"At Crunchyroll, we prioritize creating a safe and respectful community environment. To maintain this standard, we are removing all existing user-generated content, including comments, across all our platforms and experiences."


lol. basically the customers are the enemies.

@grillchen CR doing more corporate speak gotta love that.

@grillchen

Can't art be presented without user comments?

@magicalthinking sure but they just dont wanna pay for moderators.

without comments or reviews u have no community anymore.

last year they enforced DRM. AI translations, and now this.

@grillchen

we prioritize creating a safe and respectful community environment
we are removing all existing user-generated content

I guess removing the community makes for a safe and respectful community environment

@volpeon @grillchen spoiler: There is no community environment anymore. But tbh moderating that stuff is a miserable job tbh. Lots of hate, lots of shit these days. Your three options are to do nothing, get many many moderators ( 💸 ) or just not bother with comments at all (very cheap and easy!)

@stefan @volpeon i assume they just dont wanna punish paying accoiunts when they misbehave.

well they lost me when sony took over and they enforced drm

@grillchen I dunno about that. I thinks its really more about toxic comments and the image it displays.

And yes keeping their revenue is likely also a thing.

As for DRM... Its a battle we lost a long time ago sadly.

I still think that it is important to support the industry where feasable. Also I don't watch all that much anime anymore. It kinda does not fit in. there is 2 shows I might watch this season. But by now I maybe watch the one free episode see if it is something for me and then grab the source-material where possible.

If I am really interested I might wait for the season to finish book a month of crunchy and watch it.

It is also super trivial to downloaf the anime with an active sub as well. I still want to give some money to the industry. Better than giving it to pirates....

Though tbh thats more of a morale question at that point...

@grillchen I am though still really sad Sony/CR folded wakanim. I loved their service. Treating me fairly. Even though it was more expensive...

@stefan
>It is also super trivial to downloaf the anime with an active sub as well.

doesnt it only work on android and IOS?

drm was just introduced last year.

@grillchen I am speaking of more ... interesting downloaders lol. Basically illegal ones.

@grillchen Oh interesting the downloader went defunct after the introduction of the DRM. Naruhodo.

@grillchen There is like forks creeping up as well. Sorry for the rather disjointed posts

@stefan ah yeah. same with youtube dl or kodi...

@grillchen from sonys perspective this likely made sense since most pirate-sites would just download and re-upload the official episodes (yay double compression)

But yeah all it really does is hurting your real customers. But at this point most just won't care anymore.

@stefan pirate sites... like crunchy roll 10 years ago or so...

as long as capture cards exists and stuff like that it is security theatre.

@grillchen oh yeah the whole history of CR is not lost on me either.

Using cature cards is atleast shitty since (I think) you can really only record at 1x speed which makes it pretty unviable for a business tbh. Maybe I am wrong though.

@felifeli i rarely found something useful there. it is just the whole decline of CR in general... and this means they gave up on improving their community and reviews.

@grillchen >as long as capture cards exists and stuff like that it is security theatre.
It's nothing to do with security - it's about attacking the customers in attempt to forbid them from performing operations on video files like timeshifting, making a backup, review and parody - which are legal to do if done in a very limited way.

No matter what digital handcuffs are applied, someone will always be able to point a video camera at the screen and share a copy of the resulting video.

@Suiseiseki yes. especially since a private copy (without sharing it with anyone) is 100% legal and your right here in germany. u are just not allowed to break DRM. but filming the screen, is legal

@grillchen The concept of not legally being able to "break" "technical protection methods", but legally being able to film the screen really makes no sense to me.

The former usually consists of merely pointing a software "recorder" at relevant bytes that contain the video stream while positioning it to not "see" obfuscation bytes, while the latter is pointing a recorder at the screen, positioning it to not see the space around the screen.

@Suiseiseki i think it isnt about copyright as much as hacking a mechanism designed to secure something. like cracking someone elses password.

it is dumb

@grillchen >as much as hacking a mechanism designed to secure something. like cracking someone elses password.
Breaking a mechanism designed to secure something is cracking - sometimes such cracking requires playful cleverness and requires hacking too, but that often isn't the case.

Digital handcuffs consists of sabotaging things rather than securing them - it isn't like cracking someone else's password, as it's using your computer, to download a video file that you paid for.

@Suiseiseki i agree. but sadly they dont sell u videos but a license to use their perverted systems...


it is fully legal to record all songs in the radio btw