@EposVox Streaming is transient for me: if I expect to come back to it later, I want DRM-free local files in a well supported format, not just a stream.

I buy a lot of music in downloadable digital format, and I would happily pay for video from licenced distributors—but no such services exist as far as I know (for anime, movies or Western TV).

Physical makes no sense for me, it costs more and is worse for the environment and costs *me* time to rip to file for my digital library...

@EposVox Thereby justifying any future piracy I may need to perform to get the content I've already paid for.

Way to go, Crunchyroll! Encouraging piracy and discouraging spending on digital products in one fell swoop.

@EposVox

:elsewhere:

@EposVox
> "If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing"

(quote author: Tyler James Hill,
I found it here: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill )

@EposVox If buying isn't owning then pirating is not stealing.

The music industry learned this and the majority of music can be bought and downloaded in a common format without any DRM attached to it. Coincidentally it's been a decade since I last pirated music.

@EposVox personally, if one can't get a permanent, unrevokable and DRM-free license if not physical copy for a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory price than it should be not just legal to pirate it, but the licensees that don't provide it should be forced to pay the pirates for hosting said contents as if they were a big CDN like Akamai!

The sheer fact that said corporations are even allowed to sue people for damages should not exist, because piracy is almost always self-inflicted!

Basically #Sony got away with #stealing what people bought and since #WhatWeAllowIsWhatWillContinue applies to the masses, other follow suit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krXH8jXefqE

#ImageDescription and #LinkToSource are missing tho...
#plzfix

@EposVox as an additive: even if you didn’t used funimation’s services but you still used crunchyroll, you are also paying 2x more on a yearly basis plan (50 > 100 a year) starting next year.

absolute chaos.

@EposVox

While I agree it's a shit move on their part, they edited it after your screenshot. Looks like it's just the streaming copies of physical media that's being lost, which isn't quite the same as fully losing your purchase.