episode and general seasons.
Tell me why would you ever torrent if you could stream it?
generally speaking, you just have to use a halfway decent torrent site (speaking of...is pirate bay still around? it's been a while...), and the comments will tell you before you even touch the magnet link whether it's worth your time or not.
Now, granted, you have to be able to spot legit vs bs comments (hint: you can't just see a tl;dr comment and assume it's legit, you have to actually read through it and gage the info according to the content of the text wall)
all I'm saying is dont assume a text wall is legit.
for instance, if the comments go into detail about problems with the rip, subs, etc., and there are other comments that corroborate (without being straight up copypasta), you can usually gage.
if the comments (if any) are generally favorable, it's usually a worthwhile torrent.
? Yea obviously but that's rare that people make a wall of text.
What's your point?
I think you dont understand mine...I said most torrents do not have comments.
And you responded with something besides my point so I'm confused. .I never even implied I assume comments are ALL legit. Just that they can be helpful
Heard it from here and he says the same thing as me, it's a service issue because streaming services have a WORSE UI and service for anime than pirate sites.
The bad thing now is finding new ones again, I was using Aniwave to watch Oshi no Ko so that's going to be a bitch for a day to get an as reliable site.
It's not even the UI at this point. CR for example, got rid of comment sections because they released a yaoi anime and customers were being "homophobic". These people hate you and you don't hate them enough
I think it was even more that it has become a sport on CR to spot the low-effort bargain subs they're farming there lately. One-pass machine translation without so much as a sanity check getting slapped on big series (and many small ones). We were mere days into the embarrassment that was the first episodes of My Deer Friend when they pulled the plug on the whole thing.
Can't notice bad subs when others aren't saying it in the comments to confirm your suspicion.
Which leads to the problem of why aren't the anime rippers seeing this problem? Why haven't fan subs made a return after the stupid stunts CR have pulled? Most anime fans don't want CR subs. I'm sure a third of those know enough Japanese to create subs. Hell, give me the translated texts and I'll create the subs.
Fansubbers only bother if Crunchyroll's crimes are so egregious they can't be ignored, like making Nagatoro say sus. With animes on Hidive you can just politely email them and explain what the localizers are defacing and Hidive goes ahead and fixes it themselves.
Original release Crunchyroll, back when it hosted the same fansubs and pirated anime as everyone else, famously had completely fucked audio on everything. And rarely could you get it above 480p on most shows despite Youtube uploads usually having better than that.
The fact that it managed to become the "face" of anime streaming just shows that if you cater to pedos hard enough and have the money anything is possible.
Not just anime. Some of the biggest general film and TV streaming sites have gone down in the past few days as well. Fmovies and all of its related sites went down a couple months ago, and now there's another wave.
I clicked half a dozen random titles from random genres I found in the genre menu. They all worked and loaded fast.
The 'fake clones' still being around shows how easy a problem this is to solve and how this really should be an unwinnable battle for the rights holders, if there's any assertiveness in the community. Reason being, all the files are still hosted on 3rd party uploaders and the links are presumably in some database or xml or whatever. The fake sites are just pointing to the same files the original used to. There's hundreds of thousands of individual uploads to deal with. That takedown battle takes a lot of effort and is a digital forever-war, so copyright attack dogs go to the links aggregator which is 9anime. Which is a site that can always be replaced, even if it's with what was the inferior choice up until now, but that 'inferiority' becomes a 'glass missing some water' vs 'glass almost 100% full' perspective question. Ofc those links need maintaining in the longer term, so the sooner a trustworthy steward takes over the intermediary role, the better...
Yeah it's sad for the zoomies who are more concerned about their anime library and disqus comments or whatever, but tbh it was arguably unwise to make any kind of personal profile even on the original 9anime, given what just happened.
Praise the sketchy russian copied version of the websites!
Strictly speaking, they're simply copyright infringing Aniwave, it's pure pirate-on-pirate action. If you steal from a thief, you did not steal from the original owner of the object, and we know how much these companies like to pretend their "digital licenses" are real-world physical limited objects.
It's server side. Unless they use a country that says fuck you to US laws. For a long time flies have been checked. Self serving doesn't solve everything because everything at the address would be included in the warrent. Big tech went hard against small self hosts years ago rejecting newsletters, and emails.
I went through this with books long ago.
Idk if you're aware, some of the places books are being put are weird as all hell. My son says anime is the same.
