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NEWS: Piracy Anime, Manga Sites KissAnime, KissManga Shut Down

Also To all of you mentioning torrents. They really arent a very good option for everyone and you need to quickly realize that and while may not be as dangerous as kissanime became it also carries it's own risks. May eventually have to search out another site eventually. There were some shows I had on a watchlist that weren't available anywhere to watch.

I'd like to own the Vampire Princess Miyu TV series, but I'm not paying $150+ for a brand new DVD set

Utsuro no Hako wrote:

Scion Drake wrote: 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. Okay, but do you then buy a copy of the Japanese version so the artists get money? You can do it through Bookwalker for less than $5 for most manga. If not, you're just a leech.

The problem with BOOK☆WALKER is their absolutely draconian approach to DRM.

Buy Blu-Rays/DVDs, FFS. You can get some pretty good deals at Right Stuf, provided the title’s in stock. For everything else, there are other ways that don’t give money to crooks.

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?

Funimation tried that by trying to take 197 "currently unknown users" to court in one giant case. We know how that went.

I haven't used one of these kinds of sites for nearly a decade, since everything gets legally streamed these days.

Lord Vaultman wrote:

Also To all of you mentioning torrents. They really arent a very good option for everyone and you need to quickly realize that and while may not be as dangerous as kissanime became it also carries it's own risks. May eventually have to search out another site eventually. There were some shows I had on a watchlist that weren't available anywhere to watch.

I began torrenting shows in the mid 2000's before the days of legal streaming. I still torrent the occasional obscure show like the 2000 Madhouse adaptation of Tezuka's Hidamari no Ki. I also torrent some Netflix exclusives like Violet Evergarden or Carole & Tuesday because I'm a Netflix subscriber but have no interest in waiting for them to bundle up episodes. Otherwise I watch everything on legal streaming sites.

That said, I have no idea what those "risks" you refer to are. Maybe it's because I run Linux everywhere but not once have I had a computer problem that traces back to a torrented download. I've gotten one notice from an ISP in my life, and it was because I downloaded an episode of a popular live-action show. I've had three ISPs in this period; not one of them ever said anything about downloading anime.

Depends on what you are trying to be safer from. If you are trying to protect your computer, you are probably right. But if you are trying protect your bank account from severely harsh fines and penalities, you are probably wrong. When you download a torrent, you also become an uploader too, and that is where they nail you to the earth. They haven't done it in awhile, since the mentioned Funimation attacks, but you never know.

How did it go down, actually. I seem to remember Funimation taking everybody to court who didn't pay the enormous fines. Those that fought had to pay their legal fees too, along with the fines and court fees.
It was never intended to end piracy, but rather make everyone think twice about torrenting Funimation titles, and possible Funimation titles.

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.