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BigOnAnime
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Scion Drake
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Not every series gets localized. Some of the manga I read are obscure enough that none of the major publishers are licensing them, forcing me to search for these sites to actually be able to read the stuff. |
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BigOnAnime
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Albion Hero
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Ok, by "everything gets legally streamed now" I meant "Everything people care about is legally simulcast now". Better? Fine, you have random 25+ year old OVAs you can't get on legal streams, or kids shows aimed at 5 year olds nobody bothers to pick up for legal stream. You got me there. 95% of anime fans don't care about those, people care about watching the new streaming shows or popular shonens and legal streams have you covered there.
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Hikifroggy
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Almost Everyone used Kissanime or third party sites at one point in there life. These days i use Netflix Hulu,etc
But lot of anime/Manga are out of print (expensive as heck to buy) or license expire (no Streaming service) or manga/Anime that never get localized/translated to the west... So i understand why some people look for alternatives... |
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FangGang
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It’s for the best, I guess. Didn’t that website have a lot of ads attached to it?
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Kougeru
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You can't act on a law that isn't actually in effect. They're just making an excuse
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BigOnAnime
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Jinbeizaki
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People doesn't seem to realize how those websites were the Netflix of the past. Now almost every shows are steamed but for those of us old enough to remember how HARD it was to find anime that wasn't Bleach or Naruto for instance, those websites were good enough.
Also a point no one seem to mention here but from my personal experience it was better to watch anime online than downloading it. Maybe you had amazing internet and big enough drive to stock them/a laptop good enough to do that but for me it was almost impossible/would take forever to download anime that could be in Kissanime. So it was easier to wait like 10 minutes to let the episode load and watch it. True now I hadn't been to those kind of websites for almost a decade BUT I'm still grateful that those websites existed at one point allowing people to discover more anime/manga. |
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Florete
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Good. If people want to pirate, I won't judge them - I did it plenty back in the day myself. But if you're going to pirate, at least have half a brain about it and don't use these sites. You're giving profit to thieves for quality that is worse than either free & legal streams or torrenting and possibly putting your own security at risk.
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Blanchimont
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That doesn't make sense, If you're streaming, you're still downloading it(albeit temporarily). Might make sense if it's something long like a movie so you can begin watching it before the whole thing has downloaded. But then, you can do that with torrents nowadays too... |
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Yuvelir
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On top of that, only USA gets the "almost everything" treatment. In my country most streamers don't operate and the ones that do don't carry even half of their American catalogue. Out of the dozen series I'm watching this season, the ones I can watch legally are exactly two (and even if I have legal access to them I torrent them anyway since it's more convenient).
How far back are we talking? By 2005 I was already torrenting everything I watched in my bog-standard 2003 PC. I downloaded a series (or some episodes if it was something long like Naruto), watched it and then either deleted it or burned it into CDs. Torrenting a full cour of anime, even back then, wouldn't take more than two hours. Before that there was emule but THAT was indeed godawful and worse than streaming. |
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Albion Hero
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I honestly never understood the point of these illegal streaming sites if you had to pirate. Why wouldn't people just go for torrents, which is safer, better quality, and you can have access to the files without the internet and on multiple devices? Not that I'd advocate for piracy, but it just seems a far way better way to do it if you had to. Illegal streaming sites just seem to be asking for viruses, wanting low quality and lack of convenience. A decade ago before everything (that mattered) was streamed, torrents were the way I went.
I never had any idea that places like KissAnime were so much bigger than torrents until I saw the post earlier saying that only 80k people torrented a popular episode vs millions of views on KissAnime. Wow. Last edited by Albion Hero on Sun Aug 16, 2020 7:45 am; edited 2 times in total |
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OrangeRafi
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I've heard of them but never really used then when I was pirating anime. It was more convenient and safer for me back then to download torrent from fansub groups.
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zunderdog24
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Convenience. Someone already found the anime, downloaded it and had it queued, ready for someone to watch. |
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