I don't get why so many of these admins put their sites in these countries and places that bend over for DMCA claims. I'm assuming it has to be because it's hard to find places that 1) won't hand your personal info to the feds if they come knocking at your door and 2) have good Internet. Usually if you have one, you don't have the other, or if you have both it comes with a HUGE caveat (Russia, China).
Would recommend posting a comment on one of the shows though, since the site has changed domain in the past and it has a lot of clones (with very obnoxious block-ignoring ads). Last time the only good way to find it again had been through one of my disqus comments.
I can understand angy "official" groups going after piracy of their shit localizations (yeah, no one cares), but I am firmly of this belief with regards to copyrighted media: "If customers want it and you don't export it, tough shit if they pirate it." There's the strong case where sites were hosting fansubs of anime that has never been "officially" translated. Such fansubs, regardless of quality) need to be preserved given anime becoming "lost" or never exported by the original IP owners.
If these media companies want to pride their garbage "global" ideologies while maximizing their profits, then they need to massively expand their translation/exportation output. Only socialists and corporatists believe in eliminating competition to increase revenue instead of actually putting forth the capital and effort.
The official releases are dogshit. I want my subs.
The fansubs now just rip it from the official release so...
Yeah that's also a problem that needs to be corrected.
Some do what the official subs do, and "localize" the official subs into proper subs.
In my country if you BUY the official stuff it's often times more expensive than say buying a full box set of a top notch series(for example I can buy Star Trek TNG as a whole for 60, just as an example buying demon slayer season 1(which is 12 episodes) as 3 episodes per box priced each at 22. Pricing is kind of insane. And giving money to Crunchyroll? I'd rather buy the manga, buy merch etc to support instead of giving money to people who not only hate my guts but also use money for BS like high guardian spice.
Why not just torrent?
Because anything that doesn't look like a one-tap phone UI confuses and angers the zoomer.
Try explaining something like Sonarr to them and their eyes glaze over.
This is why normies don't belong on the internet. Sonarr is a godsend compared to what we had before and they don't even realize what they're passing up.
I mean, Deluge is extremely easy to use.
Not heard of Sonarr before. What's the overview?
https://sonarr.tv/
tl;dr: It watches RSS feeds, passes the torrents on to your downloader of choice. Will handle upgrading to higher resolutions if a better upgrade come along along with renaming, etc.. You have it dump into the same directory that Plex/Jellyfin is watching and you've got your own personal streaming service. There's an equivalent for movies: https://radarr.video and also ones for music/books/porn.
Neat! Thank you for the tip, I appreciate it!
Low IQ thinking.
Nah, SD cards are cheap (notice how most phones got rid of them tho). Normies are just that lazy
He's talking about microsd storage for mobile devices, not solid state drive storage (which is wasteful for media drives).
The amount of memory stacked on those tiny things is incredible to an oldfag - you can get half tb storage in a slice of plastic the size of a pinky nail.
You're probably right. I always forget about phone users.
I use one of these when I wanna hook a regular usb device to my phone (it's an android) . as long as your phone supports OTG mode, you can go from that to a usb capable hard drive. (though you may need to plug the hard drive into the wall)
Streamed videos and downloaded torrents take the same amount of bandwidth for the same quality.
If you delete it after, it takes the same amount of space too.
I don't understand why people can't just download episodes with fansubs and keep them archived forever. This is why I refuse to stream stuff.
Same. I’m always confused when people say you can’t pirate this or that because in my experience you always still can.
That said, Crunchyroll and such are pretty cheap and decent, and you can just watch with ads.
Legal risk. Streaming is either legal or a gray area that doesn't get prosecuted. Uploading via torrents on the other hand gets prosecuted.
Then go use an XDCC bot or other direct download. This shit's been around for literally decades now.
For real. I've been downloading anime since the days of dial up and have no intention of stopping anytime soon.
Streaming is 100x more convenient that's why.
Don't have to find compatible sub file, don't have to look for quality, don't have to worry about hardcoded subs, viruses, and the time it would take to download 6 - 30Episode seasons.
Not being about to browse content and watch the first episode to see if you like it, reading people's reactions to episode and general seasons.
Tell me why would you ever torrent if you could stream it?
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Subs are built in on downloaded files just like on streams?
That's true with streams as there is no quality to be found, torrents are clearly labelled as to which aren't shit though
Hardcoded subs haven't been a thing in decades
You're downloading video files
Streams download at approx 1x, literally any other method is faster
Just prioritize the first episode?
