03 April 2024

RIP Funimation

Funimation has merged with CrunchyRoll.

Funimation "sold" content to its members.

Those members may or may not get access to the content they've paid for.

This just underscores that if you don't have a local copy, you don't own shit.

Posted by Angus McThag at 18:27
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  1. MrGarabaldi03 April, 2024 18:44

    Hey Angus,

    Crap, there went my streaming of "Space Battleship Yamato"

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  2. Paul Chappell03 April, 2024 19:23

    One of the reasons I have trust issues with streaming... Used to stream an old Dire Straits album on Amazon, but they disappeared it a few months ago... I mean they'll SELL it to me again, I have an ancient tape but went to EBay for a CD copy...

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  3. Beans03 April, 2024 19:48

    It has yet to be determined what animes will 'join' Crunchyroll.

    As to this surprising me, not a bit. Back in the day, a great place for new music was MP3.com, which, for a minimal amount of money, you bought rights to a whole bunch of music 'forever'. Then it changed to per piece 'forever' per time downloaded. Then it changed to 'per piece per time listened' and huge catalogs of 'purchased music' disappeared from people's accounts.

    My wife fortunately downloaded a lot from her account. She was ill for a while right when they destroyed the catalogs, so she lost quite a lot of music that she 'purchased,' but she had gotten the best stuff first.

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    1. Angus McThag03 April, 2024 19:56

      iTunes has disappeared some purchases I made. I'd counted on being able to download them again if I had a failure of some kind and discovered their absence when I was setting up a new machine and was planning on just downloading from the store.

      Lots of people aren't bothering to download their content from iTunes too. They just stream it.

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  4. Beans03 April, 2024 19:48

    As to Crunchyroll, it works. There may be some issues with it, but so far you can still access everything you bookmarked and it's not a bad price.

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  5. Tim D03 April, 2024 20:20

    also Crunchyroll bought one of the biggest anime distributors in the US, Rightstuf. Just to make things worse who owns Crunchyroll? .... Sony, the folks who got slammed for almost deleting alot of purchased content from peoples accounts.

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