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

cookiemanstah wrote:

Now, how will they approach in purging torrenting?

Its futile. Illegal streaming aggregation sites have much more traffic than torrent sites. When K***anime trended on Twitter yesterday, a lot of them don't seem to know that they can torrent anime instead of going to those shady sites and also a lot of them cannot seem to distinguish pirate sites from legit (i.e. I've seen a tweet stating that Animelab is one of the alternatives to K***anime in addition to several shady sites). Not sure if data supports my claim though.

I haven't used one of these kinds of sites for nearly a decade, since everything gets legally streamed these days. They really need to go harder to take down these sites because theres really no reason for people to be dealing with these sketchy sites full of malware and other dangers when you can easily just pop up Crunchyroll or Funi on your smart tv these days.

Ok you're right, some random kids anime might not get streamed but even Precure is now. Its been years since anything I actually want to watch, and I watch around 10 shows a season, wasn't legally streamed somewhere.

It’s for the best, I guess. Didn’t that website have a lot of ads attached to 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.

Albion Hero wrote:

everything gets legally streamed these days.

no no no no that is not true at all, by any stretch of the imagination. On top of how much isn't legally streamed, you have to worry about licensing rights expiring.

This encourages buying physically, but the prices are insane.

All that is what encourages anime fans to do evil.

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.

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 them 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.

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.