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We just lost one of, if not THE biggest anime piracy site, AniWave...... along with FMovies....
I'm lokey so passionate about piracy, as I think it's one of the most important things in terms of media preservation and archival. I also believe it plays an important role in giving students, broke bitches, and everyone else access to media they otherwise would not be able to get. Whether that media is pure entertainment or education matters not.
God.... i'm genuinely so upset thinking about all the anime, movies, shows, etc. we've just lost forever.... How much of that media is now 'lost media'?
This is the message AniWave currently has on their site for those curious...
Hi,
You know, it has been a long journey since Aniwave (9Anime) first appeared. Creating better products that provide an improved user experience and fostering competition to drive the market to enhance products is something we are very happy about. Now that everything has improved… it is also time for us to say goodbye...It is difficult to part with something we have invested so much effort and passion into, but it is something we need to do. Thank you for standing by and supporting us throughout this time!Every game must have an end...and life is about experiences. Every mistake teaches us lessons that help us grow.
If possible, please use legal paid services. It’s something we should do to show our respect for creators and content producers.
Good bye!
They attached the music video for "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa at the end.
I'm just so upset and pissed.
The people responsible for this bullshit seem to be ACE (Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment). They collaborated with Vietnamese police to shut down the piracy ring.
ACE chairman (who is also the MPA/Motion Picture Association CEO) cited this bullshit as, “a stunning victory for casts, crews, writers, directors, studios, and the creative community across the globe”, but that's just corporate talk- let me translate:
"a stunning victory for my paycheck!"
Never mind the fact that piracy doesn't hurt sales nearly as much as these CEOs would have you believe....
Also, this bitch is in charge of Netflix. We know you treat your creatives over there like shit. Ugh fuck these rich assholes. All talk and talk and more talk and wow they keep talking....
Anyway, I could rant forever, but I won't do that here lol.
Last message I want to get out there...
Download everything.
Buy physical media.
Share physical media.
Support online archives.
Support your local library's archives.
Pirate games, books, tv shows, movies, anime, music, historical documents, journals, history, educational resources, art, etc.
My dad still has his old iPod and all the music he downloaded onto it. He may have the last remaining copies of songs he recorded right off the radio when he was a teen/young adult. My dad is a musician who has made many songs and likely preserved even more.
My local library has newspapers from the 1700s that are local to the area. My dad uncovered documents detailing the otherwise lost history of the church and is working to preserve them (and maybe give scans to the library).
Media preservation starts with YOU.
Hold onto the things that you love, and share them.
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orchestralchaos
I'm a supporter of archival efforts. Our media shouldn't be lost to time. I pirate basically everything imaginable from books, to textbooks, to scientific articles, entertainment (IPTV, video games, movies, etc.)
Corporate greed is always interfering with archival projects. I'm still pissed off about what happened to Vimms Lair and what is currently happening with the internet archive in court.
One of my favorite projects is project Gutenberg, it makes copyright free books digital. It's an amazing resource. I can see impoverished schools using this website to give students books.
It's always a sad day when an illegal streaming service is taken down, as an anime fan lots of the obscure stuff just isn't on Crunchyroll. I have to rely on piracy.
Scientific researchers also pirate all the time. They use scihub cause a research paper can be like $30 a pop.
I absolutely fucking cheer on people who fight against access to information being restricted by doing based stuff like leaking a universities entire digital archive.
Side note: You can never have too much storage. My philosophy is if you find something you like you should download it cause it's probably gonna be gone someday. Physical media is the only way to prevent them from taking away things you love. But physical media is becoming a relic of past. We're slowly moving to a digital only world.
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