Literally what the comments on torrent sites are for
Is this some kind of bizarro troll post I've fallen for?
Unfortunately this site is an offshoot of reddit, so basic technical competence and logical thought are rarer here than you probably expect.
Reddit was always full of web2.0 goons that don't belong.
Everything you said is a flat out lie.
No harcoded subs? Really you know every single anime torrent has 0 hardcoded subs? Erroneous
Viruses can be in video files...so you are actually a retard. Got it.
Quality: even if it says 1080 it isn't all the time
Time: takes longer, what exactly am I wrong about? Moronic
Prioritize the first episode? Still 100x easier STREAMING
you basically just replied with "nuh uh!"
What a low IQ response to objective facts about time and convenience.
Tell me you are not a child without telling me 😂
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generally speaking, you just have to use a halfway decent torrent site (speaking of...is pirate bay still around? it's been a while...), and the comments will tell you before you even touch the magnet link whether it's worth your time or not.
Now, granted, you have to be able to spot legit vs bs comments (hint: you can't just see a tl;dr comment and assume it's legit, you have to actually read through it and gage the info according to the content of the text wall)
I've used torrents for over 20 years and that is just not true for 90% of torrents.
Most of the torrents I dl have zero comments or just "thanks!"
all I'm saying is dont assume a text wall is legit.
for instance, if the comments go into detail about problems with the rip, subs, etc., and there are other comments that corroborate (without being straight up copypasta), you can usually gage.
if the comments (if any) are generally favorable, it's usually a worthwhile torrent.
? Yea obviously but that's rare that people make a wall of text.
What's your point?
I think you dont understand mine...I said most torrents do not have comments.
And you responded with something besides my point so I'm confused. .I never even implied I assume comments are ALL legit. Just that they can be helpful
You don't have to buffer and can seek around instantly.
? You have to find and download a torrent, I just click play and I never buffer....
If you have shitty internet then torrent is superior, if everything works fine then streaming is superior.
What's hard to understand?
And by that they mean Crunchyroll despite how that place started and continues to run. 🙄
Heard it from here and he says the same thing as me, it's a service issue because streaming services have a WORSE UI and service for anime than pirate sites.
The bad thing now is finding new ones again, I was using Aniwave to watch Oshi no Ko so that's going to be a bitch for a day to get an as reliable site.
It's not even the UI at this point. CR for example, got rid of comment sections because they released a yaoi anime and customers were being "homophobic". These people hate you and you don't hate them enough
I think it was even more that it has become a sport on CR to spot the low-effort bargain subs they're farming there lately. One-pass machine translation without so much as a sanity check getting slapped on big series (and many small ones). We were mere days into the embarrassment that was the first episodes of My Deer Friend when they pulled the plug on the whole thing.
Can't notice bad subs when others aren't saying it in the comments to confirm your suspicion.
Which leads to the problem of why aren't the anime rippers seeing this problem? Why haven't fan subs made a return after the stupid stunts CR have pulled? Most anime fans don't want CR subs. I'm sure a third of those know enough Japanese to create subs. Hell, give me the translated texts and I'll create the subs.
Fansubbers only bother if Crunchyroll's crimes are so egregious they can't be ignored, like making Nagatoro say sus. With animes on Hidive you can just politely email them and explain what the localizers are defacing and Hidive goes ahead and fixes it themselves.
Why would anyone subject themselves to clicking on that garbage just to comment on it?
Some of us have fun bullying the faggots
The biggest audience for that trash is women.
Some of my best trolling was on fmovies.to (now dead)
Original release Crunchyroll, back when it hosted the same fansubs and pirated anime as everyone else, famously had completely fucked audio on everything. And rarely could you get it above 480p on most shows despite Youtube uploads usually having better than that.
The fact that it managed to become the "face" of anime streaming just shows that if you cater to pedos hard enough and have the money anything is possible.
So common that piracy is due to quality of service from paid services
Not just anime. Some of the biggest general film and TV streaming sites have gone down in the past few days as well. Fmovies and all of its related sites went down a couple months ago, and now there's another wave.
It's near impossible to find TV and movie streaming websites now. I had a bunch bookmarked, all gone.
Search engines and articles with lists of recommendations are pages and pages of website that host nothing you are looking for.
That was, untill I tried searching with Yandex, which still gives useful results for streaming.
r/piracy has a megathread with updated links. They're usually pretty good.
How does that place stay unbanned? I thought reddit cracked down on that stuff.
I just had to go take a gander at r/piracy over on feddit. There's some funny shit on there right now if you're interested.
Fav comment so far is "I'll fucking force myself to read books before I subscribe to your shitty overpriced streaming service."
Overpriced and edited for modern audiences
That sucks, there's a boatload of old anime that no one (but me) cares about that I could find on 9anime.to/Aniwave.to.
I want the list now, just for curiosity of what's out there that I've overlooked.
Kiss anime had all the old obscure titles I loved.
80s anime was peak.
Eventually they will turn up again.
yeah. fan subs = options. they dont want options that are different (often times more faithful) than netflix/amazon subs and dubs.
i really dont mind reading sub notes too.
Ah, bummer.
https://9animetv.to/ still works.
I don't even use an account on Youtube :D
I clicked half a dozen random titles from random genres I found in the genre menu. They all worked and loaded fast.
The 'fake clones' still being around shows how easy a problem this is to solve and how this really should be an unwinnable battle for the rights holders, if there's any assertiveness in the community. Reason being, all the files are still hosted on 3rd party uploaders and the links are presumably in some database or xml or whatever. The fake sites are just pointing to the same files the original used to. There's hundreds of thousands of individual uploads to deal with. That takedown battle takes a lot of effort and is a digital forever-war, so copyright attack dogs go to the links aggregator which is 9anime. Which is a site that can always be replaced, even if it's with what was the inferior choice up until now, but that 'inferiority' becomes a 'glass missing some water' vs 'glass almost 100% full' perspective question. Ofc those links need maintaining in the longer term, so the sooner a trustworthy steward takes over the intermediary role, the better...
Yeah it's sad for the zoomies who are more concerned about their anime library and disqus comments or whatever, but tbh it was arguably unwise to make any kind of personal profile even on the original 9anime, given what just happened.
Praise the sketchy russian copied version of the websites!
Strictly speaking, they're simply copyright infringing Aniwave, it's pure pirate-on-pirate action. If you steal from a thief, you did not steal from the original owner of the object, and we know how much these companies like to pretend their "digital licenses" are real-world physical limited objects.
Can't get competition get in their anime takeover. You must support their official pozzed localizations if you want anime, capiche, chud?
It's server side. Unless they use a country that says fuck you to US laws. For a long time flies have been checked. Self serving doesn't solve everything because everything at the address would be included in the warrent. Big tech went hard against small self hosts years ago rejecting newsletters, and emails.
I went through this with books long ago.
Idk if you're aware, some of the places books are being put are weird as all hell. My son says anime is the same.
I don't get why so many of these admins put their sites in these countries and places that bend over for DMCA claims. I'm assuming it has to be because it's hard to find places that 1) won't hand your personal info to the feds if they come knocking at your door and 2) have good Internet. Usually if you have one, you don't have the other, or if you have both it comes with a HUGE caveat (Russia, China).
Yeah it's very annoying. AniWave had very convinient account features to follow ongoing animes, and basically everything was on it.
HiAnime has the stuff I was currently watching so I'll use it. It seems to have the same features Aniwave had to keep track of series.
Hoping it's not taken down too.
https://files.catbox.moe/6ufurk.png
as long as nyaa is alive piracy will live on
Gogoanime is pretty solid.
Would recommend posting a comment on one of the shows though, since the site has changed domain in the past and it has a lot of clones (with very obnoxious block-ignoring ads). Last time the only good way to find it again had been through one of my disqus comments.
The more you talk about an unofficial server, the more likely it is to be shut down.
"Keep it secret. Keep it safe."
I can understand angy "official" groups going after piracy of their shit localizations (yeah, no one cares), but I am firmly of this belief with regards to copyrighted media: "If customers want it and you don't export it, tough shit if they pirate it." There's the strong case where sites were hosting fansubs of anime that has never been "officially" translated. Such fansubs, regardless of quality) need to be preserved given anime becoming "lost" or never exported by the original IP owners.
If these media companies want to pride their garbage "global" ideologies while maximizing their profits, then they need to massively expand their translation/exportation output. Only socialists and corporatists believe in eliminating competition to increase revenue instead of actually putting forth the capital and effort.
>Streaming sites
Imagine streaming anime. These people have been laughed at for over a decade. Gatekeeping needs to be harsher
I've watched 10x more anime from streaming sites than torrents and I've torrented for 20 years.
Streaming is the ultimate convenience for anime lovers objectively.
But only with a proper websit.